Information infrastructure for emergency medical services.
The pre-hospital emergency medical and public safety information environment is nearing a threshold of significant change. The change is driven in part by several emerging technologies such as secure, high-speed wireless communication in the local and wide area networks (wLAN, 3G), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and powerful handheld computing and communication services, that are of sufficient utility to be more widely adopted. We propose a conceptual model to enable improved clinical decision making in the pre-hospital environment using these change agents.
Orthner
Helmuth
H
Health Informatics Program, Dept. of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA.
Mishra
Ninad
N
Terndrup
Thomas
T
Acker
Joseph
J
Grimes
Gary
G
Gemmill
Jill
J
Battles
Marcie
M
D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*