How it works
Rewiring patient flow across Ontario
Traditional fixes focus on one hospital at a time. FLOW looks across the city — pairing live wait data with driving time so patients pick the fastest total path to care.
Your location
Share where you are — or pick a city — and FLOW estimates drive times to emergency departments, urgent care, and walk-in clinics.
Live wait feeds
Hospital wait times, queue length, and alternate care options update continuously — searchable and filterable in one board.
Shortest total time
Hospitals are ranked by cumulative drive and wait. Open any row for deeper stats and directions when you're ready to go.
The problem
Ontario's ERs are past capacity
Wait times keep climbing under rising visits, an aging population, and hospitals stretched thin. Ontario's population is projected to grow about 30% over the next 25 years — without a new way to distribute demand, the bottleneck only gets worse.
Why it matters
Put power in the patient's hands
Non-emergency cases are roughly 23% of ER visits. By surfacing urgent care and walk-in waits alongside ERs — and partnering with Health Connect Ontario — FLOW guides people to the right level of care and eases avoidable crowding.
Impact
Feasible today. Transformative at scale.
Many hospitals already publish waits. Drive times are available via mapping APIs. FLOW centralizes both — and can help sites without tracking adopt it. If just 10% of Ontarians used FLOW, modeled outcomes include cutting average physician wait by about 50% and inpatient bed wait by about 31%.
146K+
ER wait records scraped each month to train forecasts
~50%
Modeled drop in physician wait at 10% adoption
~31%
Modeled drop in inpatient bed wait at 10% adoption
Get involved
Partner with FLOW
We're looking for collaboration — especially if you have access to hospital data, or know someone who does. Built by Ontarians who've waited in these rooms ourselves.