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 headquartered is in the United States and has international affiliates in nine countries.
The MedicAlert® International headquarters are in Turlock, California, U.S.A. MedicAlert® has affiliates in: Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Iceland, Malaysia, New Zealand , South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and Zimbabwe.
On a global mission to protect and save lives.