[rtrivedi]

While on vacation, I spoke to a mother who often had to be aware of emergency rooms around her because her child had health problems. I built this simple app for her. It's my first app and I'm looking for suggestions on how to make it better. Right now it only works in the USA but I'm hoping to expand to Canada very soon.

[philo23]

Not sure if it'll be much help, but you might be able to find and scrape data from here: http://data.gov.uk/data/search to do something similar for the UK, I can't seem to find it though.

[DanBC]

Except general people should be using pharmacists; in-hours GPs or out of hours doctors and walk-in-centres; and minor injuries units. A&E should be reserved for emergency care. There's a very small percentage of people who need an A&E department and this app would be great for them, but please don't send people who are not in an emergency to A&E.

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/Pages/NHSservi...

http://www.choosewellglos.nhs.uk/

[rtrivedi]

Thanks for the links. I'd like to help build a world where people have access to useful information as easily as possible. Of course, with ease of access to information people will need to become more responsible. I'm hopeful we can get there :)

[rtrivedi]

Cool! I'll take a look :)

[ghufran_syed]

I'm an ER physician, this is a great idea for an app. It would be good to discuss further, I have sent you a connect request on linked in, thanks!

[md2be]

I'm developing something in the ER space, also in LA, will reach out via linkedin

[rtrivedi]

Great!

[rtrivedi]

Cool! Let's talk :)

[coob]

I think this a really nifty idea. Would love to know where the data comes from - are you aggregating it yourself?

Also, does it include a notification centre widget?

[rtrivedi]

The registered emergency rooms are catalogued on the medicare website (medicare.gov). The government has a list of all the emergency rooms in the USA. They also do a survey of each hospital periodically to keep there data up to date.

Unfortunately, these updates aren't in real time. I'm hoping I can provide people live data through my app through a feedback/reporting mechanism. It took a fair bit of time to extract all the data available and I had to do some aggregation myself.

The app doesn't yet include a notification centre widget but that's a great idea! I'm putting that on the list of potential feature adds :). Thank you!

[biot]

  > to keep there data up to date

Should be "their data". You should also fix this in the app description: should be "about what their options are", not "about what there options are".

[rtrivedi]

Thanks. Fixed in the app description.

[Startups411]

Where are you keeping the data that you've compiled? Are you using Parse?