MEDIBOOK - Cape Town

MediBook is free to all users, allowing easy, user-friendly tools to keep track of your medical history and that of your partner and family members. All of your personal health information is exclusively controlled by you and is protected by security passwords you set in place. MediBook also provides you with the option to allow your private medical practitioner access to your information in order to review your health history and update it. Emergency personnel can be permitted to access essential data, should you be in an accident or an incident where emergency treatment or intervention is required. SMS technology is employed to notify your emergency contacts should you find yourself in a situation where there needs to be a medical intervention. Medibook services are built around a  

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repository of health information that enables people to manage their personal health records while maintaining security, privacy and confidentiality. As the trusted custodian of comprehensive personal health information, the Medibook repository can provide critical medical information between patients, providers, payers, and emergency services 24 hours a day. Medibook is committed to providing technology-based solutions and is an active member and a leader in developing interoperability standards with all the major Healthcare IT standards organizations. The Medibook repository uses Web service interfaces to support standard Personal Health Records (PHRs), for patient record interoperability. These activities will ensure the rapid development and deployment of standards to improve the quality of care and lower healthcare costs while increasing patient safety.