The World Medical Card is a physical medical ID card and app that holds your vital information. Medical professionals and first responders can use the information it contains to provide you with fast and accurate treatment in case of an emergency. Membership helps minimise the time before you receive treatment anywhere in the world.
The World Medical Card is developed using the World Health Organization’s global standards codes (ICD-11 and ATC). Once members sign up online, they can upload their up-to-date medical information, including medicines and prescriptions, surgeries and implants, vaccines, allergies, donor status, X-rays or hospital records, photos of non-prescription medications, diagnoses, insurance details and emergency contacts.
The World Medical Card ensures that health professionals and pharmaceutical personnel globally understand your condition and requirements. It is for your safety in everyday life and when travelling and could save your life.
The Medical ID Card
When you sign up, we will also send you your unique World Medical Card, which will contain all your medical information sealed inside.
In an emergency where power or the internet is unavailable, a medical professional can obtain your card and access your medical history to ensure speedy and accurate treatment.
Your medical information is coded according to the World Health Organization’s global standards (ICD-11, ATC), which are recognised globally to ensure that health professionals and pharmaceutical personnel worldwide understand your condition and requirements.
Your medical alert card has a unique password for emergency access to your profile to avoid misunderstandings about your health and achieve fast and correct medical treatment.
We recommend that you always keep The World Medical Card on your person.
Why the World Medical Card was Developed
Arne Veidung, the inventor of the World Medical Card, first envisaged the idea when his father was travelling to Spain. His father encountered difficulty obtaining the essential medication he required, namely the heart medicine Marevan, unaware that its active ingredient is known as Warfarin. This resulted in him not receiving the necessary treatment due to the variance in brand names of medications across different countries.
If he had the World Medical Card with him, then this delay and uncertainty (and possible dangerous outcome) in obtaining the correct heart medication would not have happened.
Arne Veidung said, “I would like to see this stupid communication problem, that ultimately can cause deaths, disappear forever.”
World Medical Card is for your safety in everyday life and when travelling. Join the thousands of global members today!
