Ertexting out of Miami, Florida is a new company that’s offering a mobile phone service to provide patients wait times at their local emergency rooms. The idea is very simple: in an emergency, patients send a text message with their zip code to 4ER411 (437411), and the system replies with a text message containing how many minutes you should expect to wait in nearby ERs. The service wants ER staff to provide live updates on the status of their departments in hopes that this will reduce the load by having patients triage themselves.
Link: ERtexting…