Waiting-Room Anxiety Eased With Apps That Give Updates

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Apps help parents keep tabs on kids during surgery; “If I can track my food on Uber Eats or my package on Amazon, why can’t I track my family member’s condition in the O.R.?”

It’s a situation many parents know all too well: Whether they have an infant in the NICU or a child in surgery, the hours spent in that waiting room are completely nerve-racking. There are only so many crumpled magazines you can peruse and so many Instagram posts you can scroll through before you just want to yell, “What’s going on in there?”

Startups and large health-care companies alike are developing tools aimed to give worried parents frequent updates on what’s happening to their children during surgeries or hospital...

 

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Through littlebit that I can see with my innernet, it looks good. What is the name of the app and is it on google store?

Finally seeing technology to help hospitals do what they should have been doing for years! — better communication to families — hopefully more hospitals can pick up on these communication technologies and do what they should have been doing.

Hell no! I don’t want to watch my kid’s surgery. I’d rather just get the verbal update and let me know when it’s done. I’m not a medical person-I couldn’t take the blood. 👎

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