ERgo: Discrete-Event Simulation for Emergency Rooms
CWSF · 2026 Digital Technology Silver Medal
Overview
Canadian emergency rooms face a systemic crisis, with patients routinely waiting over 20 hours on stretchers. ERgo is a discrete-event simulation engine designed to tackle the chronic overcrowding and excessive wait times in Canadian hospitals using open-sourced hourly ER datasets from the Quebec government and the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) data. By modeling ER patient flow at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, it tests five post-triage prioritization policies to identify ways to optimize patient flow using existing resources. ERgo also features an interactive dashboard that dynamically recommends the best policy for a given hospital based on real-time data.
Awards (3)
- Special Award
- Silver Medal
- Selected for CWSF 2026
Competition history
- CWSF 2026
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