"My father has had two heart attacks that have resulted in a triple bypass. I am a trauma nurse and have seen the problems that take place when patients can’t remember their medical histories. Although my father is only 57 years old, he just is not tuned in to what medications he is taking. He used to go to the ER with his baggie full of pill bottles, but he now has a complete and accurate listing of his medications on LifeKey.

Last year he went into the emergency room presenting heart symptoms, only to discover it was indigestion. Unfortunately, because he has a damaged heart, his EKG does not appear normal. By having copies of his old EKGs, the ER doctor was able to rule out another heart attack and send him home without having to keep him overnight in the hospital. This saved over $2,000 in medical charges and gave us all peace of mind."

"I have a daughter who is allergic to peanuts; she could die if she ate a peanut and she would need immediate medical attention. Although both her mother and I are physicians, we can’t always be around. She has a LifeKey that includes all our emergency numbers, authorization to treat her in an emergency, and her complete medical history. Although I hope that Sophie never needs to use her LifeKey, I am comforted in knowing that in an emergency, the first responders will have all the critical medical information they need to save her life, thanks to LifeKey."

"An all too frequent and potentially life threatening handicap is my inability to access critical health care information in a timely fashion. Details I need to make decisions within minutes can literally take days or weeks to obtain. Every heart patient should have a LifeKey"

“It is commonplace for patients to present to the ED without any real knowledge of their own prior medical conditions, medications, allergies, prior diagnostic testing other than "I have heart disease" or "I have diabetes" or "I take the little blue pill twice a day".

In the fast-paced world of ED, critical decisions are often made in the first few minutes and ED physicians are often faced with the dilemma of having to make a choice without knowing everything they would like to.

I see LifeKey as a simple, portable, universally acceptable way of bridging the ED information gap. Its immediate impact would be to quickly allow any ED provider to gain access to the necessary information regarding a critical patient allowing real-time informed medical decision making.”