Member VNA Offers Innovative Product Idea to VNAA Membership The Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut (VNA/SCC) has recently begun offering the Web-based products of Online Registries, Inc. (OLR) to the public through a link on their Website (www.vnascc.org). The products, electronic medical proxies and electronic personal medical profiles, are marketed to consumers on a private pay basis. OLR Products for Managing a Family's. . . (click here for full story) Massachusetts Compassionate Care Coalition March 2007 Online-registries.com (OLR) is a digital medical records company that provides safe, secure, private, and affordable storage of vital personal medical information. Storage is combined with the ability to access and share that information with designated healthcare providers in an emergency, when every second counts!   (click here for full story) Can You Really Afford to Wait? January/February 2007   If you have been considering a medical/healthcare proxy, also known as a medical power of attorney, you may have already begun to think about whom you wish to name as your Agent and his/her alternative together with instructions you want give for your care if you are unable to express your wishes.   (click here for full story) Advance Care Planning Day - The Time is Now November 24, 2006   Family and physician concerns about legal rights and potential liabilities cause many patients who are incapacitated by illness or injuries to receive undesired treatment or have treatment withheld or withdrawn.     (click here for full story) NVCC partnership making life-saving medical info available in an emergency By Sherry Alpert March, 2006   Businesses, employees and their families throughout the Neponset Valley now have access to a digital medical records system that will ensure the availability of vital and potentially life-saving medical information during an emergency. The Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce (NVCC) and Caritas Norwood Hospital are taking a leadership role in partnering with online-registries (www.onlineregistries.com). (click here for full story)   How Do Health Care Providers Benefit From online-registries? By David Stern January 10, 2006   In the ongoing battle against escalating medical costs, insurers and employers know only too well what unneeded and unwanted medical measures cost. During emergencies, essential information often is not available, resulting in misdiagnoses and delayed, unwanted, unnecessary, or improper treatment. This can cost insurance companies, employers, and consumers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. (click here for full story) Can You Really Afford to Wait? By David Stern October 2005   If you have been considering a medical/healthcare proxy, also known as a medical power of attorney, you may have already begun to think about whom you wish to name as your Agent and his/her alternative together with the instructions you want give for your care if you are unable to express your wishes. If you are one of almost 25 million Americans who already have a proxy, you may want to revisit certain issues, especially in light of the public and private tragedy experienced by Terry Schiavo’s family. (click here for full story)   TOP 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH By David Stern July 2005   As the school bell rings for the last time this year and tens of millions of children flock to their summer activities, parents, grandparents and caregivers are reminded that while every precaution must be taken to prevent injury, it is inevitable that accidents will happen. Ensuring that children are properly treated for injury or illness can be simple, safe, secure, portable and affordable. Consider these statistics*... (click here for full story)   What Have We Learned? Put it in Writing By David Stern May 2005   Advances in medical science enable us to extend lives years beyond what was possible even a few decades ago. Yet this progress has a potentially darker side: it can prolong suffering to patients and family alike and draws out the process of dying beyond what is natural and often longer than many people desire.   (click here for full story)   Making Hard Choices Choosing an Agent   By David Stern February 2003 Introduction If you are considering a medical/healthcare proxy (power of attorney), you may have begun to think about whom you wish to name as your Agent and Alternate Agent, and what instructions you want to give him/her for your care. This article presents general information that may or may not apply to your situation. It is intended to assist you in making very important decisions, but does not constitute legal advice. Because laws vary from state to state, you may wish to seek legal counsel regarding your individual circumstances.  (click here for full story)     If you’ve got it, flaunt it   by David Stern December 2002   Are you one of over twenty-four million Americans who already have an advanced directive or are you still struggling with the whether you need one or actually what one is? If you are amongst the first group, congratulations, you’ve taken the initial step towards controlling your medical care. By executing a medical proxy, healthcare proxy or medical power of attorney, you will always know that medical decisions will be made by the person who understands your wishes, provided caregivers know who your agent is and how to contact him or her.  (click here for full story) Be Prepared...   by David Stern October 2002   While we all would like to think that we have made plans for contingencies, more often than not, things fall between the cracks.  Estate planning (wills and trusts), insurance (health, life, disability) and medical proxies (powers of attorney) are all things which we know intellectually, are very important, but psychologically are often hard to face. (click here for full story) RI firms to partner on electronic health-care initiative   June 18, 2002 PROVIDENCE - Collaboration Catalyst (C2) of North Kingstown and online-registries (OLR) of Newport announced plans last week to couple OLR's electronic medical-records products with C2's patent pending, Digital Enzyme. The combination will create a system to use automatic alerts that notify authorized-care communities and family support networks in case of medical and other personal emergencies. OLR offers a group of Web-based services, including medproxy.com, med-records.com, kidrecords.com and senior-records.com, that allows individuals and families to manage their personal information and, in case of emergency, share that information within a pre-authorized constituency of "need-to-know" individuals. The incorporation of the Digital Enzyme technology will allow this notification system to be extended to e-mail, telephone and other contact methods to ensure prompt care and support. Two R.I.-based companies help EMTs get fast access to your medical needs   06/24/2002 08:22 AM By Patricia Resende With the touch of a cell phone button, an emergency medical technician will know a patient's blood type, allergies and whether the patient has a "do not resuscitate" (DNR) order. (click here for full story) Rhode Island's Guide to the prime of your life The Mouse that Roared by David Stern April 2002   Remember when a bite wasn't a byte and ram was either an active verb or an animal, not your computer's memory? All this is changing and changing for everyone, not simply the "younger" set. According to research data, over 157,000 million Americans use the Internet. Of these Internet users, 21.2 million are age 50 or over and are the fastest growing segment of Internet users. (click here for full story) Rhode Island's Guide to the prime of your life Medical Proxies: Six Steps to Empowering Incapacitated Patients By David Stern January 2002   Advances in medical science enable us to extend lives decades beyond what was possible a century ago. Yet this progress has a potentially darker side: It can prolong suffering and draw out the process of dying beyond what is natural and longer than many people desire. The 1970s tragedy of coma victim Karen Ann Quinlan dramatized the plight of those whose final days are spent in a haze of heavily medicated pain while their families suffer emotional anguish. Since then, much has been done to enhance patient rights and decision-making autonomy. (click here for full story)   online-registries is the parent of a family of medical information Web sites with state-of-the-art security. Members can store their medical histories, or those of their children or other family members, and have vital information retrievable via the Internet by emergency physicians at accredited hospitals. “We can not always prevent injuries and illnesses, but we can ensure that doctors have the medical information they need to provide fast, appropriate treatment, especially in emergencies, when every second counts,” said Stern. “It is hard to remember everything that could affect a loved one’s health.

Knowing what doctors need to know – and then having that information at your fingertips – is the best way to ensure peace of mind.” “More than every before, the Internet is playing a vital role in information access. online-registries was chosen to be on the program due to its ability to offer easy and complete access to medical and personal records to the people who need it most – consumers and healthcare professionals,” said Wendy Altman, the show’s coordinating producer. online-registries currently offers three simple, safe and secure Web sites: kidrecords.com, for children; senior-records.com, for older adults’ medical information; and medproxy.com, for medical power of attorney information.

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e-SSENTIALS Managing life and leisure in a dot-com world PUBLICATION: Newsday BY: Bob Suter; Reuters; The Associated Press EDITION: ALL EDITIONS SECTION: PluggedIn DATE: 09-12-2001 / C03 SITES OF THE WEEK Your Medical Records senior-records.com: Important information is useful only if it's accessible. Among the most important information for any individual is his or her personal medical history. In an emergency, ready access to that vital data is sometimes a matter of life or death. This site offers a secure online repository where, for a modest fee ($19.95 registration; $2.95 annual maintenance)*, older Americans can safeguard their medical records where they can be readily retrieved by the patient, registered accredited health-care providers or designated caregivers. The information is password- protected and can be revised at any time by the individual or anyone he or she designates. The site is part of a family of sites, including medproxy.com, which safeguards medical powers of attorney information. ©Copyright 2001, Newsday Inc.      * the annual fee is actually $9.95

Online medical registry launches site, rekindles debate over consumer privacy of health records

6/25/2001

By Patricia Resende

“One site does not a company make,” said David Stern, founder of Online-Registries Inc., which will soon launch his fourth medical information Web site, www.adultrecords.com. (click here for full story)

Health Beat Newport-based firm puts records on the web HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is not yet reality, but one company is diving into the online medical records business without looking back. Newport, R.I.-based online-registries Inc. last week launched Senior-records.com, which allows senior citizens to file and update their medical records online. While we don't normally write about companies not based in the Bay State, we will be following the issue of companies looking to put medical information online. HIPAA requires insurers and providers to perform all of their administrative duties electronically, but there are still many who do not want to see medical information posted on the World Wide Web. From the May 25, 2001 print edition (click here for full story)

Firm Offers Children’s Medical Records on Web January 30, 2001 A new Internet company has created a national, online medical record keeping system, according to an article in The Providence Journal. The company, which was founded last year, is called Online-Registries, Inc. The company believes its new service, called kidrecords.com, is the only such service available in the country. The site allows parents to put their children's medical records online to help healthcare workers in the event of an emergency. The information could include children's allergies, immunizations, adverse medical reactions, and special physical needs and conditions. "That [the information] can help doctors or caregivers respond effectively in emergencies, when every second counts," said David Stern, president and chief executive officer of Online-Registries, Inc. kidrecords.com to Host Medical Records Online By David Aponovich December 28, 2000 A Rhode Island Web site, kidrecords.com, launched this week offering to put children's medical histories online for authorized doctors and caregivers in the case of accident or emergency. kidrecords.com says its goal is to help doctors make quick, correct decisions about medical care with access to a child's medical history, no matter where they are. The parent company of kidrecords.com is online-registries Inc. of Newport. President and CEO David Stern said they started the Web site for medical records "because we knew that many parents were concerned about the lack of immediate access to their child's medical information." For a fee, parents can register their kids' medical histories on the secure Web site. The registration cost is $15.95 per child and an annual per-child fee of $2.95*. Accredited hospitals and caregivers can access the information via the Internet, learning details about a child's allergies, special needs, illnesses and immunizations. The company says the service benefits non-custodial parents or guardians "who may not be intimately familiar with a child's medical history." Access to the online information also can be given to babysitters, day care centers, schools, camps or grandparents. kidrecords.com vows to protect the information, saying its Web site uses a Kryptinet secure server and its privacy policy prohibits its from selling, sharing or renting any information. * registration is actually $19.95 with an annual fee of $9.95