title: Paramedic operations specification as a launching point for mass casualty incident-targeted engineering design.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland Department of Emergency Health Services, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Azmat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Husain
authors.forename: Jonathan H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Sharp
authors.forename: Tia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning; D004190:Disasters; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004634:Emergency Medical Technicians; D006801:Humans; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis