Life Happens

It is natural that when we think of chronic illness or injury that we think of it in the hospital or healthcare setting, but that's not where we live. We live our lives in the real world as we lead our active lives. At White Pine Systems, we are dedicated to giving value to our members by offering services and products that fit your lifestyle.

One of the tremendous advantages of connecting SPINNphr to Microsoft HealthVault is that we can work with other HealthVault developers to offer new and innovative solutions that go beyond the purely medical setting. We expect to integrate SPINN with many of these offerings to give you the greatest possible range of products and services through SPINNphr. You can learn more about these at Microsoft's HealthVault site.

SPINN for Sports & Recreation

At White Pine Systems, we are big believers in healthy lifestyles. We are committed to developing solutions that bring the benefit of personal health records systems to any setting.

Our first healthy lifestyle application is the SPINN Medical Event Tracking Application (SPINN META) which is designed for races, triathlons and other sporting events. We've formed a partnership with ChronoTrack Systems, LLC, a premier provider of timing systems used at races across the country. The ChronoTrack road race timing system, with its "D" timing tag, allows race organizers to print an integrated bib and tag for each participant, encoding the runner's bib number into the tag's RFID chip at the time of printing. The peel-off, disposable portion of the bib becomes a tag that runners attach to their shoes. Times are recorded when the runner crosses a mat at the starting line, finish line and other points along the route, resulting in accurate timing for individual runners.

In a medical emergency, the same timing tags can be scanned by medical staff using the SPINN META installed on an off-the-shelf PDA with an RFID reader. SPINN META will retrieve and present the runner's personal health information. Medical staff can also enter information about the medical emergency including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and disposition. This information can be viewed on-line by hospital staff.

In addition to providing critical information to the medical staff, SPINNphr can be programmed to automatically send an email or text message to the runner's friends or family, letting them know that the runner is receiving medical attention and providing them with information about how to contact the healthcare provider.

We are always interested in adding races and events to use this application. If you are an event organizer who would like to use SPINN META, please contact us.