Polka’s first iPhone™ application – the iPhone Emergency Card – is making a stellar debut with Apple’s revolutionary App Store. It is one of the few applications to go live with their new store announced today. Powered by Polka’s Me Services™ and Me Server™, the iPhone Emergency Card provides essential life-saving information on the extremely popular iPhone and iPod® touch devices.   You can read the entire release here at BusinessWire. (free account required).  Or read our first article, By Dennis Sellers, at Macsimum News.
About Polka’s iPhone Emergency Card
Polka’s iPhone Emergency Card for the iPhone and iPod touch is available worldwide for $2.99 today and can be downloaded from the Apple App Store at www.itunes.com/appstore/.
Polka’s iPhone Emergency Card stores users’ important health and contact information securely and makes it accessible anytime, anywhere, and when they need it most during the critical moments of an emergency. Too often, hospital and doctors’ IT systems are diverse and unconnected, creating a scenario where a patient’s basic information must be collected from scratch. A simple, yet possibly life-saving, solution like the iPhone Emergency Card provides vital information at users’ and emergency technicians’ fingertips.
iPhone and iPod touch users can create the iPhone Emergency Card in a matter of minutes, and detail important personal information, including emergency contacts, blood type, and more. Users can access maps to nearest hospitals and medical centers seamlessly within the application. In addition, iPhone users can print a wallet-sized version of their card as a back-up and hard copy.
How the iPhone Emergency Card Works
Once you’ve downloaded the application, here are some step-by step instructions and pointers to help with any lingering questions:
- Once you install the Emergency Card on your phone, it will ask you to Edit your information. Put in your contacts by selecting them from your iPhone contact list and key medical information in the edit screen. Â
- You are now ready to go. Click on the “Call” button next to your contact to immediately start dialing them.   (on iPod touch the number is displayed with no “Call” button)
- To see a map of closest hospitals to your location, click on “Map Closest Hospitals.†It will ask your permission to use your location, and will then locate the closest matches for hospitals in your location using the iPhone Google Map interfaces.  Â
- To send yourself a card for printing, go to Edit Profile page and select “Create Printable Version”. It will ask for an email address to send the card and for you to set a password. You will be sent a card in email, which will also have a link to Polka’s website that you can logo-n and edit the card if needed.
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Why are not allergies seen on the screen along with contacts. This information is just as important and could easily be more important. I am allergic to the two most prescribed antibiotics. This information should be front and center on the screen.
Definitely agree! Allergies list is a must-have.
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