SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING PERSON'S MEDICAL HISTORY IN PORTABLE MEMORY DEVICE

• US 20080015905A1
• Filed: 07/18/2007
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LMG 3 Marketing and Development Corporation
• Original Assignee: LMG 3 Marketing and Development Corporation
• Inventors: Guinta, Robert, Lubell, Michael, Moran, Albert
• Granted Patent: US 8,195,480 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD

Abstract

A system includes a portable, hand carried nonvolatile memory device in which a person maintains his or her medical history. The portable memory device includes a program, executable by a general computer, for storing medical records in a secure database in the portable memory device, updating the medical records in the secure database, and providing access to the medical records in the secure database. The system further includes a method for recovering that person'"'"'s medical history in the event of loss, destruction, or damage of the device, including the steps of: maintaining a backup copy of the secure database externally to the device, which backup copy is accessible via the Internet computer; accessing the backup copy via the Internet; copying the accessed backup copy to a replacement device, which replacement device also includes the program or an updated version of the program.

Claims

1. In a system in which a person maintains his or her medical history in a portable, hand carried nonvolatile memory device comprising machine-readable memory having machine-executable instructions constituting a program executable by a general computer for (i) storing medical records in a secure database in the machine-readable memory of the portable, hand carried memory device, (ii) updating the medical records in the secure database in the machine-readable memory of the portable, hand carried memory device, and (iii) providing access to the medical records in the secure database in the machine-readable memory of the portable, hand carried memory device, a method for recovering that person'"'"'s medical history in the event of loss, destruction, or damage of the device, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) maintaining a backup copy of the secure database externally to the device, which backup copy is accessible via the Internet computer;

(b) accessing the backup copy via the Internet;

(c) copying the accessed backup copy to a replacement device, which replacement device includes a program executable by a general computer for (i) storing medical records in a secure database in the machine-readable memory of the portable, hand carried memory device, (ii) updating the medical records in the secure database in the machine-readable memory of the portable, hand carried memory device, and (iii) providing access to the medical records in the secure database in the machine-readable memory of the portable, hand carried memory device;

(d) wherein said steps (b) and (c) are performed using a general computer.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the person—

whose medical history is recorded, updated, and accessed—

carries the replacement device on his or her person.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the secure database and the backup copy of the secure database is encrypted.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the secure database and the backup copy of the secure database includes information pertinent to the treatment of the person, comprising:

(a) personal information including name, address, phone, and emergency contact information;

(b) emergency medical information including medical alerts, blood type, allergies

(c) current medical information including primary physician contact, medical conditions, medications, and treatments;

(d) historical medical information including a log of medical office visits, physicians, images from medical scans, a log of vital statistics, immunizations, and surgeries; and

(e) insurance information including referral letters.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a USB memory device, a flash memory device, or a memory stick;

and wherein the replacement device comprises a USB memory device, a flash memory device, or a memory stick.