City Approves Participation in “Smart 911″
Decatur Metro | February 21, 2012Tonight, Asst. City Manager Andrea Arnold presented the idea of having Decatur join the “Smart 911″ Emergency Health Data website.
The city commission approved the measure meaning that residents will soon be able to go to Smart911.com and enter health and strategic information about yourself, your family members, and your property that would be available to first responders if you ever called 911 inside the City of Decatur.
Above you’ll find a brief synopsis from a local newscast from elsewhere about the service.
For those interested, I’m sure the city will let us know when the service is open to Decatur residents.
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This seems like a great move. We’ll definitely use the service. Is there much of an added cost to the City? It may be one of those improvements that more than pays for itself over a short period of time in terms of efficiencies and decreased risk for first responders, never mind deaths and disabilities averted.
It’s free to the city and residents.
Apologies, Ms. Arnold cleared this up for me this morning. It’ll cost the city $9,900 a year with a $3,000 set up fee. Personally I’m sorta relived since otherwise I wouldn’t under how this company made it’s money.
That’s a really terrific idea, and it illustrates (through a simple voluntary initiative) how valuable electronic medical records can be.
This seems like the high-tech equivalent of the Vial of Life program that’s popular among older adults. In that program, seniors fill out forms about medical conditions, prescriptions, and allergies and place them in a specially marked vial in the refrigerator. A sticker on the front door of the home indicates that there’s a Vial of Life inside.