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STORING VITAL HEALTH INFO AT COLLEGE
You have made sure that your son or daughter is well prepared for college academics, and you are doing your own level best to prepare financially.
You have meticulously reviewed colleges and universities and have chosen what you hope is the perfect match. Scholarships have been applied for, dorm rooms requested and the family vehicle will soon be packed with everything your college student will need for a life away from home. Or will it?
For parents sending their child off to college for the first time, a common fear is what happens in case of an emergency.
When your child lives at home with you, you are there to take them to the doctor or emergency room. You are there to answer all the questions from a nurse or attending physician.
But now that your college student will soon be on his or her own, how can you be sure that all vital health information is available should an emergency happen?
Each year, millions of college students leave home without the critical medical information that will be needed for them to access emergency – or even basic - healthcare. And each year, there are more than 110 million emergency room visits in the United States.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 98,000 people die each year from medical errors in U.S hospitals. The American College of Emergency Physicians’ Web site states that “even children with easily recognized problems might be difficult to treat when a physician is unfamiliar with their medical histories.”
These statistics can seem a little scary and might leave you saying to yourself: “great, one more thing to worry about.” However, there is a very easy and inexpensive way to prepare. That’s where College Parents of America comes in.
College Parents of America has teamed up with Critical Access Incorporated to offer our members the Portable Health Profile™. The Portable Health Profile™, or PHP for short, is a revolutionary idea in the management of health information.
The PHP is a complete health information software program offering the ability for students to manage, store and carry an entire medical history. It is easy to fill out (less than 30 minutes), can be updated at any time, and is password protected to insure privacy while still offering the vital information that will be needed in emergency situations.
PHP offers the ultimate in portability with two ways for students to carry their entire medical history: within a pen-light sized flash drive that could attach to a college student’s key chain or on a credit card-sized CD-Rom placed in a wallet or purse.
Imagine storing your college student’s emergency contact information, allergies, medications and other vital health information in a format that is easily retrieved by emergency personnel using a simple USB port or CD-Rom drive on a computer. Window and windshield stickers are also provided to help guide emergency personnel to look in a wallet or on a key chain.
The product provides potentially life-saving health information in situations when an individual is unable to communicate. What if a student is unconscious, severely injured, experiencing a diabetic reaction or epileptic seizure, or is hearing or speech impaired?
One hopes that trained medical personnel will arrive quickly to a problem scene, and ask for help to assess the situation. The benefit is clear- timely information can save lives.
In addition to its use in emergency situations, the PHP also is helpful during more routine medical visits. Similar to popular tax software, the program has easy prompts that will guide you and the student in your household, in less than 30 minutes, through a comprehensive medical questionnaire. The program then saves the data in a format recognizable by virtually all computers utilized in a medical setting.
Empower your current or future college student to feel more confident when accessing medical care on campus or while he or she is traveling. Give him or her the necessary data in a format that is easy to use.
Even the most complicated chronic medical conditions can be tracked and managed successfully by your college student. Or, if you prefer, parents can update the profile on their home computers each time their student come home. Information such as EKGs and Lab Work can be scanned into the program which also includes Health Related Legal Documents and a Medical Savings Account Tracker.
College Parents of America is proud to offer our members a 20 percent discount on the retail price for the PHP, the only product of its kind offering the ultimate in digital health care data storage and retrieval in the most convenient and portable format available. To learn more about this very useful product, members should please click here.
Not a member of College Parents of America? Join today and receive the PHP Profile software-only download absolutely free as part of new membership. You will also be immediately eligible for the 20 percent discount described above on the transportable key-chain- or credit-card-size version of the PHP product.
Not interested in College Parents of America membership, but intrigued by the PHP product? Please visit www.portablehealthprofile.com to learn more.
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