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August 27, 2006
BehindTheMedspeak: MediStick — 'Are you prepared for a medical emergency?'
It's a USB drive that stores your medical history in five languages.
$57.
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I won't say which hospital i'm at, but it's in the top ten in US news and world report. None of our computers allow USB drives either. In the anesthesia dept. we have computers that can read them, but I'm sure they don't down in the ER.
Posted by: aaron | Aug 30, 2006 1:56:06 PM
Dunno about the States, but IIRC the PCs in the NHS generally don't allow portable drives to be connected. This is partly to keep viruses out, and partly to stop people walking off with private data. So you'd have a stick and a socket but an operating system that wouldn't allow you to read it.
This may well be the case in many well run computer systems. Not that I'm suggesting that the NHS computers are well run!
Posted by: Skipweasel | Aug 27, 2006 4:45:17 PM
