USB Medic Altert Bracelet

[SoulRebel-APS]

I was wondering if anyone besides me knows about and uses a USB Medic Alert Bracelet. Its really cool u plug it into your computer and it doen loads a program. U can put all kinds of information on it. Including multiple meds, disorder, xrays, dr. 100 times better then little braclet that says APS/Warfarin/Plavix. The USB holds everything and all dr/hospital has to do is plug it into their computer and then they know everything u put on it!

[HollyHeski Administrator]

Yes - great if you are able to hand over but no good for Ambulance crews esp if you are unconcious. Would use both - I have a hard copy tucked into my mobile & my medic bracelet on my mirror in the car.

[Ray46]

From a computer security point of view this sounds like a really really bad idea. Honestly. Wear a bracelet or whatever with a readable id code and a url, or a QR code, and put the info online, where it can be accessed via firewalls, displayed in a browser sandbox and only accessed via a machine that is supposed to be able to connect to the internet and is setup to deal with the risks that entails. Seriously.

No paramedic/nurse/doctor should _ever_ take a usb device of unknown origin and plug it into a hospital computer, and they (or you or anyone else) should _NEVER_ run an unknown program from an unknown source usb device. A large part of the job of hospital IT security will be preventing staff from doing exactly this, another large part will be clearing up the mess when some idiot finds a way to do it anyway.

This is exactly how hospitals (and other targets) are hacked, in tests and for real. Some further reading:

krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11...

theregister.co.uk/2016/02/2...

books.google.co.uk/books?id...

[SoulRebel-APS]

Well here in the US the dr.s and hospitals are putting our medical recods online anyway. Something I was very against! But I have no say.

[MaryF Administrator]

Yes good advice, I had the same thought. MaryF