Medical Locket has a caduceus on the front and a Red Cross on the flash drive. Contains a 2GB USB flash drive which enables the user to easily store and maintain a more complete and up to date medical history, as well as contact information of loved ones.
Medical records are kept safe and private inside the locket but information can be accessed easily by plugging in the detachable USB. The nickel-plated drive itself can be engraved (by a jeweler) with the user’s most essential information, readily available to medical professionals or Good Samaritans in an emergency. This necklace is the perfect mix of old and new, analog and digital, and makes a necessary everyday experience enjoyable.
10% of proceeds from the sale of this work is donated to RxArt.
Product Specs
Dimensions: 1.25" x .5" x .75"
Materials: 24k satin gold plated brass and a silver plated USB. Gold Plated Chain Lobster clasp.
My PCP gives me a computer disc that is about half the size of a normal CD type. He loads my information online, and I can go to a secure site and upload test results, etc. on it. It fits nicely in my wallet. I always carry it.
However, I offered it to my endo when I changed doctors, and he looked at me like I was crazy. He was so uninterested in that. I had hard copies sent to him.
Just IMHO... 2 Gigabytes is "War and Peace" like 400 thousand times over. Also known as "Too much information".
What a paramedic needs to know about a diabetic 90% of the time: "Diabetic that uses insulin". In the past this was encoded as "Juvenile Diabetes" or "Insulin Dependent Diabetes" today we might call it "Type 1" but IMHO since many T2's are using insulin... perhaps "Insulin Dependent Diabetes" is most appropriate in my head. And is not 2 Gigabytes but is 27 bytes :-)
I agree, I don't think it's necessary to have your entire medical records with you at all times ... plus, I'd be concerned about losing it and whomever finds it having access to all those medical records.
Paramedics and emergency doctors really only need to know about the stuff that is immediately life-threatening or that might otherwise affect your immediate care. Unless they are trying to diagnose a mysterious problem, I don't think most care about having access to an entire medical record. That's more for GPs and other non-emergency doctors to handle rather than hospitals.
I travel overseas a lot and having the disc just makes me more comfortable--not for an EMT, but in case I am hospitalized, unable to repond, etc. There is information available.
Sounds cool and all but I'm wondering how many EMTs or emergency rooms would refuse to insert an unknown flash drive into their computer. The possibiliy of a virus might make some think twice.
I saw a similar product not too long ago after ordering a few IDs for myself. This one has password protection for your files. Not sure the size of the drive itself and I can't find it listed on the site. It's also not as fancy as the one above since this one is just stainless steel. Not a bad concept though.
