Alberta Health Services App Reviews

Just like their website, this APP stinks! Someone is getting paid a lot of our money to make these sites useless. Shame on you AHS!!!

Great to see the Alberta health care continues to squander our money once again. Wait times are non existent anymore? Or maybe its to cover up the fact that the wait times in Alberta are at a critical high and best not to leave any evidence of such! Canadian government fails at everything!!!!

As a migraine sufferer I was excited to use the app for its emergency wait times. As someone involved in the healthcare industry, I am well aware that wait times cannot always be reflective of the exact time you will be waiting. However, on more than 3 occasions, the app has been well off in its indication of Hospital Emergency wait times, even decreasing the time shown while I and other patients continued to wait in the waiting room! I appreciate the effort from Alberta Health to include this feature, but it is simply inappropriate to continue to provide the service with its current level of inaccuracy. Use with caution.

This app is pretty good but initially it doesnt show any wait times unless you tap the little map in the lower left corner. It will then ask you to select Calgary or Edmonton region, then the wait times appear. It links to Google maps which is handy if youre not sure where the hospital is located. Overall, the app can be handy, especially if youre not in your home city. Imprecise wait times are not because of the app, its because triage at hospitals is a moving target, regardless of which hospital. Thats life.

Not perfect, but what estimation is? Gives you a good idea of how long the wait is.

New information after doctors visits to populate the app. A record of referrals, the referred doctors name and address, name of primary contact, actual times you are likely to find a human on the phone. Results of specialists tests. A record of blood, blood pressure tests all in one place. A page that shows kids tests, where they fit in trajectories for heights, weight, head circumference, etc. A record of birth/preemie occurrences, doctors involved, where medical records, any significant cts, mris, are kept. Records of immunizations. Reminders when its time to go back A reference page for parents with questions. Have detailed instructions about daycare illnesses. When they need to see a doc vs riding it out. Perhaps a specialty page on individual apps with advice specific to your families cluster of needs, ie, sensory processing disorder, autism, Fasd, heart diesease, food allergies, etc. A trajectory of care, next steps. Sort like you see in critical care rooms. If client has (a) then follow this line. If client has (b) follow this line. Then play out scenario to give us an idea of next steps and to enhance our conversations with physicians. Sort this info by family member. A record of clinic/emerge visits for kids Meds everyone is on Health conditions they deal with so you dont have to repeatedly say the same thing in front of your frightened kids. I envision the app adding a new page as you take a new member to physician. Name, ahs #, current ht/wt, etc. Then the page populates in reverse order as all info is pulled from data bases and applied to the families app. Initially this would be a huge job. Soon though. It would only be done as new babies are born and new immigrants are brought into the health system. In the meantime, families feel informed, empowered, cared for and a huge amount of paper work is eliminated. Every patient then has the ability to present a coherent history to any physician they encounter, even if emergency situation far from home or loved ones. The security personnel will need to figure out privacy concerns, obviously. But to undertake this project and not fulfill its abilities is a waste of all of our time and money. Good luck. Thanks for letting me have my say.

When are we going to get an electronic health record? I would really like to see results of blood tests, immunization records, prescribed drugs, etc. Please bring Albertans into the modern age and give us access to our health records so we have the tools to better manage our own health.

Having access to estimated emergency centre wait times is fantastic.