USB Medical Bracelet

USB Bracelets – A Step in Medic Alert Evolution?

As technology improves, medical USB devices become increasingly popular. The small, portable, medical alert bracelets storage devices are specialty thumb or stick drives that hold medical history, insurance information, and other pertinent, health-related data.

Medic Alert Devices

Both traditional and USB devices give medical warnings, and like traditional medic alert jewelry, medical USB devices can be worn as necklaces, medical id charms or bracelets. They can attach to key chains, purses, and even some clothing. They can be put in pockets or glove boxes if so desired. But most similarity ends there.

Medical USB devices go a step or two beyond the face-value-only warning. The portable units provide additional information that can be critical in emergencies and extremely convenient in routine situations, providing richer, comprehensive history that allows a greater depth of knowledge to medical providers which can only enhance medical treatment over the traditional medical alert necklace.

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USB Medical ID Stainless Steel 1 1/2 x 1 inch	2 GB USB Medical ID Alert Plaque Stainless Steel 1 1/2 x 1 inch This stainless steel medical plaque includes a slide-out 2 GB USB. Strap not included. As with any storage device that contains sensitive data, care should be exercised when handled and back ups should be performed frequently. Composition: Stainless Steel Weight: 0.95 oz. / 27 g. Plaque Dimensions: 1 1/2 x 1 inch Thickness: 1/4 inch Engraving Options: Front and Back USB Size: 2 GB Features: Water Resistant Engravable Surface Dimensions: 1 x 1 inch more details…

USB Device Advantages

Not only is more information readily available with a medical USB device, the types of information that can be reviewed in an instant is expanded tremendously.

X-rays cannot be stored on an alert bracelet. Doctors’ names cannot fit on an alert necklace. Points-of-contact, living wills, donor information, and CT, EKG, and MRI scans can’t readily fit in most shirt pockets or on a dog tag chain.

Medical USB devices store tremendous amounts of information, often having the capacity of 1 gigabyte or more, far above the traditional medical alert device.

Most medical USB devices offer password protection against casual perusal by unauthorized personnel, safeguarding the confidentiality of the information.

Fully compatible with most Windows and Mac operating systems, integrating the plug-and-play performance grants easy access to critical information.

USB Device Disadvantages

Unlike the traditional alert jewelry, a USB medical id bracelet is not waterproof. While most situations don’t involve submersion in water, the device can be compromised by rainfall or an accidental drop in a puddle.

Because the device requires a USB port, the information on the medical USB bracelet is basically trapped on the drive if there is no computer port available.

However, considering the comprehensive applications of computer technology, the number of situations in which this particular drawback would remain a disadvantage decreases almost daily.

Summary

While the traditional medic alert jewelry will undoubtedly maintain its rightful place in medical treatment practices, supplementing information availability with a medical bracelet USB would seem to only make good medical sense. The more information medical practitioners have available, the more comprehensive the treatment options are.