Every posting, a new language.
Your record already speaks it.
The posting changes. The record on your wrist doesn't.
Every posting changes the hospital. The blood type, allergies, medication and embassy contact of a diplomat and every family member are read by paramedics in any country, in their own language. The record is in your own hands, not on a server.
For diplomats and their families, embassy, consulate and international-organisation staff, expatriates posted abroad, and NGO teams sent to conflict and disaster zones.
Every posting breaks the record
- Diplomats and expatriates move countries every few years, and each time the medical record breaks. The hospital at the new post cannot see home records.
- In an emergency, language fails first. At a reception or in the street, local staff and paramedics do not share your language, and you may not be able to speak at all.
- Sensitive identity information cannot be put on a foreign server, so handing your record to someone else's system is never an option.
- The family moves too: the new school asks for the children's proof of vaccination, and the spouse's prescription records and home-hospital papers are requested, and paid for, all over again at every change of posting.
Geneva, a conference reception
- Before the posting
Before leaving for Geneva, the embassy writes the patches for counsellor Gabriel and his family with WaveMed Desktop and a reader: blood type, heart medication, a contrast allergy, the embassy duty number and a family number at home. Gabriel's goes on his watch strap. His wife Mira adds each family member in the free WaveMed app and imports his home-hospital prescription PDF and the children's vaccination certificates.
- 20:30
During the reception Gabriel collapses with chest pain. He does not respond, and the local staff around him do not know his language.
- 20:32
A locally hired embassy security officer holds his phone to the blue cross on the watch strap for one second. Heart medication, contrast allergy and the embassy duty number appear in his own language, French. He calls the local emergency number, then the duty number on the screen.
- 20:45
The paramedics confirm the same patch with 𝒱WaveMed in one second; it reads and changes nothing. They leave for hospital already knowing about the heart medication and the contrast allergy.
- 21:10
Told the hospital's name at once by the security officer, the embassy duty officer calls Mira and the family at home. At the hospital, Mira opens Gabriel's record on her own phone, shows the home prescription PDF and hands over his emergency report switched to French. The hospital treats him knowing his medication.
The record on the body, read in their language, kept off any server
- Where a diplomat always has it: RadPatch on the watch strap, dress shirt and phone case, and a wallet-sized RadCard™ in the same data format. Anyone holds a current smartphone to the blue cross for one second and blood type, allergies, current medication, diabetes emergency information and contacts appear in the reader's language. 27 languages, no battery, no internet, no login.
- The embassy on every patch: every family member's patch carries the embassy duty number and a family number at home, so whoever reads it reaches one of them at once. The whole family is registered together, down to the children's allergies and school and the spouse's medication list.
- Never on a foreign server: the information is encrypted inside the patch only, holds only what you chose, is read only by WaveMed-family apps and is never uploaded anywhere. 𝒱WaveMed, for paramedics, emergency responders and fire crews, can only read; changing anything takes your four-digit PIN.
- Same patch, new country: nothing to reissue when the posting changes. In the free WaveMed app each family member's vaccination records with lot numbers and attached certificates, home-country PDFs and expatriate insurance certificates stay on the device, not a server, so nothing expires or locks when you move.
- From day one at the new post: the emergency report rebuilt on the spot in any of 27 languages, Medicine Finder with the English INN for medicines that go by another name, nearby medical centres with emergency rooms marked, and local ride services in around 60 countries. Crew can read the patch on long flights, and one phone reads it in conflict or disaster postings with no communication.
Watch strap, dress shirt, phone case: at every reception
Before the posting and at the new post: the free WaveMed app
Real WaveMed app screens (demo data).
Where it is read
How to roll it out
- Pilot at one mission: the administration office registers staff and families in list order with WaveMed Desktop and a reader, using only the details each person has agreed to share, and adds the embassy duty number (Path B).
- Security and administrative staff, locally hired staff included, learn to read a patch with the reader app in twenty minutes of training.
- Families keep their own records in the free WaveMed app and update their patch with their PIN when medication, school or contacts change (Path A).
- Write the hand-over for changes of posting (new duty number, a check of each family member's patch) into a documented procedure and extend it to every mission, international organisation and NGO team.
Frequently asked questions
Does identity information end up on an external server?
No. It is encrypted inside the patch only, read only by WaveMed-family apps, and never uploaded anywhere.
Do I need a new patch when I am posted to another country?
No. The patch stays the same when the country changes, and the hospital and paramedics at the new post read it in their language. When the duty number or your medication changes, update it with your PIN.
Can my spouse and children be registered too?
Yes. The whole family is registered at once, and every patch carries the embassy duty number and a family number at home. In the WaveMed app, one phone keeps each family member's records apart.
Get the apps
Before the next posting, start today with the free WaveMed app, and talk to us about a pilot at one mission.