MedicAlert Worldwide
The MedicAlert Foundation is a non-profit healthcare informatics organisation dedicated to providing services to our members that protect and save lives.
MedicAlert® services are built around a repository of health information that enables members to manage their personal health records while maintaining security, privacy and confidentiality. As the trusted third party custodian of comprehensive personal health information, the MedicAlert® repository can connect to and provide critical medical information between patients, providers, payers, and first responders 24 hours a day anywhere in the world. The premium we place on patient confidentiality has earned the trust of 4 million members and the healthcare community worldwide.
MedicAlert® is committed to providing technology-based solutions and is an active member and a leader in developing interoperability standards with all the major Healthcare IT standards organizations. The MedicAlert® repository uses Web service interfaces to support standard Personal Health Records (PHRs), including electronic drug prescriptions and for patient record interoperability. These activities will ensure the rapid development and deployment of standards to improve the quality of care, lower healthcare costs while increasing patient safety.
MedicAlert® is a nonprofit membership organisation founded in 1956 with a mission to protect and save lives, its headquarters is in the United States and it has international affiliates in nine countries.
The MedicAlert® International headquarters are in Turlock, California, U.S.A.
MedicAlert® has affiliates in:
On a global mission to protect and save lives.
