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When you travel, everything is more difficult. You have to find new places to shop, new places to pay bills, new places to eat. What about health care? What happens if you get sick or one of your family members needs care. A PHR may be something for you to consider.

What are Personal Health Records? Relatively new on the scene, the are a way of storing your own health records and being able to share that information with Physicians and Health care providers at the click of a mouse. Password-protected and secure as most banking institutions, PHR's are becoming more popular with Doctors and Patients.

If you are tired of never finding medical records when needed or having a hard time keeping up with all the information for you and your family members, this is a system that can help track appointments, illnesses, medications and all of the other data that is sometimes overwhelming. Some systems also keep you updated on all the alerts pertaining to new medications and conditions that constantly appear on the scene. A doctor in Florida has created a medical record storage service that digitizes medical records and stores them on a business card-sized CD-Rom, so that travelers can quickly access relevant information in the case of illness.

We will look DR. Steven Hacker's  PassportM

"All too often when an emergency occurs to a traveler, precious time is wasted as the medical professional tries to learn about the patient's medical history," says Steven Hacker, the maker of the PassportMD. He added that the new device "ensures the patient has a reliable record of his or her past medical history", which he says can be life-saving for the patient.


PassportMD's Interactive Health Record (PHR) claim they can create a personal health record on each family member—AND give you personalized, trusted intelligence that's relevant to each member's conditions and medications. Password-protected and always secure, it's instantly accessible worldwide—so you can view, update and print whatever, and whenever you want. No more time wasted searching the Web for irrelevant results. Have just what you need—right at your fingertips.


They offer a series of instructional videos to explain their service, and it is quite affordable. They have been reviewed by AARP Magazine, PC Today and Town and Country Travel and others reliable publications. The PassportMD's Wizard allows a user to put personal medical history, blood type, insurance information and emergency contacts in a document that can be folded to carry in your wallet. Conversely, consumers can go one step further and store test results for EKGs and other lab tests and doctor's notes online for access by medical personnel.

You can find out more about this program at:Personal Health Record Management – PassportMD.