Medical history in the bracelet
Unconscious scanning
A system for identifying a person in emergency situations is being tested in Novosibirsk. Testing is carried out by the center for social protection of the Kalininsky district of Novosibirsk. QR bracelets have already been received for free by 2,500 people, whom doctors have included in the risk group for emergency situations.
"We were almost disappointed in the Russian market when we received an offer from the Novosibirsk Department of Social Policy to equip people suffering from chronic diseases with QR-code bracelets in case of an attack or other emergency situation," says Sergey Vishipanov, Deputy General Director of the company QRepublik (resident of Skolkovo). – We have been trying in vain for many years to introduce our medical identifier with a QR code in Russia. At first they thought to distribute it through public organizations – it did not go. Then, for promotion, a pilot project was launched in Domodedovo, Moscow region. At their own expense, they allocated bracelets, asked the social service to provide them to people from the risk group – it was not possible. The product is new, there is no budget for it..."
The Novosibirsk experiment suggested a business model that can work in Russia. "We are going from a fundamental implementation in the region, we determine which group of people is facing this problem, we find ways to equip these people with IDs, we train them and emergency services. It is easier for doctors to scan the code than to communicate with a person who is unconscious," says Sergey Vishipanov.
Russia and medical identification
In America, QRepulik bracelets are already on sale, but they are not bought by medical institutions, but by private individuals. "Everything depends on the culture of self–care," explains Sergey Vishipanov.– In the States, it is better developed than anywhere else, so there is no need to tell anyone what a medical identifier is: it is worn by everyone who is at risk for diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, stroke, dementia, epilepsy, cirrhosis of the liver, food or drug allergies. And the doctors have instructions: arriving at a helpless, sick person, the first thing to do is to look for some kind of medical identifier from him. We have yet to form this culture."
"Since Soviet times, we have an allergy passport in our country – a document that contains information about an allergic disease and medications that the patient takes or that can help him in an emergency," says Elena Shuvatova, allergist–immunologist, candidate of medical Sciences, medical director of the Allergotop project. carry it with you at all times. However, few people will guess, even from doctors, that you need to get into the pocket of a person lying on the street and find some kind of medical document."
In order to make it easier to access medical information about a person in a life-threatening condition, silicone bracelets are used in the West, on which information about the disease is engraved.
Passers-by and emergency workers will surely pay attention to such a bracelet. But what can you write on a small plate of such a bracelet? At best, the last name and diagnosis.
A bracelet with a QR code can do much more. "If doctors of a certain region or the whole country know about the existence of a bracelet with a QR code and are able to see the patient's profile through a smartphone, they immediately receive information about the possible causes of his poor condition and can quickly begin providing the necessary medical care. This is much more convenient than a silicone bracelet with an engraving," Elena Shuvatova notes.
A bracelet: how it works
The QR code can be read by any smartphone – you just need to have a camera with a scanner. All other devices – a bracelet with a USB flash drive or microchips, which are sewn only to pets so far – require special devices for reading, which means that an ordinary passerby will not be able to help someone in trouble. "In the USA, where 80% of our users live, 50% of scans are not for emergency services, but for passers–by who want to help a sick person," Sergey Vishipanov emphasizes.
The bracelet is not an electronic device, which means it does not need to be charged, he continues, and is made very durable.
A bracelet with a QR code after scanning offers to follow the link, and a page opens in the browser, as in a social network. There's all the information about the user. When a person registers his QR code on the QRepublik website and enters data about himself, his illness and medications, the information is stored in the cloud not entirely, but in the form of eight identifiers.
One of them knows the name of the person, in the other – information about the disease, in the third – about medicines, etc. That is, it is impossible to see a person's diagnosis in the cloud storage, only the QR code collects all groups of data together. "Medical data cannot be stored as links, that is, in the public domain," explains Sergey Vishipanov.– We have bricks of information on the server that do not form a user profile. We ourselves cannot see any profile in our database. A QR code, that is, a physical label in which a long string of characters is "sewn", is the key to collecting it. When you point the camera at the QR code, the bricks connect."
Personal translator
QRepublik is able to translate information into 24 languages – of course, not in as much detail as in Google Translate. "If a person writes "I am diabetic" in any of 24 languages, we do not translate this phrase, we translate the fact that he has diabetes. We do not translate the name of the drug, but immediately show the active substance," explains Sergey Vishipanov.
"Technically, none of our competitors can make a transfer, because it is impossible to send medical data to external translation systems. But we can. This is our killer feature," Sergey smiles.– That's why we are actively developing in tourism. In case of any emergency on vacation, local emergency services will know what to do and who to report the incident to."
If, of course, they know that the information is recorded on the bracelet.
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