Jewish Mothers Rejoice, Single Daughters Can Now Pinpoint Precise Location of Nearby Doctors on iPhone
What iTriage is designed for is connecting sick people with both useful information related to thier malady, and the medical care facilities or doctors best equipped to help them. Think of it as a location aware WebMD meets Google Maps.
So it could work like this… lets say this afternoon you start to notice you have a sharp pain in you stomache during a business trip to New Orleans. It could have been that Lucky Dog you had at the airport, but somehow it feels different. You fire up iTriage and sort through 10 most common sources of stomache pain and their various descriptions and symptoms, and decide that it very well might be Appendicitis. After your self diagnosis you decide you need to do something now! The application lets you click through to either connect with a nurse or doctor advice line over the phone to quickly get a second professional opinion or immediately locate the nearest medical facility equipped to deal with your problem… in this case so you can proceed quickly to the closest hospital emergency room.
No doctors with GPS locators hanging off their belts yet, but it’s a step in the right direction to pull together many of the pieces needed to help someone through a medical emergency situation.
There is still some work to be done on the application which is too heavy with medical jargon and menus, and seems to have a split personality between being a critical emergency response tool and a more general health and medical guide for dealing with wide reaching problems such as alcohol and child abuse and cavities which are also covered.
Its listed at the $0.99 “we’re still figuring it all out” price, and it sounds like a lot of the shortfalls are already being worked on, which is good news. I now have it loaded up, but hope I never need to use it.
