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Comment by selcuka | Hacker News Reader

> There's a need for an app to let patients track the ambulance

I don't want to blame anyone, but I'm pretty sure that kind of visibility is not desired.

Not desired by whom? I think transparency is desired by citizens/customers. Do you think there are (good) reasons why obscurity is preferred?

Personally I see plenty of problems with a real-time public broadcast of all the addresses a medical event has occurred at, the patients' location in transit, and the hospitals that received those patients.

"Ambulance chaser" is a rather derogatory phrase for a reason.

I'm certainly not suggesting that. Read on.

An emergency dispatcher could send a Text message back with a link to a private, case-limited, web page with an ETA + a map + the ambulance location in real time.

See? no "real-time public broadcast of all the addresses a medical event has occurred at".

there's no need to post 7 digits accurate GPS coordinates, the important thing is to have an understanding of how many are how far from where they are going to, ETA, what's the capacity (free units ready or cars yes crew not, or vice versa)

FWIW: In Sweden, there's been a bunch of cases of emergency personnel being attacked when responding to incidents

I understand, I know it's a problem in France too, even in hospitals. Or Firefighters being called only to be attacked...

However that exists already, without a way to track the rescue team sent to you...

if someone wants to attack them they can call them. so what's the point of not providing this very useful information to the public?

This would be a great way for thieves to determine which house is likely to have just had everyone leave it in a hurry and not likely to return any time soon.

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