The app
Everything the app does.
Private Health Passport is an app and a platform. The app keeps your medical record on your own phone. The platform is where you find care in a given country, see what it costs, and reach someone who answers.
It is built for the appointment where you are the new one in the room: a clinic in a city you reached yesterday, a specialist meeting you for the first time.
The shape is the one private banking already taught you. An app in your pocket, a platform behind it, and a person who replies.
First run
The first two minutes.
Opening the app starts you on setup. Five screens, and at the end of them you are looking at your own emergency card.
- 01
Welcome
A short look at what the app is for.
- 02
Privacy
How the encryption works, before you put anything in.
- 03
Who it covers
Set it up for yourself, or for your family as well.
- 04
Your card
A sample emergency card, so you see the end result before you type anything.
- 05
Your passphrase
You choose it, and it stays with you alone. It is what unlocks the vault.
With a doctor
When a doctor asks.
- Handshake
- Open a sharing session and hand the doctor your record on the spot. It runs between the two devices, so it works in a basement clinic with one bar of signal.
- Doctor view
- One screen written for the clinician rather than for you: what you take now, and your recent lab values.
- Scan a document
- Photograph a discharge letter or a prescription and the app reads the text on the phone itself, in English, French, Spanish, Russian or German.
- Timeline
- Appointments, symptoms, biomarkers and documents in the order they happened, so “when did this start” has an answer.
Crossing
Before you cross.
The rules on carrying a prescription change at every frontier, and they are written for customs officers rather than for travellers.
- Medication declarations
- Check whether something you carry needs declaring, a permit, or a doctor’s letter for the country you are entering. Each entry names the authority behind it, and where official sources disagree the app shows you both readings.
- Local equivalents
- Find what your prescription is called where you are going, and whether a local prescription is needed for it. It gives you the names to say to a pharmacist.
Emergencies
In an emergency.
- Emergency QR
- The card is encoded inside the QR code itself, so it reads on a paramedic’s phone with the aircraft mode still on.
- Safety Net
- A two-second hold reveals the card. It shows blood type, allergies and your contact by default, and you decide whether to add more.
- A link for family
- Send one read-only status link to whoever is looking after you. It expires by itself, and its contents ride in the part of the address that browsers keep off the network.
Family
More than one person.
Each person you add gets their own encrypted vault inside the app, with their own medications, documents and emergency card. You switch between them from the same screen.
It is how most people end up using it: one person abroad, and someone at home who keeps the record current.
Privacy
How the privacy works.
- Your vault is encrypted with AES-256-GCM. The key is derived from your passphrase through PBKDF2, one hundred thousand rounds.
- The passphrase is held by you. Only the salt is kept, on your own device.
- Document scanning runs inside your browser, with the recognition engine served from our own origin.
- A sharing session with a doctor runs entirely between the two devices in the room.
- A caregiver link carries its data in the fragment of the URL, which browsers keep out of every request.
The encryption layer is built by Zkomi.
The platform
Finding care where you are.
The app travels with you. The platform is the half that knows where you have landed — which hospitals take international patients, what a procedure runs to there, who to write to first.
BrazilCzech RepublicFranceIndiaJapanMalaysiaMexicoPolandQatarSingaporeSouth KoreaSwitzerlandThailandTurkeyUAEUnited Kingdom
What a provider entry can carry:
- Specialties
- Treatments and services
- Location
- International patient services
- Indicative pricing where available
- Credentials and accreditation
- Contact information
Concierge
Ask a person.
The concierge sits alongside the app. You write, and the answer comes back from someone who has read it.
Ask privatelyOpen it.
The app opens on setup and walks you through it. Your passphrase is the last step, and your emergency card is ready the moment it is done.