Abstract: The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for an enhanced communication system for emergency departments. A system is configured to receive, from an emergency department device, registration information for a patient device, generate a unique identifier associated with the registration information, and provide the unique identifier to the emergency department device. The system is further configured to receive, from the patient device, a communication including the unique identifier and contact information and store, based on the communication, an entry for the patient device in a device database, wherein the entry for the patient device comprises the registration information and the contact information.