App of the Week — iTriage

When you deal with a health issue, you generally need to know about your condition through self diagnosis. Understanding your symptoms can potentially save your life. In the past, many people learned about vital info from healthcare information Web sites such as WebMD, but with this app iTriage, you can do a quick check on yourself even when you are on the go.

Here are some important features:

• Look up your symptoms
• Learn about possible causes of your symptoms
• Based on the causes, guide you to the most appropriate treatment path
• Locate the closest appropriate healthcare providers to your current location or any location you choose

The app also provides you information about next steps through interactive features:

• Information on thousands of symptoms, diseases and medical procedures
• A nationwide directory of Hospital ERs, Physicians, Urgent Cares, Retail Clinics, Pharmacies, and Outpatient Clinics
• Turn-by-turn directions to all provider facilities using either GPS, IP address, or any specified location
• Information on nurse advice lines
• Hospital Emergency Room wait times and a pre-registration feature in select parts of the country

With this app working with many hospitals in the nation, it has a lot of potential and we can all learn a thing or two from it, and use it in our next brainstorming session.