Information Management and Information Technology in an MCI or Disaster
Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an emergency response system of every community. In fact, emergency response is not merely an act of preparing some amount of materials and assembling personnel. Responders often delve into unfamiliar tasks, which require an utmost urgency. Field medical teams, …show more content…
The provision of timely and reliable information is an essential prerequisite for appropriate emergency medical response. That is why the development of sound and efficient emergency procedures of information management is absolutely essential in order to succeed in the primary objective of the medical support, i.e. preserve the health and life, as well as prevent severe disability of as many harmed individuals as …show more content…
However, such linkages are marked with serious limitations. The landlines are particularly vulnerable because of their possible damage during a disaster. At the same time, the airwaves can fail to function due to icreased congestion. During the bomb attack of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the telephone lines were seriously overloaded, resulting in the hampered communication at the incident scene. Emergency radio systems failed in the majority of hospitals, causing chaos and confusion among the city residents and emergency respondents (Martinez, Gonzalez,
Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an emergency response system of every community. In fact, emergency response is not merely an act of preparing some amount of materials and assembling personnel. Responders often delve into unfamiliar tasks, which require an utmost urgency. Field medical teams, …show more content…
The provision of timely and reliable information is an essential prerequisite for appropriate emergency medical response. That is why the development of sound and efficient emergency procedures of information management is absolutely essential in order to succeed in the primary objective of the medical support, i.e. preserve the health and life, as well as prevent severe disability of as many harmed individuals as …show more content…
However, such linkages are marked with serious limitations. The landlines are particularly vulnerable because of their possible damage during a disaster. At the same time, the airwaves can fail to function due to icreased congestion. During the bomb attack of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the telephone lines were seriously overloaded, resulting in the hampered communication at the incident scene. Emergency radio systems failed in the majority of hospitals, causing chaos and confusion among the city residents and emergency respondents (Martinez, Gonzalez,