Texas Children’s Hospital is now offering a smartphone app called Texas Children’s Pediatrics Parent Advice Center that helps parents determine the right place to go when their child is sick.
“It’s almost like, ‘OK, my kid has a sniffly nose. What do I need to do? Where do I need to go?’ and so it’s helping families know, ‘Do I need to go to my pediatrician or do I need to go to urgent care or do I need to go to the emergency center’ because we really want to help families,” Texas Children’s West Campus President Chanda Cashen Chacón said.
The app helps parents find treatment centers within the hospital’s system and allows access to MyChart, an app that acts as a patient portal for access to medical records.
Cashen Chacón said Texas Children’s is also working on concepts for other apps.
“We also have started piloting an app that families use when they come into our operating room here where it helps them see where their child is in the process,” she said.
