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MedsFile.com Corporate Fact Sheet
MedsFile.com, LLC, allows consumers to store important medication information, as well as lists of allergies, physicians and emergency contacts, in a private, secure online database. Founded in August 2004 by Mark Holland, this innovative Web-based service can be accessed anytime, anywhere, by a designated party that includes doctors, nurses, caregivers, hospitals, emergency medical personnel and family members.
MedsFile.com assigns each user a personal login and PIN. The user enters the patient’s medication information, as well as allergies, physicians and emergency contacts, in a private, secure online database. Once the MedsFile.com account is established, the company provides a wallet-sized card which displays the user’s login and PIN. With that information, a medical professional can go to either www.MedsFile.com at a computer, or go to mobile.medsfile.com on a mobile phone, to retrieve the user’s information.
MedsFile.com uses state-of-the-art Web applications and security, as well as a unique two-level security system that keeps users’ personal information private and secure. Customer ID cards, online access and print-out of the account only allow access to information that the user enters into the database and NOT any billing information – a separate login process is used by the account holder to view or change personal billing information.
MedsFile.com is a management and storage tool that strives to make medication information readily available to those who need to access it and does not provide any medical advice – therefore it is not impacted by HIPAA.
Drug errors are responsible for killing more than 7,000 hospitalized patients a year. As a way to reduce this number and as a general practice, doctors and hospitals are pleading with patients to maintain their own up-to-date medication and allergy lists, and to have this information available in an emergency.
A 2006 report by the Institute of Medicine concluded that based on national data on the number of medical errors calculated, a hospital patient is subject to one medication error per day, on average.
The number of drugs prescribed or ordered for patients is rising and totaled 2.7 billion in 2001, reflecting both the need to prescribe multiple drugs for those with multiple conditions as well as the availability of many new and popular types of medication.
Thirty-two million Americans take three or more medications daily. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the likelihood that an inappropriate drug is prescribed increases when multiple medications are prescribed.
For more information, please visit www.MedsFile.com.