Pulse Point App Public Service. It can also alert them to the location of the nearest automated external defibrillator (aed). The health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa) protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The goal is to increase the possibility that a victim.
The lbs capabilities of the app allow you to see your current location relative to the incidents occurring around you. Pulsepoint is a smartphone app designed to support public safety agencies working to improve cardiac arrest survival rates through improved bystander performance and active citizenship.
Pulsepoint empowers everyday citizens to provide lifesaving assistance to victims of sudden cardiac arrest.
Not all agencies use every available pulsepoint type. On a ‘cpr needed’ notification, the app reports only the address (in a public place) and a business name, if available. This renders all versions of the pulsepoint respond app prior to 4.8.0 inoperable. Nearly 1000 people die every day in the u.s.