Digital emergency routing: analysis of feasibility, utilization, and equity implications
Osnat Bashkin, Tamar Shalom, Ilan Yehoshua, Limor Adler · 2026
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Description
Osnat Bashkin and co-authors study a phone app that routes urgent care away from hospital halls in a 2026 paper. One Israeli health service built the app so patients can ask for fast care in the community instead. The team read near ninety-five thousand requests from 2020 to 2023.
Just over half the requests won approval for a fast clinic slot. Use grew more than threefold across the four years. Older patients and those with long-term ills won approval more often, and the kind of emergency swayed the odds a lot. Gaps by place, group, and means showed up too. Approved requests led to less care use in the next week.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Osnat Bashkin, Tamar Shalom, Ilan Yehoshua, Limor Adler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |