When disasters strike, local physicians are at the front lines of the response in their community. Curriculum guidelines have been developed to aid in preparation of family medicine residents to fulfill this role. Disaster responsiveness has recently been added to the Residency Review Committee Program Requirements in Community Medicine with little family medicine literature support. In this ar...

This paper summarizes our effort towards managing the multi-disciplinary disaster-related data from the Great East Japan Earthquake, which happened on March 11, 2011 off the coast of northeast Japan. This earthquake caused the largest tsunami in the recorded history of Japan, killed many people along the coast, and caused a nuclear disaster in Fukushima, which continues to affect a large area o...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this qualitative, retrospective review is to identify and analyze the occurrence of recurrent problems in 20 processes that cover all relevant aspects of disaster health during the response phase. Consequently, an attempt is made to determine if there are generic themes of coherences in these problems. METHODS Eight after-action reports of five consecutive disasters in t...

2 Outline ●Background ●System requirement ● Wide area Disaster information Network ●Safety information system ●Prototyping and evaluation ●Result and concluding remarks 2 3 Background Occurrence of large scale of disasters, such as earth quick, volcanic eruption, seismic sea wave, in addition to annual disaster, such as typhoon, rain flooding and snow-sliding in Japan. Necessity of more reliabl...

Telemedicine has been defined as the use of telecommunication technologies like e-mail, wireless tools, and other applications to diagnose and treat a patient’s clinical health status. Different types of services can be provided by telemedicine, such as home telehealth and referral to medical centers. There have been several examples of large-scale disasters over the last few decades with vario...

Background and Objective: It is necessary to prepare nurses for their important and accountable roles in disaster response teams. Given the lack of in-service training courses, nurses’ knowledge and skills in responding to disasters are lower than the desired level. This status can lead to nurses’ poor performance in caring for victims of disasters. This study aims to determine the effects of e...

Disaster response and recovery efforts require timely interaction and coordination of public emergency services in order to save lives and property. Today, IT is used in this field only to a limited extent, but there is a tremendous potential for increasing efficiency and effectiveness in coping with a disaster. In this paper we sketch requirements and innovative technology for an integrated di...

Abstract The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR) serves as the international standard disaster risk reduction. SFDRR places a new emphasis on reduction during post-disaster recovery phase. Additionally, encourages tangible and verifiable outcomes catastrophe loss reduction, such indicators tracking progress toward seven global targets. purpose of this article is to ma...

Abstract We describe in this article a framework for disaster response process management. This framework can be used to develop information systems supporting those processes. It is grounded in several research approaches: literature research, case studies, end user interviews and workshops. We compare disaster response process management with business process management and argue why it is su...

For recent years, disaster response management is considered as a promising field for applying methods and tools from business process management. Especially the development of adaptive workflow management systems (WfMS) brought a process-oriented management of highly dynamic disaster response processes (DRP) within tangible reach. However, time criticality, unpredictability or complex and chan...