Originally Posted by
ckaspar
Yesterday I had to ride to my dad's to borrow his truck, mine is still in the shop and I needed to drop my little one off at school today. I hung out and BS'd with him for an hour or so. I load up the kids and start driving home. I am 1 minute from home and I get frantic text messages telling me to get a hold of my wife because she left her phone at work. I pulled up to the house to her freaking out wondering where I was and that is when it hit me. I have no way for EMS to notify her if I have been seriously hurt in an accident. What do you all use? I have seen Road ID but are there others or are they the best.
I have a printout with a brief medical history, emergency contact as well as the meds that I'm on that I carry in my first aid kit. I also have an I.C.E. entry on my smartphone, but considering that like most people I use the "lock" feature of my smartphone it really is useless. Which got me to thinking that phones should be programmed with a "master" pattern that first responders can use to unlock any smartphone.
RoadID (or even going to your local pet shop and getting a dog tag) with your info on it is probably not a bad idea. I think that IINM that RoadID now has a service that imprints a URL that first responders can use to pull the information that you want them to have.
I was thinking that what someone could do is to generate a standard bar code, a Qcode, and the MS code print them on both sides of a business card and pretty much do the same thing.