José J. González, José H. Canós-Cerdá, Tony Norris, & Reem Abbas. (2018). Towards Disaster e-Health Support Systems. In Kees Boersma, & Brian Tomaszeski (Eds.), ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings – 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 438–443). Rochester, NY (USA): Rochester Institute of Technology.
Abstract: Disaster management and the health sector ought to be natural allies, but their different origins, culture, and priorities of the various agencies tasked with disaster response mean that communication and coordination between them is often lacking, leading to delayed, sub-standard, or inappropriate care for disaster victims. The potential of the new e-health technologies, such as the electronic health record, telehealth and mobile health, that are revolutionizing non-disaster healthcare, is also not being realised. These circumstances have led to an international project to develop a disaster e-health framework for the objectives of intelligent adaption to changing scenarios, presentation and management of information, and communication and collaboration. In this paper, we describe characteristics of disaster e-health support systems to achieve such set of objectives.
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Reem Abbas, & Tony Norris. (2018). Inter-Agency Communication and Information Exchange in Disaster Healthcare. In Kees Boersma, & Brian Tomaszeski (Eds.), ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings – 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 886–892). Rochester, NY (USA): Rochester Institute of Technology.
Abstract: In a disaster, the main agencies of healthcare and relief are usually health and disaster management organisations. Although these two disciplines share the same vision of care provision to disaster victims, experience shows that poor communication between them can negatively impact the collaboration needed to ensure the quality and coordinated delivery of effective healthcare. This paper presents the current findings of an on-going investigation to determine and reduce the barriers to smooth and effective communication and information exchange.
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Tony C. Norris, Santiago Martinez, Leire Labaka, S. Madanian, José J. Gonzalez, & Dave Parry. (2015). Disaster E-Health: A New Paradigm for Collaborative Healthcare in Disasters. In L. Palen, M. Buscher, T. Comes, & A. Hughes (Eds.), ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Kristiansand, Norway: University of Agder (UiA).
Abstract: Disaster management and disaster medicine are well-established disciplines for responding to disasters and providing care for individuals whose health and well-being 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. Moreover, neither discipline exploits the new range of e-health 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.
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