Personal information system

Abstract

Systems and methods realize the benefit of portable storage devices by taking advantage of PCs including an optical disk drive, optical disks, such as a CD or a DVD, and the Internet. An individual patient provides personal data to a healthcare service center. The healthcare service center can then create a portable optical disk for the patient to carry. The personal data written onto the portable optical disk is stored on a database management server database and is readable and updateable by the individual patient using his/her PC with an optical disk drive and connected to the Internet. The individual patient can choose to update his/her personal data on the portable optical disk and can receive a new portable optical disk that includes the update. The new portable optical disk containing the latest update is created and delivered to the patient by the database management server.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A personal information system, comprising:
 a subscriber computer with an optical disk drive;   a portable optical disk readable by the optical disk drive, wherein all information recorded on the portable optical disk is configured to be removed by a user;   a database management server comprising a database including personal data and an optical disk writer wherein the optical disk writer writes the personal data to the portable optical disk said personal data being viewable and downloadable by the subscriber computer; and   a subscriber interface comprising an Internet web browser wherein the Internet browser is used to view personal data on the portable optical disk and to update the personal data stored on the database management server.