MYQER has been featured by Big Up Britain in an article highlighting British innovation and the story behind the platform.
The feature, titled British innovation MYQER helps strangers save lives in seconds, explores how MYQER began following founder Anita Boros’s experience when her young daughter suffered a severe allergic reaction, and the question that followed: what happens if an emergency happens again when family are not there to explain what someone needs?
That experience became the starting point for MYQER, My Quick Emergency Response, pronounced “my care”.
MYQER is designed to make important emergency information easier to access when somebody may be unable to explain it themselves. An Emergency Access Profile can include information such as allergies and reactions, medications, conditions, emergency contacts, communication needs, care preferences and other information the individual chooses to make available for an emergency.
The Big Up Britain feature also highlights MYQER’s approach to Online and Offline Emergency Access, multilingual support and privacy. MYQER is not a medical record, diagnostic service or medical device. Its purpose is much simpler: help make the information somebody has chosen to share available when it may be needed quickly.
For MYQER, being included by a publication focused on positive British stories and innovation was a welcome recognition of the problem the platform was created to address.
What began with one family’s experience continues to shape a broader aim: making emergency information more accessible for individuals, families, schools, workplaces and communities, while keeping control of that information with the person it belongs to.