Alberta Health Services 12+

New information after doctors visits to populate the app. A record of referrals, the referred doctors name and address, name of primary contact, actual times you are likely to find a human on the phone.

Results of specialists tests. A record of blood, blood pressure tests all in one place.

A page that shows kids tests, where they fit in trajectories for heights, weight, head circumference, etc.

A record of birth/preemie occurrences, doctors involved, where medical records, any significant cts, mri's, are kept.

Records of immunizations. Reminders when it's time to go back

A reference page for parents with questions. Have detailed instructions about daycare illnesses. When they need to see a doc vs riding it out.

Perhaps a specialty page on individual apps with advice specific to your families cluster of needs, ie, sensory processing disorder, autism, Fasd, heart diesease, food allergies, etc.

A trajectory of care, next steps. Sort like you see in critical care rooms. If client has (a) then follow this line. If client has (b) follow this line. Then play out scenario to give us an idea of next steps and to enhance our conversations with physicians.

Sort this info by family member.

A record of clinic/emerge visits for kids

Meds everyone is on

Health conditions they deal with so you don't have to repeatedly say the same thing in front of your frightened kids.

I envision the app adding a new page as you take a new member to physician. Name, ahs #, current ht/wt, etc.
Then the page populates in reverse order as all info is pulled from data bases and applied to the families app.

Initially this would be a huge job. Soon though. It would only be done as new babies are born and new immigrants are brought into the health system.

In the meantime, families feel informed, empowered, cared for and a huge amount of paper work is eliminated.

Every patient then has the ability to present a coherent history to any physician they encounter, even if emergency situation far from home or loved ones.

The security personnel will need to figure out privacy concerns, obviously. But to undertake this project and not fulfill its abilities is a waste of all of our time and money.

Good luck. Thanks for letting me have my say.

Seriously, step this up.

My husband has a device in his chest that pumps in the place of his heart because his natural heart cannot pump properly. When there is an issue with his pump, it is a true emergency, since without immediate help he would die. The emergency system always works for us and he does not have to wait for hours to be seen.
What I am fed up with is the number of folks I see in emergency waiting rooms who are non emergent and should be going into a walk-in or urgent care clinic There was a couple recently whose child had cut his finger. The mother showed me the cut and I have to say I was appalled that she would take him to emergency when a clinic could easily have taken care of it. I asked her if she had considered a walk-in clinic and she told me the hospital was closer, all the while she and her husband complained about the wait!