At sea and in port,
one tap.
Put on at check-in, it speaks the language of every port.
The ship's infirmary and the paramedics at the next port read the same RadPatch wrist band, each in their own language. Issued at check-in, it stays on the passenger's wrist until disembarkation.
For cruise lines and their infirmary teams, and for passengers, especially older travellers on long voyages who take several medicines a day.
A day from land, and nobody knows the medicine list
- The hospital can be a day's sailing away. Thousands of passengers depend on a small infirmary team, and many of them are older travellers.
- When a passenger collapses on deck, the infirmary does not know what he takes, and his partner, in shock, cannot recall the exact names. The pill boxes are down in the cabin.
- At every port of call the paramedics and the hospital speak a different language, and the passenger cannot explain himself to them.
- The travel insurance certificate is packed in a suitcase, crossing time zones blurs whether this morning's pills were taken, and in an unfamiliar port city nobody knows where the nearest emergency room is.
Day four, the pool deck
- Day 1
At the terminal check-in counter, Tom (72) and Linda receive logo wrist bands with their cabin cards, already written in manifest order by the line's Desktop Writer with the line's local office number. Before dinner, Linda holds her phone to Tom's band and writes in what she had entered at home in WaveMed, where Tom is one of her family members: blood type, his anticoagulant and diuretic with doses, his son's number and the travel insurer.
- Day 4 · 15:40
Tom collapses beside the pool. Linda, still in her swimsuit, cannot remember the exact names of his medicines, and her phone and his pill boxes are eight decks down in the cabin.
- 15:43
The infirmary's emergency team holds a phone with 𝒱WaveMed to the band on his wrist for one second: blood type, anticoagulant, diuretic, doses and his son's number. No connection is needed, even this far from land. Treatment begins in the infirmary.
- Day 5 · 08:10
At the next port Tom is transferred to hospital. Local paramedics hold phones with 𝒱WaveMed to the same band and read it in Spanish, then call the line's local office and Tom's son from the numbers it holds.
- Day 5 · 09:30
At the hospital desk, Linda opens Tom's travel insurance certificate full-screen from his document folder in WaveMed and switches his emergency report to Spanish. The band is still on his wrist.
One band, read on board, in port, in any language
- Issued at check-in: WaveMed Desktop and a Desktop Writer write logo RadPatch wrist bands in manifest order, with the line's local office number on every band. A silicone body with a sealed chip gives two layers of waterproofing against pools, sea water and showers, and with no battery to charge it can stay on for the whole voyage.
- A one-second read anywhere on board: on deck, in the restaurant or in a cabin, the infirmary team reads the band with 𝒱WaveMed, the app for paramedics, emergency responders and fire crews. Blood type, allergies, current medication, diabetes emergency information and emergency contacts appear. It only reads, and needs no internet, even far from land.
- Hand-over in the port's language: local paramedics and hospitals see the same details in their phone's language, one of 27, with nobody translating a medicine list at the gangway.
- No health database for the line: passengers write their own health details, stored encrypted on the band and limited to what they chose to put in. The line issues the band and registers its own contact; any change needs the four-digit PIN. Crew can be registered the same way.
- The free WaveMed app for the voyage: a medication schedule whose Completed marks show a missed dose even as time zones change, a 30-day blood pressure and heart-rate trend, travel insurance certificates in the document folder, an emergency report that switches to any of 27 languages, Medicine Finder with the INN for port pharmacies, and nearby medical centres with emergency rooms marked.
Wrist band, watch strap, sun hat: worn from check-in to disembarkation
From boarding to every port: the free WaveMed app
Real WaveMed app screens (demo data).
Where it is read
How to roll it out
- Pilot on one sailing: logo wrist bands, a Desktop Writer at the check-in counter and twenty minutes of reader-app training for the infirmary team.
- At check-in, WaveMed Desktop writes the bands in manifest order with the line's local office number; the line enters no health details. Crew are registered the same way (Path B).
- Passengers install the free WaveMed app, write their own blood type, allergies, medication and emergency contacts to the band, keep medication, blood pressure and insurance papers for themselves and their travelling partner, and update the band with the PIN if a medicine changes (Path A).
- Build the port partner-hospital and local-office contact chain together, then review infirmary response times and passenger feedback after the sailing before extending fleet-wide.
Frequently asked questions
Does the line have to store passenger health data?
No. The information is only on the passenger's band; the line issues it and registers its own contact. The infirmary only reads.
Can passengers wear it in the pool and the sea for the whole voyage?
Yes. The silicone body and sealed chip give two layers of waterproofing against pools, sea water and showers, and with no battery there is nothing to charge.
Does it work far from land, or in a port where nobody speaks the passenger's language?
Yes. Reading needs no internet: a current smartphone with 𝒱WaveMed or WaveMed is held to the band for one second, and the details appear in the reader's phone language, one of 27.
Get the apps
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