Healthcare in Disasters and the Role of RFID.
Disasters either natural or man-made are inevitable, and therefore disaster management has always been an important function of government. Since during a disaster healthcare is often adversely affected, a lot of effort has been made in terms of researching effective responses and ways of improving the quality of delivered care to direct casualties and the rest of the community. In this regard, information technology plays an important role to help healthcare systems achieve this goal. One of these technologies that has become popular recently is Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID). This paper explores the relationship between emergency management and disaster healthcare and examines the role of RFID. It is suggested that RFID will become an integral part of disaster healthcare and a means of improving response performance.
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Samaneh
S
Madanian
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
David
D
Parry
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Tony
T
Norris
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004190:Disasters; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009520:New Zealand; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device; D014218:Triage / Q000458:organization & administration*