have an emergency?
there’s an app for that!
Probably the only thing worse that losing your luggage, having your purse stolen, or getting lost while out of town is having a medical emergency when you are away from home. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Emergency Medicine Network just launched findER™, a free iPhone application that locates the closest emergency room to your current location, gives you directions, and offers additional information with a touch of the screen. FindER uses the iPhone’s global positioning system to direct patients to emergency rooms anywhere within the United States.

Travelers with chronic medical conditions and those traveling with friends or relatives with health problems show download it immediately. It’s also great for vacationing risk-takers (was it really a good idea to take your friend’s dare to cliff dive?).

FindERis available now as a free download in the iTunes app store.

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Forms4Travel, which provides forms for everything from kids traveling alone to permission slips for camp to insurance documents, has a clever new product, the Travel Stix. The 2GB storage device is actually a state-of-the-art credit card-shaped flash drive. Each one includes two or three travel or medical forms (you choose from 20 customized versions) which allow each family member to maintain a central and personally customized “go to” source.
Put important travel information, such as passport numbers, copies of certified birth certificates for children, driver’s license numbers, pictures of traveling children, prescriptions, immunization records, travel insurance documents and more on it. Each form allows you to type in your information and save it to your computer for use and future updates. No more searching around for important documents or retyping forms year after year. You won’t want to leave home without it.

Available at www.forms4travel.com.