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The useful thing about a physical insurance card is that everybody can read it when you're unresponsive and in need of help. A smartphone app is not going to be
by jvdh 14y ago
The useful thing about a physical insurance card is that everybody can read it when you're unresponsive and in need of help. A smartphone app is not going to be able to replicate that.
Only thing you could do is change your lock screen to include this kind of data (and/or a pointer).
- jessriedel 14y agoDo people honestly still believe this trope about the hospital needing your physical insurance card when you're unconscious? That they downgrade your emergency care if you don't have the good insurance? This is not a thing that happens. The physical card is so you have the info in a difficult-to-lose form when you go to a doctor's appt, check into the ER with a broken bone, etc.
- jack9 14y ago> Do people honestly still believe this trope about the hospital needing your physical insurance card when you're unconscious? That they downgrade your emergency care if you don't have the good insurance? This is not a thing that happens. You are correct. However, in an emergency room, time matters and mistakes happen. I suppose mistakes due to holes in information could be equated to a lower quality of care, since you get similar results. Someone giving me a common antibiotic like Tetracycline will kill me (that's just for starters on the list of personal perils). Unless they have the first page of my very thick historical charts or electronic medical record up on the screen with the allergies up at the top, I have a low chance of surviving when I'm unconscious.
- brechin 14y agoPlus... many places want to scan/photocopy your insurance card. I'm not sure how that would work from a smartphone screen.