Health IT entrepreneurs develop mobile app to reduce ambulance idle time [Video]

Jason Ervin, the co-founder of Stat, has set an ambitious goal for his company’s mobile health app: cutting the amount of time it takes for ambulances to make a pick up. It comes from three emergency situations, including one involving with his grandfather, where there was a delayed response and concluded there’s a more efficient way.

At DreamIt Ventures’ DreamIt Health demo day in Philadelphia, Ervin noted in his pitch that ambulances sit idle 35 percent to 65 percent of the time. In its conversations with Penn Medicine, it discovered that after 6pm there’s a lag time that can make it more difficult to find ambulances.

“What happens today is an ambulance may take someone to dialysis and if it doesn’t have another call, it will sit and wait until the patient’s appointment has ended,” said Ervin, a co-founder. “We’re trying to fill the void by sending these ambulances calls.”

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