In Case of Emergency

The emergency card

An emergency card is what a doctor or a stranger sees when someone can't speak for themselves. It opens from a small scannable code — or a short code read aloud — with no app, login or passcode.

Helping someone right now?

Scan the ✚ code, or type it here (it's on their wallet card, phone lock screen or band):

What the emergency card shows

Only the emergency card — never the person's other records.

How it works

  1. Build the card in Go Green: Health Vault. Blood group, medicines and conditions fill in from your reports; you add allergies and contacts.
  2. Turn on the code and carry it — set it as your lock-screen wallpaper, print the wallet card, or add an NFC sticker or band.
  3. In an emergency, whoever helps scans the code (or types it on this page) and sees the card straight away — no passcode needed.

Private by design

  • Only the card is shared. The code opens the emergency card and nothing else in your vault.
  • You choose what appears. Leave medicines, conditions or notes off the card if you prefer.
  • You can switch it off. Make a new code any time and the old one — and any printed copy — stops working.
  • It's your choice to be findable. The code exists so that whoever helps you, can.
Make an emergency card for your family.
One for each member — including the elders whose records matter most.
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An emergency card is an organised aid for an emergency, not a medical record or a diagnosis. Responders should verify critical details where possible; blood group is always reconfirmed before transfusion.

Emergency card — In Case of Emergency (ICE) code — Go Green: Health Vault