The universal health card
QR code and NFC, ABHA linked, personalised per beneficiary. Under EPIC, a 32 GB SD-chip enabled card that is FHIR compliant for storing medical records including CT and MRI.
What is on it, and what is behind it
Three arguments
It works when nothing else does
No network, no app, no login. A printed panel and a QR code function in a power cut at a district hospital.
It is understood immediately
A card is a familiar object. A cloud record is not. Adoption in the populations we serve depends heavily on this.
It carries the imaging
Under EPIC, the 32 GB chip means a CT or MRI study travels with the patient rather than staying on a disc in a drawer.
Four routes, in order of availability
NFC tap
Any NFC-capable phone, no application required.
QR scan
Opens the emergency view in a browser.
ABHA lookup
A connected facility retrieves the linked record, with consent.
Printed panel
Blood group, allergies and emergency contact, printed. Works with no technology at all.
What a lost card exposes
The emergency minimum, and nothing more
A card that is found by a stranger exposes the emergency view: blood group, allergies, conditions, medications and an emergency contact. It does not expose the clinical history, which requires consent. This is a deliberate trade: the emergency view is the whole point of the card, and a card that requires authentication in an emergency is useless.
Issue cards to your population.
Included in both programmes.