Title :
A System Architecture for a Telematic Support System in Emergency Medical Services
Author :
Protogerakis, Michael ; Gramatke, Arno ; Henning, Klaus
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Manage. in Mech. Eng., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany
Abstract :
The system presented in this paper is part of the research project Med-on-@ix for the safe application of information technology in preclinical emergency health care. It aims at supporting emergency medical services (EMS) staff at the incident location from a remote Competence Centre (CompC). The increasing number of missions in the German EMS and the shortage of specialized emergency physicians leads to huge problems for the public health care system. Higher cost efficiency and treatment quality shall be achieved by the transfer of mission tactical data and medically relevant data such as vital signs, auscultation and video material from the emergency site to the CompC by the telematic support system. In this paper cases in which such a telematic support system can be used will be outlined. The crucial requirements and a possible hardware and software system architecture of a telematic support system for EMS will be summarised.
Keywords :
bioinformatics; emergency services; health care; information technology; telemedicine; Competence Centre; Med-on-@ix; emergency medical services; information technology; preclinical emergency health care; remote CompC; system architecture; telematic support system; Computer architecture; Costs; Health information management; Hospitals; Knowledge management; Medical services; Medical treatment; Public healthcare; Telematics; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2901-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2902-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162255
