Medical Alert (RF)ID Bracelet
RFID, custom software (Processing, Asterisk), leather, rubber
Re-design of the medical ID alert bracelet. with a digital, networked component to it.
Aesthetically, the medical ID alert bracelet could use a makeover. There has been some patient resistance to wearing an ID alert bracelet because they find it ugly, or they don't want to be prominiently labeled by their condition. The challenge was to make the piece attractive, and easily recognizable and accessible to medical personnel in an emergency, without branding the wearer to the general public under normal circumstances.
In case of emergency, key information needs to be communcated: the patient's medical history to the doctors, and the patient's condition (and location) to their loved ones. Currently, medical ID tags carry a few short, concise, pieces of information: patient name, condition (e.g. "epilepsy," ), and sometimes, an emergency contact. Only so much analog information can fit on the bracelet. In this version, a digital tag (RFID) has been embedded into the medical ID tag. When the tag is read, the bracelet links you to online medical history and automatically contacts the patient's emergency contact by placing a phone call to them. It would let them know the patient is unwell, and that their records have been accessed.
