Patent ID: 8066192

Claim:
A personal health information instrument assigned to an associated instrument holder, comprising: a portable substrate carrying a communication interface, a CPU, an electronic memory, and an RFID circuit, the memory storing first sector information and second sector information; the CPU configured to implement hierarchical security access to the first and second sector information causing the RFID circuit to report the first sector information but not the second sector information wirelessly in response to an RFID interrogation from an RFID reader having a first level of interrogation authority; the CPU further configured to cause the personal health information instrument to report the second sector information through a physical communication interface in response to a second type of interrogation other than RFID having a second level of interrogation authority; wherein the first sector information reported in response to the RFID interrogation includes photo identification of the instrument holder; and the second sector information includes medical information pertaining to the instrument holder.