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This week’s Tuesday Push is for Decisions for Heroes.

This is how Robin Blandford describes Decisions for Heroes on their website:

Decisions For Heroes is a web application that saves lives. We do this by helping rescue teams record and analyse their rescue operations. Teams like Mountain Rescue, Coast Guard, Lifeboats, and other Search & Rescue units use our service to document their incidents, techniques, casualty care, and training exercises, building up a profile of each of their rescuers and the geographical area they respond to.

Decisions for Heroes was launched on Tuesday this week in Dublin Ireland.

I’ve met Robin a few times and he’s a great example to any budding entrepreneur in Ireland. First off, he’s done this the hard way. He’s the sole founder of Decisions for Heroes. He’s picked a very specific niche in an area he’s very passionate about. He makes the most of opportunities when they appear. Frankly, I don’t know how he does it all.

The main site design is different, with an eye catching video on the home page. Go on, give it a visit. If you’re an entrepreneur, follow Robin’s blog. If you’re a rescue worker, buy decisions for heroes.

RevaHealth is this week’s Tuesday Push.

RevaHealth helps you find healthcare anywhere in the world. They also have review ratings for the different healthcare providers.

Caelen King, RevaHealth’s CEO is a great help to other startups in Ireland. Caelen spoke at the recent Bizcamp unconferences in Dublin and Limerick. He’s been very generous with advice about his experiences successfully raising money over a million euros for RevaHealth. You can even catch him on YouTube talking at the Limerick Bizcamp. Their blog has loads of advice for web startups ranging from SEO tips to A/B testing.

Sometimes when I look at review sites on the web, I wonder if the good reviews were written by the company CEO’s brother and if the bad reviews were written by their competitor. I kind of expect this when I’m looking for hotels but when it comes to healthcare I’d expect people would want more reassurance that the reviews are valid. In the fine print of the review guidelines, RevaHealth do warn reviewers of the measures they take to find false reviews. This is kind of buried in the details though, and I think customers would be reassured if they knew this up front.

I did a quick test and checked for entries for three doctors I know in Limerick. All three were in RevaHealth but as you’d expect there was no details beyond phone numbers and addresses. In one case the Google map was pointing to the wrong place although I’d expect this is more a problem with Google interpreting the address incorrectly.

For other more specialist treatments RevaHealth has an impressive array of information on healthcare providers including patient reviews and prices. So if you’re looking for a dentist in Romania or a GP in Limerick, RevaHealth is a great place to start.

Update: RevaHealth.com is now WhatClinic.com, and has expanded to cover healthcare providers in the UK.