Citation

Husain A, Sharp JH, Gao T, White DM. AMIA Annu. Symp. Proc. 2006; 2006: 962.

Affiliation

University of Maryland Department of Health and Human Service, Columbia, MD 21046, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Medical Informatics Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17238581

PMCID

PMC1839463

Abstract

This poster describes research on the workflow of paramedics during disaster response. After thorough solicitation of feedback from the user community, we translated the user workflows into data models that could be encompassed into information technologies for disaster response. Three data models described in this paper are: tasks to be completed by responders, resources used for each task, and communications link between responders. This work has been employed in Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network (AID-N) architecture. Mass casualty incidents, where limited numbers of care providers and resources must respond to a large number of patients, present numerous challenges for the emergency response community. Many of these challenges can be addressed most efficiently through the development and integration of modern technology. The AID-N project aims to identify and address many of the needs of emergency response teams specifically in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Through this process we have developed close relationships with the emergency response community. By conducting a series of interviews and surveys with numerous EMS personnel2, we identified operations commonly employed by EMS jurisdictions in responding to disasters. We found that these tasks were readily broken down into three subcategories: resource usage, task flow, and communications flow.

Language: en