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Abstract
The Medical Emergency Tracker is an advanced geospatial real-time decision support system designed to increase situational awareness, decrease response time, and provide rapid access to critical healthcare infrastructure during acute, life-threatening medical emergencies. The platform is designed to operate under the most time-sensitive conditions, incorporating high-precision GPS localisation, state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), and real-time telemetry data from emergency medical service (EMS) fleets, to offer a comprehensive, context-aware solution for prehospital emergency care coordination. The system, essentially, automatically locates the user’s geographic position and algorithmically locates the closest and most appropriate healthcare assets, such as tertiary care hospitals, trauma centers, urgent care facilities, community pharmacies and mobile medical units. Traditional static locator services are not the same. The Medical Emergency Tracker factors in a number of dynamic parameters such as proximity, real-time traffic data, healthcare facility capacity, resource availability, and operational status to deliver accurate, actionable recommendations. The platform's built-in EMS telemetry interface enables real-time display of ambulance availability, location, and operational status, as well as calculation of the estimated time of arrival (ETA) and continuous optimisation of routing decisions based on current traffic conditions and regional resource limitations.