History of Emg Card
In 1981, after spending decades in the mortuary business, transporting ill and injured individuals to trauma and emergency facilities, James Noel was motivated and inspired to create the EmgCard.
Jim observed that if critical personal medical information had been more readily available in those emergencies, it may have saved many lives. Medics and emergency responders could only provide basic limited treatment, because of what they did not know about the patient, especially if the patient was unable to speak to them. The first rule is to "do no harm".
The EmgCard was designed to provide that critical information to the physicians and emergency medical personnel, quickly and easily.
This is the emergency medical card that started it all
The EmgCard began as a wallet-sized paper booklet in 1981, and in 1983 the process was enhanced to include a paper file data warehouse, with 24 x 7 phone and fax-on-demand service provided by a toll-free phone number on the card.
The current version of the EmgCard was born in 2001, using a web-based system to enter, store and access the data. At this time, the wallet-sized compact disc format was introduced, to allow portability and immediate access to the data, as well as the ability for the subscriber to make updates to the database at any time.
There are over 300,000 subscribers to the current compact disc version of the EmgCard .
The company has now made available a program which allows organizations to market the EmgCard to its members and share in the profits generated from those sales.