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Patients can keep health data online

By Times staff
Published on: 9/02/08

Health care consumers, especially those with multiple doctors and medications, can maintain their own medication and allergy lists online, thus making the information available in an emergency. One firm providing a Web site for this is MedsFile.com, where annual charges begin at $9.99 for individuals to input health records and emergency contacts. Customers decide with whom to share the access, and the customer also receives an ID card that provides physicians access to the data in the event of a medical emergency.

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