An emergency Personal Health Record (PHR) should be your family’s first priority in your emergency preparedness plan.
Disaster can strike with little or no warning, giving us little or no time to prepare. Floods, hurricanes, fire, earthquakes or other natural disasters all pose serious concerns. How well we prepare ourselves in advance of disaster will be determine the extent of how our needs are met.
As witnessed in recent years, natural disasters or emergency situations can occur anywhere at anytime.
In the wake of Hurrican Katrina in 2005, Americans witnessed just how fragile paper based health record systems really are. Public health and medical response personnel were faced with the challenge of meeting the health care needs of the victims of Katrina. Meeting the immediate medical needs of the injured or those with chronic conditions without access to their medical records was one of the greatest challenges. Trying to care for the thousands who were displaced by the hurricane was hampered by the loss of access to their medical records as well.
Prepare your family for possible emergencies or natural disasters. To learn more about preparing an emergency personal health record PHR click here or view this prezi —
Why You Should Start a Personal Health Record
December 30, 2013 at 1:13 am
We’re a group of volunteers and starting a new scheme in our community.
Your site offered us with valuable information to work
on. You’ve done an impressive job and our entire community will be grateful to you.
December 30, 2013 at 11:49 am
thanks for your comments… let me know if I can help.
dw
May 8, 2014 at 8:55 am
Today, I went to the beach front with my children.
I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter
and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She placed the shell to her ear and screamed.
There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is completely off topic but I had to tell someone!