Some hospitals are going beyond the standard patient-identification wristband by integrating new technology into the wristband, according to The Wall Street Journal. The standard hospital ID bracelet ...

South Bend Firefighter Suzie Krill shows a CARES bracelet that first responders can scan to access medical information of Alzheimer's patients. SOUTH BEND — A slim gray bracelet is making its way ...

Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis — and which can ...

BEND, Ore. – A hospital in central Oregon has made a small change that represented a huge difference for its transgender patients: It removed the gender designation from patient identification ...

An ID can be crucial in a medical crisis, and it doesn’t have to be something you want to hide. By Jaclyn Peiser In times of uncertainty, people turn to many places for peace of mind: cooking, ...

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