Transcript Appendix I: About MedicAlert&#174

About MedicAlert®
Mission:
MedicAlert protects and enhances the lives of its members by meeting
their health information needs.
MedicAlert is:
• The leading provider of Canadian emergency medical information
services.
• The largest member-based charity in Canada (over 1 million
members)
o Over ½ million members in Ontario
• One of the best recognized trademarks and service marks in
Canada.
o Protecting the lives of Canadians since 1961
• Endorsed by the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
and the National Emergency Nurses Affiliation.
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About MedicAlert
• The Canadian MedicAlert® Foundation is Canada's largest memberbased, charitable organization dedicated to providing services to our
members that protect and save lives.
• MedicAlert maintains a state-of-the-art database that protects the
member's information and ensures confidentiality and privacy. As a
trusted healthcare partner, our members rely on us to provide critical
medical information to first responders in an emergency.
• Over one million Canadians have chosen MedicAlert to provide
them with the protection and peace of mind in case of a medical
emergency. Whenever you see the MedicAlert emblem, you know
you can count on us to help emergency medical personnel to
respond with appropriate and timely treatment.
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Students First Program
Description
Program Description
• The StudentsFIRST program is a new program developed to
ensure children and teenagers across Canada, with medical
conditions, allergies or special needs are protected by the Canadian
MedicAlert® Foundation.
• With the rise in childhood asthma, diabetes and allergies, it is
estimated that one in five children has a medical condition, allergy or
special need that should be communicated in an emergency. The
StudentsFIRST program has been created to provide kids ages 418 with the 24-hour protection of the MedicAlert® emergency
medical information service.
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Students First Program
Description
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Throughout the day your child or teenager will interact with many
children and may be under the care and supervision of several
different adults. This could be during recess, at lunch, in the
classroom or even after school at a friend's house or at a summer
camp. Parents want to ensure their child or teenager is safe and
protected at all times, especially if they have a medical condition.
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The initial enrollment fee is $52.00 plus provincial taxes. The fee
includes a MedicAlert bracelet or necklet custom engraved with
your child's medical condition, wallet card, electronic health record
and a one-year membership. This amounts to a savings of $30 or
more and also includes Extended Emergency Services.
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There is an annual fee of $30 per year to maintain your child or
teenager's membership in the StudentsFIRST program. This is a
savings of $19 for each year your child is enrolled in the program.
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The program is offered to individual students.
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The Demand for Students First
The Landscape
Approximately 300,000 Canadian students have medical conditions that
warrant MedicAlert protection.
Health Care Challenges in Children
• Increase in childhood Asthma (750,000 to 1 million Canadian children
have asthma)
• Increase in Diabetes (Estimated 25,000 to 50,000 children have
diabetes;)
• Increase in Allergies (Allergies to peanuts have doubled in past 5 years;
food allergies alone affect up to
7.5% of children)
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NCW Benefits Families and Schools
MedicAlert coverage is more than a child and a bracelet
Benefits for Children and Parents
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Reassures parents that the school will be
available to identify their child’s medical
emergency quickly
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Speaks for the child when the child/parent
cannot
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Educates the parent about medical conditions
warranting identification (allergies, asthma,
diabetes and other medical conditions)
Benefits for the School
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Identifies children with medical conditions to all
school administrators
– Teachers, Substitute Teachers, Staff as
well as parent volunteers
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Enhances the School’s safety plan
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Saves precious minutes in a medical
emergency
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Creates a greater awareness of the children
with medical conditions to all staff
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Serves as a catalyst for school administrators
to initiate discussion about medical issues
Provides the parent with an opportunity to talk to
the school about their child’s health
Gives peace of mind to the parent -- their child’s
medical history will be available even though
they are not present.
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Creates a culture of acceptance of medical
issues in school and later as children grow
Makes child safety an issue in and out of the
school setting
Core Membership Services
MedicAlert bracelet,
wallet card
• Unique patient identifier
• Key emergency data
• Summarized record
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Electronic
Membership record
• Detailed data
• Historical view
24-hour hotline
• Emergency call
• Family notification
My MedicAlert
• Secure Web access
• Members has ability to update
• View / Update record
• Transparent data processing
(information verification)
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Core Services:
Additional Services:
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MedicAlert bracelet, identifier,
wallet card
Electronic health record for
each member
24-hour hotline
My MedicAlert (interactive
health record,
Downloadable and updateable)
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EMS education
Reminders, alerts, recalls
on medications
Advance directives
Links to other major
disease organizations
Affiliate Programs (CARP,
Lifeline, CMA)
Corporate Group
Programs (GM, Dofasco)
Print and e-newsletters
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Value of Electronic Health Records
Studies on the Value of Electronic Health Records
and the Availability of Information
Surveys and Studies
Citation Source
A pan-Canadian Health Record (EHR) would produce the following
cost savings:
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$3.6B CAN over 20 years from reduction in duplicate radiologic tests
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$10.4B CAN over 20 years from reduction in duplicate lab tests
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$48.3B over 20 years from reduction of 29M ambulatory, hospital &
Long Term (LT) adverse drug events (ADEs)
Canada Health
Infoway (CHI) and
Booz Allen, “PanCanadian EHR,”
March 2005
A policy conference hosted by CHI and the Health Council of Canada
reported the following:
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Implementation of an EHR in the US could reduce ADEs by 2M/year
and prevent 190,000 hospitalizations
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EHR in the ICU reduces ICU mortality by 46%-48%, complications by
44%-50%, hospital mortality by 30%-33%
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Ontario Telehealth Network saved $5.2M in travel grants alone in
2005-2006
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Telehealth home care and chronic disease management produce
34%-40% fewer ER visits, 47% reduction in LT care admissions,
>32% fewer hospitalizations and up to 60% fewer hospital days
“Beyond Good
Intentions—
Accelerating the
EHR in Canada,”
CHI and the
Health Council of
Canada, June 11,
2006
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Value of Electronic Health Records
Surveys and Studies
Citation Source
Australian study claims saving of $300M/year by reducing medical
errors and duplication of effort if a national EHR can be
implemented.
Gunter, Tracy D.
and Nicholas, Terry
P., The Emergence
of National EHR
Architectures in the
US and Australia,
Journal of Medical
Internet Research 1
(2005)
European Journal of Health Economics:
• Identified 16,766 multi-day cardiac disease cases with 36.85% having
at least 1 ADE
• Patients with an ADE stay in hospital 7 days longer than those without
ADEs.
Ehsani, J.P.,
Duckett, S.J., and
Jackson, T., “The
Incidence and Cost
of Cardiac Surgery
Adverse Events in
Austalian Hospitals
2003 – 2004,”
European Journal of
Health Economics
(2007)
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Value of Electronic Health Records
Surveys and Studies
Citation Source
Research In Action study on ADEs in US Hospitals:
More than 770,000 die each year from ADEs in hospitals (cost of
$5.6M/hospital) and computerized systems could save between 28% to
95% of these errors
“Reducing and
Preventing Adverse
Drug Events to
Decrease Hospital
Costs,” Research in
Action, Issue 1,
March 2002
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) study of adverse
events (AEs) in Canadian hospitals in 2000:
• Incidence rate of 7.5%
• 70,000 preventable AEs
• 9,000 – 24,000 preventable AE deaths (2000)
Canadian Patient
Safety Institute
(CPSI), December
15, 2005
The Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) in 2004:
• 1/9 patients receive wrong medication or wrong dose
• More deaths from AEs in hospitals than from breast cancer, motor
vehicle accidents and HIV combined
• Approximately $15B in annual drug purchase are hand-written on slips
of paper (Canadian Prescription Drug Industry)
Canadian Institute
of Health
Information (CIHI),
2004
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Child Health Incidence Rates
References*
At least 10 per cent of children in Canadian schools have a
condition that warrants MedicAlert® protection. The
following information relates to common children illnesses:
Asthma
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The Canadian Lung Association reports that
750,000 to one million Canadian children have
asthma or about 12 per cent of Canadian children[1]
Asthma is the number one cause of emergency
room visits for children, and accounts for 25 per cent
of absences from school[2]
Cold viruses are one of the most common triggers
for asthma symptoms[3]
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Child Health Incidence Rates
References*
Diabetes
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More than two million Canadians have diabetes and
it is estimated that 25,000 to 50,000 of these are
children[4]
Children are most commonly diagnosed with Type 1
diabetes
Type 2 diabetes usually develops in adulthood,
although increasing numbers of children in high-risk
populations are being diagnosed[5]
The number of Canadians with diabetes is expected
to rise to three million by the end of the decade[6]
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Child Health Incidence Rates
References*
Allergies
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Allergies to peanuts have doubled in the past five
years; food allergies alone affect up to six per cent
of all Canadian children[7]
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
reports that children with extreme food allergies can
experience anaphylaxis requiring a visit to the
emergency room and a shot of epinephrine
Some allergic food reactions in children are fatal
[1] Statistics Canada 2001 Census; Canadian Lung Association - http://www.lung.ca/diseases-maladies/asthmaasthme/children-enfants/index_e.php; Canadian Diabetes Association,
http://www.diabetes.ca/Section_About/thefacts.asp; The Prevalence and costs of Diabetes
http://www.diabetes.ca/Section_About/prevalence.asp.
Food Allergy Review, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2004
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] http://www.diabetes.ca/Section_About/thefacts.asp.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Canadian Diabetes Association. The Prevalence and costs of Diabetes. Available at:
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http://www.diabetes.ca/Section_About/prevalence.asp.
[7] Food Allergy Review, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2004.
Questions & Answers
What is the enrollment fee to participate in the
StudentsFIRST program?
o The enrollment fee for the first year is $52.00 plus
provincial taxes. Each subsequent year the annual
membership fee is $30.00 until the member reaches
their 18th birthday.
What happens when my child goes to another school
in another city or province?
o The StudentsFIRST membership follows your child to
their new school. Please ensure you make the
necessary changes to your child's or teenager's
MedicAlert file by contacting us and updating their
record.
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What do I do if my child's MedicAlert identification is
lost or the student outgrows the bracelet?
o The participant in the StudentsFIRST program
receives one MedicAlert identifier as part of their
enrolment fee. A replacement is available for a
nominal cost.
I have a child who should join MedicAlert but who is
not in an elementary or high school, what can I do?
o MedicAlert offers a membership package for new
members that may meet your needs. Call our tollfree number at 1 866 734-9423 or visit us at
www.medicalert.ca to learn more.
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If you have any
questions please contact:
Deborah Legrove
Director of Advancement
[email protected]
416-490-3524
Clifford Leigh-Mossley
Manager, Student Programs
[email protected]
416-696-0142 X 1128
Laura King Hahn,
Manager of Education Programs
[email protected]
416-696-0142 x1114
www.medicalert.ca/studentsfirst
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