| Summary: | The open source medical passport presented in this study consists of a near-field communication (NFC) tag and an Android application. The app works with structured and normalized data and allows the user to write the tag with relevant medical information, such as health conditions, allergies, recent diseases, blood type, health insurance, medication, as well as other important information including: emergency contact, birth year, nationality, among others. The tag can be read using the app or with another NFC app. The information recorded in the tag can be reliably translated to the reader’s language due to information normalization. The reader of the tag will be a health professional, who will make use of the information recorded by the patient in order to provide a better medical care or act more adequately in emergency situations. The prototype presented includes an offline operation mode, especially envisioned for primary care in remote locations. The whole project has been developed with the support of the UBORA e-infrastructure, a sort of universal “Wikipedia” for open source medical devices, which guides designers through the whole development cycle. All the development information of the medical passport project is made available through such online infrastructure.
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