Disaster e-Health: A New Paradigm for Collaborative Healthcare in Disasters
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Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, the University of Agder
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Disaster management and disaster medicine are well-established disciplines for responding to disasters and providing care for individuals whose health and wellbeing has been affected. However, these disciplines have different origins, development, and priorities so that communication and coordination across them during disasters is often lacking, leading to delayed, sub-standard, inappropriate or even unavailable care. Moreover, neither discipline exploits the new range of ehealth technologies such as the electronic health record or telehealth and mobile health that are revolutionizing non-disaster healthcare. We need a new paradigm that applies information and e-health technologies to improve disaster health planning and response. This paper describes the initial stages of a project to develop such a paradigm by scoping and developing the area of disaster e-health.Description
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ISCRAM 2015 held at Norway, - Kristiansand, May 24-27, 2015-05-24 to 2015-09-27, published in: Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference
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