A veteran paramedic has developed a system for the average person to maintain a personal, paperless, and portable medical profile. 

Through the ‘Information Superhighway’, the internet, profiles are created by members and can be accessed worldwide by Healthcare Providers in emergencies or sudden illnesses.  The end result being; urgent medical care with less delay caused by unknown, lost, or destroyed information.  

Fifteen-year paramedic and founder of www.MedicFile.net, Michael Mathis has seen his share of emergencies over the years.  Being first on the scene in a lot of cases, and also being involved in the transport of Katrina survivors, he quickly learned that in a time of crisis, gathering essential medical information from a patient or a family member can be a very difficult and sometimes an impossible task.  Unconscious, severely injured and in pain, confused or disoriented, or being upset are just a few reasons a patient or family member may not be able to effectively communicate with medical personnel. 

Precious and potentially life saving seconds are wasted when a ‘from the beginning’ approach must be taken to assess and treat a patient.  In many cases medical personnel must perform tests, which can be time consuming, to determine a course of treatment due to information such as medical conditions and history not being readily available.

MedicFile.net has been under development since late 2005 and went live last month.  Michael Mathis, site creator stated, “My goal in creating Medicfile.net was to give people a way to put all of their pertinent medical information on a secure website that can be updated as their medical history changes. With the technology that we have today every physician and hospital has access to the internet and with Medicfile.net this is the future for all of us to keep our vital medical information with us at all times.

With the help of the web designer who created this website and those who help run it your medical information is at the fingertips of all physicians and hospitals.” (Taken from http://www.medicfile.net/)