International Business Machines Corporation
System, method and computer program product for dispatching of medical emergencies and wait time control

Abstract:

A wait time control method, system, and computer program product, includes extracting wait times for treatment at emergency facilities and routing times to the emergency facilities based on an emergency request and assigning a patient to an emergency facility by calculating a minimal treatment time for the patient comprising a minimum combined time of a wait time at the emergency facility and a routing time to the emergency facility from a location of the emergency request.