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To: Suma who wrote (27224)	1/7/2005 9:58:36 AM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Suma, the theoretical utility of such devices would be great. The practical application, however, has been lagging greatly. The MedicAlert bracelets are perhaps the first tangible example of this, although I still question how the data gets there and how it is accessed. In an emergency the data would need to be totally open to the caretakers, so a security device is out of the question in this case(where the bearer may be unconscious). From a medical professional's point of view a transferrable medical database for each patient would be a useful tool in this day and age where we still rely heavily on faxed paper copies and little information is directly transferrable due to the lack of a common standard of file formats and filing. This is even more important in a day and age where people seem to change healthcare providers every two or three years depending on premiums. Aus