AccessMyRecords

Overview

USA-based 'Safe and secure electronic storage and retrieval service for basic medical and legal records'. Also includes ICE Program (via mobile phone), prescription renewal alerts (by e-mail) and prescription discount card.

Products and

Aims:

• Reducing healthcare inefficiencies.
• Limiting the possibility of medical errors and ensure the members' legal wishes.
• Empowering members in making them more active partners in the managing and maintenance of their own healthcare records.

Access:

• AccessID^SM Card and key tag: shows your name and ID code; gives medical personnel the ability to access the member's online Read-Only summary profile directly through the Internet or by calling one of our customer service operators 24/7.
• Window decals for car and home: to alert emergency personnel of membership of this service and how to find their records.
• From any where in the world, 24/7.
  
• Via the Internet, phone, fax.
• Information can be made available to the member and doctors, hospitals, emergency personnel.

Product/services:

• Members create and update their own personal healthcare profile including legal records. If a Member does not have a computer, he or she can mail updated information to  AccessMyRecords.com or phone them.
• Renewals: email notification to member when their prescription medications are due to be renewed.
• Legal records can include: Will or Trust, Passport, Driver's License, Birth Certificate, Transcripts, Homeowners, Automobile and Life Insurance Policies, Real Estate Closing Documents.
• Contact details can include: Professional Advisors, including Accountant, Attorney, Stockbroker, Bankers and Insurance Agents.
• Website has Emergency Medical Records login section: Personal Identification Photo; Emergency Contacts; Family Physicians; Allergies and Medications; Medical Conditions; Past Surgeries; Healthcare Insurance Providers; Healthcare Power of Attorney and Living Will.
  
• Prescription Discount Card: free to members.
• I.C.E. (In Case of Emergency) Program: access by mobile phone.
  

• Password-protected area.
• The information can only be viewed by the member when entering his or her password and AccessID code to login the Members Section of the Website.
• 'Information cannot be altered in anyway by anyone other than the member.'
• 'Records are stored in a 128-bit SSL database offering the highest level of encryption security using today's latest technology. AccessMyRecords.com guarantees as technology changes; updates are made to its security programs to protect all of our members.'
  

Where available:

• Started in Florida, USA.
• Not clear from website if people based outside the USA can use this service.
  

Reimbursement of costs:

• In the USA: 'The Office of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reviewed the services that AccessMyRecords.com provides and has concluded this service falls under General & Administrative (G&A) cost of healthcare reimbursed managed care plans. CMS has acknowledged that 85% of this entire service will be reimbursed as a G&A cost back to the managed care plan that uses the AccessMyRecords.com service for every member that is enrolled in their health managed care plan'.

Process:

• Sign up via website at www.accessmyrecords.com, by phone 1-800-796-6431 (USA)or completing registration form on the back of their brochure. Members pay an annual fee (see below); once the fee is paid, the new member can immediately start using all the services. 
  

Business model

Membership: annual.

• A single AccessIDSM membership is $30.00 annually.

• Couples are $50.00 annually.

• Children or additional family members tied to a guardian's account are $20.00 annually.
• Some large employers seem to be signed up to this service...
  

People and partners

People:

• Difficult to identify ownership and board from their website; Started by: estate planning attorney Frank Barbieri and entrepreneur Lenny Tambasco (according to news article on their website November 5 2005)
  

Partners:

• National Health & Wellness Club; Healthy Trucking and Over the Road Pro Trucking magazine; Patient Education Institute; Medic I.D.; US Legal Forms.com; ADT Home Security Services; Liberator Medical Supply; Citrus Memorial Health System; Jarden Corporation; Nation Safe Drivers; Tenet Federal Credit Union; Syracuse City School District; National HealthCare Advisors (NHA.

Other comments

From the news section of their website, dissertation writing services , they seem to have had promotion (including TV adverts) within the USA at least. Unclear how many members they have.

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