Hi HN,

I wanted to share with you a project we've been working on intensely over the last couple weeks to respond to the COVID crisis in France: https://icubam.net.

It is a simple SMS-distributed form to collect ICU availability information directly from doctors as the standard reporting routes were too complex and becoming stale. We are currently collecting near real-time bed availability information from over 250 doctors, 115 ICUs and helping manage >2000 ICU beds.

Our experience is that this type of software can be a life-saver for quickly finding beds to transfer patients to when an ICU ward gets full. I'm advertising this here in case you think that your local healthcare system could take advantage of it, it is all open-source, has an easy back-office so that doctors can add each other (which helped us grow from 0 to more than 1/2 of France in two weeks), and can easily be deployed as a docker instance (still a bit patchy, the 'official' deployment is by hand, but the docker image seems to work well).

Please get in touch at contact@icubam.net if you have any questions.