| How do you feel, is not it will be nice that you | | | | unconscious and unaccompanied. The nurses have |
| have a health assistant to give you a reminder | | | | to look for a patient's wallet hoping to gather |
| about perhaps a blood sugar level test or any | | | | some information which will tell them about the |
| other health related test that you have to | | | | patient's medications, health conditions or at least |
| undergo within a month or a year. Isn't it will be | | | | a phone number. Many patients have contact |
| nice if there is an alert emergency record about | | | | lenses and the doctors and nurses in lack of any |
| your personal health and you do not have to | | | | proper information are totally unaware of the fact |
| remember all the records and history of your | | | | and many patients ended with scratched corneas. |
| health before visiting your doctor for the second | | | | Even some patients have to loose their life in lack |
| check up. This help can be at your fingertips in | | | | of any medical records. I still remember one of |
| the form of a computerized personal health | | | | my friend who has an accident, has been given |
| record, where you can store all health care | | | | blood thinners in the ER. The doctors are totally |
| information in one place. Now while visiting a | | | | unaware of the fact that the patient is taking |
| doctor you do not have to arrange your files and | | | | Vitamin K which has a terrible interaction with |
| prescriptions and test history just with a few | | | | blood thinners and he has to loose his life only in |
| keystrokes, you can electronically send | | | | lack of a personal health record. |
| information to the provider or can take a copy | | | | According to the American Health Information |
| with you. | | | | Management Association, keeping a personal |
| It is very essential for a doctor to know what | | | | health record is important even when you're not |
| medicines a patient is in taking and what other | | | | in an emergency situation. Most of the times while |
| health related problems he has before doing any | | | | going to a doctor do not remember to tell him |
| emergency treatment to him. You will be stunned | | | | about every nook and corner of our health |
| to know that over 1.5 million of patients each | | | | history. Store all your detailed health records, |
| year are hurt by taking the wrong medicine or | | | | including all the information that you will need, is it |
| dosage. And it is believed now that many errors | | | | for visiting a doctor or for an emergency. Keep a |
| can be avoided if a proper information is provided. | | | | track of your health from now in your computer |
| But do not ever confuse a personal health record | | | | and keep a hard copy of it in your car also for |
| with an electronic health record which are created | | | | emergency. Several organizations are now |
| and controlled by hospitals and doctors for their | | | | offering various ways to organize and store a |
| own use. | | | | personal health record Remember a simple piece |
| Just imagine your close one has met with an | | | | of paper might bring a lot of difference between |
| accident and he has been carried to the hospital | | | | life and death. |