Medical assistance services in the nature of medical information provided to medical professionals from remote locations via the Internet and global computer networks through the use of archived medical images and a data storage and retrieval system; maintaining personal medical history records and files; providing medical information; 24-hour response center which provides medical information to emergency medical personnel and allows members to update their medical/personal files; providing an Internet web site featuring medical information for medical professionals and medical patients that allows for the exchange of medical information from remote locations using devices that feed medical information to the web site that is then processed and can be accessed in real-time by users