Inter-organizational emergency medical services: Case study of rural wireless deployment and management

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 7, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 155-173

  Horan, Thomas A ^a,b   Schooley, Benjamin ^b  

^a School of Information Science   (China)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; E 911 policy; Emergency medical services; Emergency response systems; Inter organizational systems; Mobile communications; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944463779     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-005-1476-1     Document Type: Review

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