World Medical Card® is for you if you’re serious about your safety while abroad – it could save your life.
The World Medical Card® is a physical card and App that holds your vital medical information. Medical professionals can use it to provide you with fast and accurate treatment in case of an emergency anywhere in the world.
Here are nine reasons to have a World Medical Card®: to feel safer and better prepared for unpredicted challenges at home or abroad.
1. Always Available
With the World Medical Card®, you can access your medical information at all hours of the day and night through the App on your phone or a physical card.
2. User-controlled Information
You choose what medical information you want to upload. The App and card allows you to enter the following:
- Medicines
- Prescriptions
- Surgeries, post-surgery challenges and implants
- Vaccines
- Allergies
- Donor status
- X-rays or hospital records
- Photos of non-prescription medicines
- Diagnoses
- Insurance details
- Health challenges that are not registered with your doctor – such as sore shoulder or neck problems
- Emergency contacts
3. Information That is Easy to Share
You choose who you want to share your vital information with via the App.
It provides security and removes anxiety, as you can share your medical profile with your relatives, employers, agents and medical staff.
If you are travelling, you can choose to share with your travel companion temporarily so that they can help you if a medical challenge should arise.
4. Provide Support to Relatives
The World Medical Card® allows you to help your parents or dependents who lose track of their medications. If they have shared their medical profile with you, you can quickly explain their needs to the pharmacist, doctor, or others at home and abroad.
5. Understood Globally
The medical information you upload is coded according to World Health Organization (WHO) standards, which ensures that healthcare professionals understand your medical needs anywhere in the world, 24/7.
If you run out of medicine and do not know what it is called in the country you are in, you can show the App and get the right medicine.
In addition, diagnoses, medicines, and allergies are translated into 135 languages.
6. Fast Access to Emergency Contact
In the App, you can enter any emergency information you wish. Rather than just the next of kin, you can include multiple persons from relatives, therapists, your General Practitioner, or other health professionals in case of an emergency.
7. Donor Information
You can enter a photo of your donor card to have all the information gathered in one place.
8. Travel Insurance Documents
In your World Medical Card® profile, you can easily include information about your travel insurance, which shows in full on the App and in brief on the card. You can also add other relevant documents, such as passport copies. Everything you might need is easily accessible.
9. World Medical Card®
World Medical Card® makes accessing your vital medical information easy. It’s a clever tool that prepares you for the unexpected. It’s intelligent, easy to use and secure. It could help to save your life!
