iTriage Helps 2010 Winter Olympic Spectators Find Healthcare in Canada

LAKEWOOD, Colo., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympic athletes, families, friends and spectators attending the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics received a boost of support for their healthcare today from Healthagen® -- developer of iTriage®.

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iTriage has added medical facility information and mapping of healthcare facilities around Vancouver, giving spectators in crowded Olympic Villages assurance that in the event of a broken bone, injury, or sickness, they can quickly find help. By downloading the free application for the iPhone®, iPod Touch® or Android™, or pointing their BlackBerry®, Samsung Omnia II® (Official Olympic phone) or other web enabled devices to www.itriagehealth.com, Olympic visitors from all over the globe will be able to find healthcare using the GPS capabilities of iTriage.

Healthcare is readily available for competitors defying gravity and competing in these exciting Olympic events. However, during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, hospitals and healthcare providers anticipated a flood of over 10,000 new patients due to spectators visiting the area. This year's Olympics will have similar needs. Traffic congestion, crowds, venues all around the area, evening events, a foreign healthcare system, and maximizing enjoyment during a vacation all make finding help quickly a priority. iTriage can serve spectators as an adjunct to the Vancouver Olympics 8-1-1 help line.

"iTriage wanted to support the athletes and their families, and spectators during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Now that we've added all the healthcare providers around the Olympic venues in British Columbia, athlete families and friends can quickly navigate the Canadian healthcare landscape," said Peter Hudson, M.D. CEO, Healthagen. "iTriage puts actionable healthcare information into the hands of Olympic goers, so that when illness or an accident occurs all the information needed to search symptoms or find a facility is in their hands."

About Healthagen

Healthagen is a developer of healthcare information software that empowers patients to make better decisions. Two practicing emergency medicine physicians developed iTriage after seeing a need to put more healthcare information into their patient's hands. Currently iTriage is the only symptom-to-provider application available to smartphone users. The application performs as a 24/7 acute care decision tool to help end users find healthcare anywhere in the United States or British Columbia. The healthcare search engine integrated into iTriage surpasses any conventional search engine for point of care healthcare decision-making.

iTriage improves the effectiveness of the doctor/patient relationship because the healthcare consumer can gain more information about their symptoms, narrow down the possible causes, then make the most appropriate decision on a healthcare provider to treat the disease. Drs. Peter Hudson and Wayne Guerra co-founded Healthagen – a privately held company headquartered in Lakewood, CO.

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SOURCE Healthagen