A campus-wide mobile EMS information management system

Author

Heureux, Brian R L ; McHugh, Michael J. ; Privett, Benjamin D. ; Kinicki, Robert ; Agu, Emmanuel

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 March 2006

Lastpage

526

Abstract

Efficient information management is crucial for the timely administration of emergency medical services (EMS). In this paper, we describe a project to design and implement an automatic incident reporting and patient information management system for use by the EMS department at WPI, a small technological university. The EMS personnel are equipped with PDAs to access the system over a wireless LAN. Challenges faced in designing the system included compliance with new medical information regulations, provision of adequate security, interaction on small PDA screens, thin client software design, wireless networking and usability issues

Keywords

educational institutions; emergency services; medical information systems; mobile computing; notebook computers; wireless LAN; adequate security; automatic incident reporting; emergency medical services; medical information regulations; mobile EMS information management system; mobile computing; patient information management system; thin client software design; ubiquitous healthcare; wireless LAN; wireless networking; Communication system security; Health information management; Information management; Information security; Medical services; Personal digital assistants; Personnel; Software design; Usability; Wireless LAN; information management.; mobile computing; ubiquitous healthcare; wireless networking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. PerCom Workshops 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2520-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.2

Filename

1599039