Patent ID: 7395215

Claim:
A method for handling personal health data, comprising: providing a personal detachable portable computer readable and writeable memory device; providing applications software self contained in the portable device, the applications software including functions of recording the data, organizing the data according to body organ systems, browsing, displaying, printing and editing wherein the device does not require external software except a disc operating system and wherein the portable device uploads the self-contained software which is used to record the data, organize the data according to body organ systems, browse, display, print and edit the personal health data; providing a health data file in the portable device; recording health data elements in the health data file; providing attributes of health information data in fields of health information in the health data elements; storing the health data elements in the fields of health information as records in the health data file in a standard universal structure; storing identifications of the fields of health information in the portable device; and storing body organ system designations in the health data file in the portable device.