MyMedicalRecords.com Offers Medical Passport for Life With First Multilingual Personal Health Record

LOS ANGELES, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- MyMedicalRecords.com ("MMR"), the Web-based service for secure and confidential storage of personal health records and other important documents, has announced a new suite of features including an innovative Global Worldwide multiple language capability, including Spanish and Japanese. Users can select which language they want the service presented, either on the home page or via their account profile, and all captions, labels and text on the site will instantaneously change.

"This new multilingual feature, the first of its kind in a Personal Health Record, gives our users the safety, convenience and universal portability of their MyMedicalRecords.com account when they are traveling. Now, in the event of an emergency, local medical personnel can access a user's emergency folders in the language they understand," said Robert H. Lorsch, MyMedicalRecords.com Chairman and CEO. "In addition, the new service allows the company to meet the multilingual needs of diverse communities throughout the United States. MyMedicalRecords.com plans to expand its language offerings in the near future to include Korean, French, German and Chinese."

Lorsch co-founded the company with Russell Armstrong in 2005 to offer a consumer-centric product that empowers individuals and their families to have greater control over the medical records normally maintained in their doctors' offices along with other important documents such as advanced directives, insurance policies, birth certificates and emergency photos of children, pets and personal property. They can then be available instantly from any Internet-connected computer anywhere in the world. MyMedicalRecords.com is available direct to consumers through its Web site, http://www.mymedicalrecords.com/ and via numerous benefit programs offered by major corporations, affinity organizations and unions.

"MyMedicalRecords.com quickly and efficiently moves patient records from a doctor's office into a private and secure online account so that the individual has it whenever and wherever they need it - in an emergency, when traveling, when changing doctors, and when changing jobs. Anyone who knows how to use a fax machine and the Internet can easily have access to the service," Lorsch explained. "MyMedicalRecords.com is really a medical passport for life that follows the user anywhere he or she goes."

In addition to offering multiple language capability, the new MyMedicalRecords.com platform also offers these additional exclusive product features:

  Microsoft(R) Outlook(R) Integration -- Users can integrate their
  MyMedicalRecords.com calendar entries with their own Microsoft Outlook
  desktop calendars, which makes the product even more dynamic as a health
  management tool. This feature enables users to schedule medical
  appointments and other regularly occurring events like prescription
  refills directly to an Outlook calendar when operating in the MMR site.

  Multiple Notification Channels -- Notifications from the MMR system --
  including alerts for voice messages from medical professionals, records
  faxed into the system and reminders for doctor appointments and
  prescription refills -- can now be sent to up to three e-mail addresses,
  enabling users to be reached on their PDAs or text-enabled cell phones, in
  addition to their desktop computers.

  Global Search -- The unique "Global Search" feature allows users to
  perform free-form searches easily throughout the entire site.  The search
  can be performed using words and key phrases to quickly find those records
  containing specific information such as a record title or family member
  name.

  Patient Library -- MyMedicalRecords.com connects users to a searchable
  encyclopedia, which contains interactive audio-visual presentations on
  thousands of different health and medical topics, including information on
  symptoms and possible treatments.

"These features further enhance our product to make MyMedicalRecords.com the state-of-the-art Personal Health Record, one that is truly portable and can be used anywhere in the world," Lorsch said.

Built on a technology platform used by the world's largest financial institutions, MyMedicalRecords.com utilizes unique, proprietary patent pending technologies developed by the company to provide its state-of-the-art products and services. The system allows users and their medical providers to fax records into their secure, password-protected account through a unique, personal "Lifeline" telephone number. The system digitizes and stores these records as encrypted, unalterable PDF files.

The MyMedicalRecords.com account can include an entire range of medical records from patient charts, doctor's notes, lab reports, prescriptions and immunization records. Images, such as X-rays, EKGs, CT scans and MRI's can be uploaded into the account directly from the user's computer. Moreover, MyMedicalRecords.com features a special Emergency Login that allows doctors and other medical personnel to have access to selected critical information, such as blood type, medical history and allergies, in the event of a medical emergency in which the user is not able to communicate.

About MyMedicalRecords.com

MyMedicalRecords.com is a privately-held corporation based in Los Angeles that empowers consumers with greater control over their health and well-being by providing Web-based storage of personal health and medical records and other important documents, including living wills, birth certificates and insurance policies, accessible anytime from any Internet-connected computer in the world. Using proprietary patent pending technology, MyMedicalRecords.com is an easy-to-use, secure and affordable solution that serves individuals, businesses, professional associations, unions, financial institutions, health care providers and insurance companies and brokers. The product is completely controlled by the user and allows documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted in and out of the system using a variety of methods, including fax, file upload and e-mail. To take a multimedia Flash tour of the Web site, visit http://www.mymedicalrecords.com/ and enter the registration code MMRglobal for a free 60-day trial.

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