| Website | polka.com |
| Blog | blog.polka.com |
| Category | Web |
| Phone | 510 528 4665 |
| Employees | 4 |
| Founded | 4/07 |
Polka is a secure aggregation and collaboration service to help users manage their health, backed by Polka’s core My Health, My Team portal and the belief that data portability begins with “me.”
WHY IT IS IMPORTANT AND COMPELLING Today’s complex healthcare system grapples with outdated paper systems and unconnected, diverse IT systems, resulting in a lack of timely, accurate information and collaboration, as well as costly financial and treatment errors in patients’ healthcare. All of us deal with difficult, if not impossible, access to our own health information and archaic ways to communicate with our health team.
Polka keeps users’ health information up-to-date and available anytime, anywhere – whether it’s for routine check-ups, daily prescription and supplement tracking, during the critical moment of emergencies, or seamless sharing and communication within users’ core team of family, friends, and health professionals.
THEIR CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE PLANS Polka currently provides individual, go-to-market applications for consumers that not only meet the needs to better manage their health, but could save their lives. They have several modes of applications so users can simply and easily access information at their fingertips across platforms – whether it’s via mobile, the web, or right in their own wallets with paper or plastic cards.
They released our first application, the free Emergency Card, on Polka.com in June. They are offering a version of the Emergency Card application for the iPhone at a price of $2.99 on the iTunes App Store. Polka is connecting the Emergency Card to our core portal “My Health, My Team,” along with other applications including an allergy tracker, prescription tracker, and advocate management, along with other customer driven requests.
ABOUT POLKA’S TECHNOLOGY Polka is a secure, scalable framework that was designed as an encompassing service for the individual, as a person, connecting to the network. Polka creates every service with the user at the center and data portability top of mind. They believe that the user, or “me,” should be centralized because they are the definitive point of control, change, and decision-making.
Security is an utmost priority, demonstrated by our patented secure protocols focusing on information integration across a host of online and offline systems. Their patent-pending Me Server technology acts as a designated agent, and provides a repository, back-up, and integration of key web and non-web health data to give extreme results in publishing and sharing information.
| Website | polka.com |
| Blog | blog.polka.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 10, 2008 |
Polka’s Emergency Card application stores your important health and contact information on the iPhone and makes it accessible when you need it most during the critical moments of an emergency.
With your Emergency Card for iPhone 1.0, you can:
Add emergency contacts for fast and easy access to names and phone numbers
Save key information about yourself for sharing with emergency tech providers on the phone
Find hospitals closest to your location
Generate a wallet-sized, printable PDF of your Emergency Card and information, the print card can be updated on web to add allergies, current medications, insurance, and other pertinent health information to inform emergency technicians quickly and accurately
