emCall’s patented mobile personal emergency response service puts life-saving response at your fingertips – anywhere in the US. Below are a few frequently asked questions (FAQs).
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emCall supports two types of emergencies:
Both alarms transmit who you are, where you are, and what kind of help you need to our private 5-Diamond certified professional monitoring center 24/7, from anywhere in the United States.
A monthly subscription is required to use emCall. There is no hardware to buy and no long-term commitment. You can purchase for yourself and your loved ones from this page.
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emCall’s patented Medical Information Transfer Screen (MITS) technology was specifically designed for your smartphone. The health-related information that you have entered into our secure servers is transmitted back to your phone and locked on the home screen, ready for first responders to review – even if you’re unable to speak.
You can include details like pre-existing health conditions, last COVID-19 test, medical devices, insurance, preferred doctors and hospitals, prescriptions, allergies, and DNR contact instructions.
When you triple tap the Medical Help button, we automatically connect you to our professional alarm operator and transmit your health-related information back to you, creating a MITS screen on your phone. This screen stays displayed for first responders, preventing the phone from locking unless you actively choose to lock it. When paramedics arrive they have a huge head start seeing your personal medical profile!
Yes! The important health and personal information you enter will be safeguarded in our secure servers. It is not stored on your phone where unauthorized people might be able to access it.
es. Here is what you can expect from each alarm.
Medical Help: When you triple-tap the Medical Help button the emCall app will automatically call the alarm operator on speaker. After 15 seconds, your health-related information will display on your Medical Information Transfer Screen (MITS).
Once you have completed the call with the operator you can minimize the MITS screen and use your phone as you normally would. Reopening the emCall app and re-expanding the MITS screen will prevent your phone from locking again.
Police Help: When you triple-tap the Police Help button you will receive a call from our private alarm operator. If it is safe you answer, you can speak directly with the operator. When the call is over you can use your phone as you normally would. If you did not cancel the alarm using your correct Safe Word police will be sent to your phone’s geolocation.
emCall uses your smartphone’s location settings to transmit your phone’s geolocation to our private monitoring center.
When installing the app select “While Using the App” to allow emCall to access your location when you triple-tap Medical Help or Police Help.
You can also go to your smartphone’s “Settings,” tap “emCall,” tap “Location,” and select “While Using.”
Make sure to enable “Precise Location” to use your specific location. With this setting off, apps can only determine your approximate location.
Yes, provided there is a reliable cellular signal. After you triple-tap on Medical Help or Police Help emCall tracks your phone’s location every five seconds for one hour.
emCall will work anywhere in the United States where you have a reliable cellular or WiFi signal.
Yes, emCall will work if your phone is connected to WiFi.
After downloading emCall, you should put it on your smartphone main navigation bar or in the most easy to access place on your smartphone’s home screen.
iPhone watch and Android wearable extensions are in development.
Well, if you’re an emCall subscriber, all they have to do is look at your phone. Because as soon as you triple-tapped the Medical Help button, our secure servers instantly transmitted all the medical information that you’ve entered into your profile back to your smartphone and displayed it on our patented MITS Medical Information Transfer Screen. And that information is locked on the home screen, so that first responders can access it even if you can’t speak; even if you’re not conscious.
That information can be as extensive as you want: medical conditions, prescriptions you’re taking, medical devices such as pacemakers or insulin pumps, names of your doctors, and preferred hospital – even DNR information.
We can’t say too strongly how important it is that you enter as much medical information as possible, and update it whenever there are changes in your medical condition or in the drugs you are taking. Doing this only takes minutes – and those minutes mean the difference between getting the exact help you need and having to wait while the first responders try to diagnose you without any information.
And because the information is never stored on your phone, and only transmitted when you need it (and it disappears after 60 minutes) you can be sure that your personal medical history is protected.
emCall has partnered with COPS Monitoring – North America’s leading provider of professional monitoring services.
Their network of UL listed and Five Diamond certified monitoring centers is the largest in the industry and protects more than 3.4 million accounts.
Just as important as that network is the industry’s most highly trained staff. Every COPS operator has been through the proprietary Gradation program – the industry’s most rigorous training system. Operators receive 120 hours of classroom training, followed by many hours of one-on-one training with an experienced dispatcher in real-world situations. And the primary focus of all that training is the wellbeing of the people who need our support.
So, in an emergency, you can count on reaching a truly professional operator who will know exactly who you are, where you are, and how to respond to your needs.
But the best way to respond to a call for medical help is different from the best way to respond to a call for police help. Here’s what we do – and why.
When you triple-tap the Medical Help button, your app immediately initiates a phone call to a professional operator in the country’s leading 5-diamond monitoring center. You are connected directly to the operator, never put on hold in a waiting queue or forced to navigate a voice tree. Because you’re an emCall subscriber, the operator already knows who you are and where you are. And our geolocation technology updates every 5 seconds, so we can track you even if you’re in motion.
The operator confirms that you need medical help and then contacts the nearest first responders. (If you’re unable to speak, the operator immediately dispatches the first responders.) They already know who and where you are. If you are at home and have entered information about how to access your residence – gate codes, security codes, etc. – that information is given to the first responders. The operator can get in touch with the emergency contacts in your profile. And the operator can stay on the line with you if necessary until help arrives on the scene.
When you triple-tap the Police Help button, the protocol is completely different. In what is referred to as a Panic Situation, making a direct call to an operator can be dangerous. Why? Because if someone close by is threatening you, you might not be able to tell the operator what’s actually going on. That’s why, when the emergency signal reaches our monitoring center (in seconds), an operator will call you and ask for the Safe Word that you entered into your profile. If you are being threatened, you give a false Safe Word, and the operator knows that police should be dispatched immediately – but the person who is threatening you won’t know that. If the danger has passed and you want to cancel the call for police help, you give the correct Safe Word and the operator will know that no further action is necessary.
One additional important point – unlike in medical emergencies, the operator will not call your emergency contacts immediately. This is to protect them from getting involved in a serious police incident, which could involve the use of firearms. Instead, after a 30-minute delay, the operator will call those people for you.