51020 Public Profile and The Enhanced Medic Network Is How iB Works
You can feel good about taking one small, simple and inexpensive step toward emergency preparedness.
51020 Public Profile: Invisible Bracelet Works in All 50 States
The map below represents the cell phone coverage area that works with Invisible Bracelet. Members can share their iB public profile with first responders. In case of emergency, anyone with access to the member's iB identifier will be able to text the 8-digit iB PIN to 51020 and receive an instant emergency response text back (e.g., "John Doe. Diabetes Type 1. Medications: Insulin, Plavix. Allergies: Latex. ICE: Jane Doe 918 - 592 - 3722").
Enhanced Medic Network: First Responders Are Looking for Your Invisible Bracelet
The enhanced medic network includes communities where local EMS providers are licensed and trained to look for and use Invisible Bracelet. Medics log in to the iB search engine with their user name and password for read-only access to the patient's information (allergies, medications, In Case of Emergency (ICE) contacts). If ambulance transport is necessary, medics can notify up to ten ICE contacts of your choice with the push of a button.
Find out if your local EMS provider is on the enhanced medic network by visiting our coverage page. If you don’t find your local EMS provider, speak up with an email or a phone call and ask them to join our emergency communication service. It’s free for EMS providers to license and train on iB.
Invisible Bracelet (iB) is a Virtual Medical ID. Memberships are ten dollars per year.
Ten Dollars Well Spent
Whether you purchase an iB card and identifiers online or already have an iB card through other means, you can register your medical information and public profile through our secure online registration process. Memberships are ten dollars per year.
Below is a List of Places a Medic Might Look for Your Invisible Bracelet:
- iB Membership card behind a form of ID
- iB sticker on an insurance card
- iB sticker on medicine vials
- iB sticker on bike helmet
- iB sticker on phone
- iB fob on your key chain
- iB fob on a purse, gym bag, backpack or diaper bag
How Secure is iB?
iB is a voluntary web-based medical ID service that puts the patient in control of the information medics can access.
Docvia has invested a great deal into the protection of iB member data.
iB requires participating EMS providers to license our iB Medic search engine. The no-cost license is available to all EMS providers that meet our licensing, training and certification requirements. This ensures that only qualified medics are authorized to access your account and only during a medical emergency. When they do, they cannot change the data; it's read-only. Registered members are the only people able to update their iB account information (change list of medications, update new allergies, add an emergency contact).
iB is HIPAA-compliant and meets or exceeds state and federal patient privacy and security laws. We create audit logs every time your data is accessed. That way, we can guarantee a record of when a patient's data was viewed and by which authorized medic.
Your iB PIN is uniquely yours. After being randomly generated from about 20 billion potential combinations, you activate your PIN when you sign into your account and confirm the number on your iB membership card.
As an additional precaution, licensed EMS providers must verify the employee status of each of their medics. That way, medics that are no longer employed by the EMS provider do not have the ability to conduct iB PIN queries, ever.
