MediKey™ - Personal Medical History

MediKey™ is a consumer healthcare application that empowers consumers with a patient-carried personal medical profile.

MediKey™ is an enhancement of the "patient reported" history-taking procedure, which studies have shown to be repetitive, labor intensive, and unreliable. On a one-time basis, relevant patient details are collected in "structured" format; patient demographics, allergies, medications with strength and dose, diagnoses, disorders, surgeries, etc. Using specially developed information theory technology, MediKey™ compresses this into a 50-100 character alphanumeric code which is easily updatable. This is then laser printed onto a small sticker which may be affixed to an insurance card, employee ID card or driver's license.

The MediKey™ code actually contains the medical profile; however, for reasons of confidentiality, it is encrypted, password protected, and anonymous. Sensitive patient records databases are not required. At any point of need, the personal profile is re-created instantly by dictating the MediKey™ code/password over a telephone, via a Web browser, or from a local PC to a public copy of the MediKey™ "translater" program.

MediKey™ utilizes standard office equipment and operates alongside paper-based EMR environments. The MediKey™ profile will enhance healthcare encounters, pharmacy, triage, online physician's services, and online access to healthcare information resources.

MediKey™ was at the Showcase and Games in Washington, DC on April 28, 1998, and Philadelphia, PA from May 27-28, 1998.

Contact information:

Lawrence E. Feinberg
RSI Medical Research, Inc.
2882 Dominique Drive
Galveston, TX 77551

E-Mail: rsimed@sprynet.com
Web:

http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/confrnce/partnr98/Showcase/Medikey.htm