(P2-22) Proposed Model for Cellular Medical Record in Emergency Medicine

Abstract

Introduction

In a hypothetical situation, an emergency services team is launched to treat a man who collapsed in the street. The team finds John Doe's mobile phone, and within seconds retrieves the required clinical parameters from his Mobile Medical Record (MMR), thus, providing a life-saving treatment suited to his personal health condition. This study seeks to determine if the necessary clinical parameters, required at emergency situations have ever been examined in order to best match both emergency situations and cellular technology.

Objective

To characterize the clinical parameters that make up an MMR in the context of saving lives, and to propose a model for an MMR in emergency medicine.

Methods

The essential emergency medicine clinical parameters in the context of life-saving treatments were characterized through interviews with prehospital and hospital experts in emergency medicine. The results were analyzed with the help of a cellular multimedia expert in order to best incorporate the clinical parameters into cellular phones as MMRs.

Conclusion

Emergency medicine teams chose individual and specific clinical parameters in a certain order of appearance from the general medical record that should assembly, in their opinion, an emergency medicine MMR. A MMR was chosen by the emergency medicine treatment teams as one of their preferred communication methods. The MMR model, if applied correctly, will provide the emergency medicine treatment teams an available, reliable, homogeneous database of real time clinical parameters adapted to life-saving conditions. The MMR model represents a conceptual revolution of taking the medical record from the caregiver and transferring it to the patient, which can be constantly at hand at any given time or place in their mobile phones.