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If you're sick and need to know what is wrong with you, believe it or not there's an app for that. The app is called iTriage and can help save a person's life in some cases.
Melissa Ketterer says an app on her iPhone helped save her husbands life. One day in April, Bob Ketterer with no sense of alarm said his right arm felt numb. Melissa typed Bob's symptoms into a app called iTriage.
"It pulled up numbness and the top of the list is stroke," said Ketterer.
The app not only warned of a possible stroke, it advised going straight to the emergency room and gave directions to the closest one. Bob was having a stroke and doctors stopped it before he suffered major brain damage.
iTriage was the brain child of private app developers, but the app's inner working rely heavily on data from the US Government. The app has a list of doctors and clinics complied by Medicare and other federal records and directions to the hospital came from the taxpayer launched GPS satellite system."You don't need a masters degree to be able to use an app," said Ketterer.
To Melissa Ketterer the benefits of the handheld information industry came clear on an April afternoon. With her husband's life in the balance--she had an app for that.
To download the app, go to the app store or market and type in iTriage. It's a free app and will only take a few seconds to download.
You must have an iPhone iOS 4.3 or higher to download the app. Once the app is downloaded it will ask for your location before it boots up. The reason it does this is so it can track your location so it is able to provide you with the most accurate distance between you and a medical clinic.
