Submitted by PrivIT
When the London Knights, London Lightning, and Fanshawe College Falcons started their seasons, they all had one thing in common – their athlete health profiles were completed using a new software system created in London.
PrivIT, founded in 2005, has been slowly building an international reputation in the sports medicine world. PrivIT offers organizations a patented, secure, easy to use, online system called e-PPE (electronic pre-participation evaluation), to help athletes, parents, and medical professionals collect, protect, and share personal health information. Their system was used at the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics, and with FIFA. The organization now has a solution directed at the youth market for students or athletes in any level of sport or activity.
“e-PPE eliminates filling out pages and pages of medical forms by hand, over and over, with the same information for each athletic program,” said Sally Johnson, the executive director of the National Council of Youth Sports (NCYS) in the US, which has endorsed PrivIT. “In addition, if families have more than one child involved in a sport, e-PPE transfers the family history and contact information over to the other child automatically! The PrivIT e-PPE product simplifies parents’ lives in a confident, secure, and responsible way.”
Doug Stacey, medical liaison with Hockey Canada and physiotherapist for the London Knights, also appreciates the ease of the system in tracking a player’s health history.
“The information can follow them year over year, and I have instant access to it,” Stacey said. “This would be a great system for athletes of any age in any sport.”
Jeff Fischer, co-founder of the company and president of Canadian operations, says that the system can be used anywhere personal health profiles are completed.
“We have just launched a version for fitness club members with the YMCA here in London,” Fischer said. “The response has been fantastic. Think of how many times in a year you fill out a form giving you or your family’s allergies, medications and immunizations? This eliminates doing that over and over again, and it allows you to access it anywhere, anytime, and in a privacy compliant manner.”
