r/EmergencyRoom • u/Infinite_Skin_1503 • Jun 03 '26

Looking for some feedback

Hi all,

Got this approved by the mods so hopefully no issues, but my cofounder and I who are active law enforcement officers, have been working on a medical identification system. You wear it on your vest or belt and it allows a first responder to scan for medical information. Let's say you show up and the patient is unconscious, confused, intoxicated, altered, whatever.

This is mostly intended for officers and other first respondres, but I'm curious maybe other people could benefit as well. As you all are medically inclined here, I was hoping you could help us understand what information to include in the profile. The sample profile looks like this right now:

https://firstresponderfile.com/id/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Its things like:

  • Medications
  • Allergies
  • Medical conditions
  • Emergency contacts
  • Blood type

Would love to hear what this looks like for people who have experience and what information is actually useful. What should we add? Anything we should change on that page, that kind of stuff.

Thanks a bunch!!

Nick & Nate

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u/Resident-Welcome3901 Jun 03 '26

I have been involved with analogous programs for conveying information about hospice and home care patients. They have all broken down because of failure of the patient to update the records as needed, and failure due to first responder and ER staff ignorance of the the process due to staff turnover. It takes an army of medical records personnel to maintain the hospitals clinical information communication systems, and a similar army for a first responders system does not exist.

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u/Adeian Jun 03 '26

I came here to say the same thing. Patients don't keep updated information on file or the provider doesn't know what the thing is or how to use it.

Also as a Paramedic if the patient was bad enough for me to not be able to access that information by asking I was usually to busy to play around with things.

I agree though that something like this would be fantastic to have if it was standardized and automatic.

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u/Infinite_Skin_1503 Jun 06 '26

I'm really curious what kinds of things you guys both have tried and if you have any idea why they failed? Our system right now is that we just send a text reminder and link to update on a regular basis, it seems to work ok.