Ashwood

For emergency departments

The sickest patient shouldn't wait behind a sore throat.

Ashwood replaces the first-come, first-served ER line with a live, severity-ranked queue built on the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale. Patients check in on their phone. Clinicians see who needs them most.

Built for HIPAA and PIPEDA compliance.

Kensington Health
Estimated wait24 minYou're checked in. A nurse will see you shortly.
Severity score32
In queue6 of 14
We'll text you when it's your turn.
Live queue
14 waiting
Margaret OseiChest pain
924 min
Daniel RoyShortness of breath
6818 min
Priya NatarajanAbdominal pain
551 h 12 ↑
Tom WhitfieldLaceration, hand
3126 min
3-6 min

average self check-in, phone or kiosk

31

CEDIS presenting-complaint pathways, expanding

every 60 s

the queue re-ranks by acuity and time waited

10 sec

doctor pre-read per patient

CTAS rules engine

Deterministic where it matters. Every score explainable.

Acuity is never left to a model's judgment. The intake conversation is distilled into structured clinical findings, and a rules engine implementing published CTAS guidance assigns the level - the same inputs always produce the same score, and every score carries the list of criteria that fired.

Then, every minute, waiting patients accrue bounded priority credit. Long waits climb - but never past a more acute band. The sickest stay first, and nobody is starved at the back of the line.

Read how scoring works →

Triage level

level = most acute CTAS rule that fires

Dynamic priority

priority = score + wait credit, capped one band up
CTAS 1-2

Critical · Emergent

CTAS 3

Urgent

CTAS 4-5

Semi · Non-urgent

How it works

From door to doctor, in three steps.
1
Patients check themselves in

Scan a health card, answer a short adaptive interview on a phone or lobby kiosk. Most patients finish in under six minutes, no clipboard.

2
The queue ranks itself

A deterministic CTAS rules engine assigns each patient a level and score, with the full audit trail of which criteria fired. The live queue re-ranks as patients arrive and waits accumulate. No one is starved.

3
Doctors walk in prepared

A generated clinical summary with symptoms, allergy flags, and the triage rationale. Readable in ten seconds before the consult.

See Ashwood in your emergency department.

A 30-minute walkthrough with your clinical leads. No commitment.

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