title: Information infrastructure for emergency medical services.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Program, Dept. of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA.
authors.forename: Helmuth
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Orthner
authors.forename: Ninad
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Terndrup
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Acker
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grimes
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gemmill
authors.forename: Marcie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Battles
mesh_terms: D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*