Text Your Way To a Short Emergency Room Wait

Here's one reason to continue paying $10 a month for your texting plan. ER Texting, Inc has a service that sends you a text message with a list of your local hospitals and their emergency room wait times.

The service was originally a marketing gimmick used to drive people to a specific ER, but surprise, surprise, hospital staff discovered it actually helped them manage incoming patient traffic. [Business Wire via Textually.org]