Medics create smart wearable bands with complete medical profiles

By Guest Column Israel21c —— Bio and Archives June 3, 2015

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When Elly Gorodetzer’s mother fell off an escalator in the mall, first responders noticed the MyMDband on her wrist and scanned its QR code to access her medical profile, at the same time automatically alerting her loved ones of the incident’s location.

No doubt she’s grateful to her son Elly and grandson Gidon for inventing MyMDband in the first place. “We assembled a team of medical professionals, technology experts and patients to come up with a solution to one of the most critical problems in emergency medicine: Lack of access to a patient’s medical information,” explains Gidon Rogers, a computer professional and a volunteer medic for Israel’s Magen David Adom first-response network. MyMDband recently went on the market in eight countries. The waterproof, maintenance-free, lifetime-guaranteed silicon band with a laser-engraved QR code on a stainless-steel buckle displays all the data needed immediately after it’s scanned: prior medical conditions, current medications, allergies, vaccinations; even the patient’s last EKG. More...