Inventor Touts New Medical Bracelet
A Chandler man has a patent pending for a medical bracelet with a memory card that he says could save paperwork and even lives.
The inventor, Jeff Hexamer, says the card will contain a person’s photo, medical history, insurance information, blood type, medications, past surgeries, X-rays, emergency contacts and whether the patient is an organ donor.
A patient entering a hospital would be saved a lot of paperwork by simply giving an admissions clerk the memory card, he said.
“And a doctor can put prescriptions on it, and you take it to the pharmacy, where they put it in the computer and fill a prescription off that,” Hexamer said.
He calls his invention TAMI, for Total Access Medical Information.
He has spent four years and close to $15,000 perfecting the device.
He got the idea for the bracelet because as a diabetic, he has had a lot of treatment and sees the medical profession’s inefficiencies.
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Jaclyn on May 20th, 2009 7:23 am
I absolutely love this idea. As a person who has a few illnesses myself and is on constant medication and has a history of quite a few surgeries, i can not explain how much of a pain it is to constantly refill out all that crap everytime i am asked about it. it’s a hassle like you would not believe, and even though they can easily ask for my records to be transferred, they don’t because it’s cheaper and or easier/faster for them to make you refill out all this info every time!
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