title: Building an advanced wireless end-to-end emergency medical system.
abstract: Effective communication in healthcare is important and especially critical in emergency situations. In this paper we propose a new comprehensive emergency system which will facilitate the communication process in emergency cases from ambulance dispatch to the patient's arrival and handover in the hospital. The proposed system has been designed to facilitate and computerise all the processes involved in an accident from finding the nearest ambulance through to accessing a patient's online health record which can assist in pre-hospital treatments. The proposed system will also locate the nearest hospital specialising in the patient's condition and will communicate patient identification to the emergency department. The components of the proposed system and the technologies used in building this system are outlined in this paper as well as the challenges expected and proposed solutions to these challenges.
authors: College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin AbdulAziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia. saddikb@ksau-hs.edu.sa
authors: Basema
authors: B
authors: Saddik
authors: Samir
authors: S
authors: El-Masri
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D016730:Program Development; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000458:organization & administration*