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Originally Posted by Matt-MI
You could fill out the forms on the computer and save them as a pdf file on a flash drive and carry it in your pocket.
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From a systems engineering perspective, I'm thinking of the simplest way to get important information to the people who need it, and this doesn't qualify.
If it's decided that this kind of information needs to be quickly available in an emergency (and for a lot of people, there's nothing all that particular first responders or even an ER crew would need to know about) I will not want to have to find someone with a laptop, get the computer to recognize the thumbdrive, try to read the monitor through the sunlight glare (try reading a computer screen at noon, ... or even a half hour before sunset), hunt down a *.pdf file and hope that I don't get told that it's time to update Adobe Reader.
If I can pull out a piece of paper, and say "here's Jim's sheet, he says he's got chronic somethingorothertosis, and is allergic to latex and acetominophen" that works much faster.
A medic alert bracelet is even faster than that, and medics are trained to look for those. I may have trouble finding the envelope in my gymbag after poor Jim goes down. Much less likely he'll lose his wrist and bracelet.