Development of Integrated AI-Based Application (App) to Optimize Emergency Department Workflow in Pakistan.

Abstract

Pakistan healthcare exhibits high burden owing to increase workload, un-optimized resource use and burnt-out professionals.¹ Emergency departments of any hospital remains the most bustling area facing overcrowdings, long wait time, unequal prioritization of patients because of manual triaging. According to Emergency services department Government of the Punjab, Pakistan average medical emergencies per day accounts for 4597 emergencies.² Triage systems and App for instance (Ambulance Dispatch System) in USA, UK³ have shown promising results, quicker assessment and more reliable allocation of patients to respective sub-specialty in a timely fashion. Everyday many patients die while reaching hospital, waiting for the help or ambulance to arrive and hospital gets overburden by manual triaging.