Mobile technologies in the management of disasters: the results of a telemedicine solution.
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2002-02-04
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Nowadays a great number of applications are used to compile and transmit casualties and disasters information but there are many troubles associated with the technology as can be the communications reliability and the size and weight of the devices medical staff has to carry with Telecommunication infrastructures support information movement among geographically dispersed locations Recently a large family of little devices has appeared in the buyer s market They are called Personal Digital Assistants and because of their physic and technical features they are very useful in the emergency field As for the communications reliability many technologies have been developed in the last years but it is necessary to find a solution that can be used in whatever situation independently of the emergency circumstances Facing this reality the Spanish government funded REMAF an ATYCA Initiative of Support for the Technology Security and Quality in the Industry project REMAF joined research groups UPM phone operators Fundaci n Airtel M vil and end users SAMUR to build a disaster data management system conceived to use modern telemedicine systems to optimize the management in these situations taking the advantage of the above mentioned mobile communication tools and networks