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.
How it works
Before you go, during treatment, and back home.
Your records stay encrypted on your phone at every stage. The site and a person help you plan around them.
- 01Before you go
Start your record today.
- Setting it up takes one sitting: your history, medications, allergies and scans. Photograph a letter and the app reads the text for you. After that, you only add what is new.
- Check your passport's expiry date against the entry rules of the country you are visiting.
- Compare clinics and indicative prices across countries. Compare costs
- Check how the country's law treats your health data. Is my data safe there?
- Find what your medicines are called there, and whether they need declaring at the border.
- Ask a person when you'd rather talk it through. Concierge
- 02During treatment
Hand the doctor your history.
- Choose what the doctor sees and share it by link or QR code, for 24 hours.
- The doctor sees one screen written for them: what you take now and your recent lab values.
- Your emergency card opens offline, with aircraft mode on.
- Send family one read-only link that expires by itself.
- 03Back home
Your next doctor starts where the last one stopped.
- Photograph the reports from the clinic abroad and add them to your timeline.
- Appointments, symptoms and documents stay in the order they happened.
- Any doctor, in any country, sees the whole story.
A small ritual for peace of mind: add new results while you wait for the doctor, and your record is ready wherever you go next.
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
Seeing a new doctor.
- Show a doctor
- The button in the middle of the app: choose what the doctor sees and share it by link or QR code. The doctor can open it for 24 hours. A link cannot be cancelled yet, and whoever opened it may have saved what they saw.
- 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.
The emergency card works offline: no signal, no internet, nothing sent anywhere.
- 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.
- Help
- One tab for a hard moment: the local emergency number, one tap to your person, help abroad — and 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.
- What you share with a doctor opens for 24 hours, and you choose what goes into it.
- A backup is one encrypted file you keep on a computer, a USB stick or a memory card.
- 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. Comparing it with email, cloud links and clinic portals? Read how to send medical records safely.
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.
Questions
Before you start.
Is Private Health Passport a travel clinic?
Private Health Passport is a private app for your own medical records, with a platform to compare care abroad and a person to ask. Vaccinations, prescriptions and clinical care come from your doctors and clinics.
Who can read my medical records?
You, and a doctor you choose to show them to. Your records are encrypted on your own phone under a passphrase only you hold, and Private Health Passport keeps no copy.
I live between countries. Is it for me?
Yes. Your record lives on your own phone, so it moves with you when you do, and a doctor in any country can read it in minutes. The same goes for expats and anyone who splits the year between homes.
What if my medical documents are in different languages?
The app reads the text of letters and prescriptions on the phone itself. In any language, keep the original document in your record as well, so a doctor who reads the language sees it as written.
What if I lose my phone?
The records on it stay encrypted, and whoever finds the phone sees locked data. Save an encrypted backup from the app to a computer, a USB stick or a memory card, and restore it on a new phone from the app's first screen. Keep your passphrase written down somewhere separate.
What if I forget to update it?
Your record holds everything up to the last thing you added. Make updating a small ritual: add new results while you wait for the doctor, and your record stays ready.
Is the app free?
The Medical ID is free: blood type, allergies, conditions, medicines and an emergency contact, readable from your lock screen. Your full record and the travel tools are part of a paid plan in the app. It needs no account or email address.