Information Sharing for Medical Triage Tasking During Mass Casualty / Humanitarian Operations

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Information Sharing for Medical Triage Tasking During
Mass Casualty/Humanitarian Operations
Lillian A. Abuan


This thesis will focus on field testing and evaluating the capabilities of a
smartphone-based system and associated equipment for “First Responder
Networking.” Further, we will identify information sharing requirements for
supporting a medical triage tasking during mass casualty and humanitarian
operations. These requirements will be implemented, tested and evaluated
against the capabilities of the TwiddleNet system for passing/sharing of
patient information and records, in the form of text, photos and voice, rapidly
disseminated to those involved with the Mobile Emergency Command Post unit and
the Joint Operations Command Center. This will facilitate communication via
synchronized backhaul or satellite communiqué from the disaster site to other
medical facilities across a globally distributed network. For example, land
based military medical units, naval hospital ships, stateside medical centers
via tele-medicine, etc. The applicability of these efforts to the DoD will be
specifically tested via integrated mass casualty/triage scenarios and simulated
humanitarian operations.