Application of information technology within a field hospital deployment following the January 2010 Haiti earthquake disaster

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 626-630

  Levy, Gad ^a,b   Blumberg, Nehemia ^a,b   Kreiss, Yitshak ^a   Ash, Nachman ^a   Merin, Ofer ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HAITI; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ONLINE ANALYSIS;

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HAITI; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650488856     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.004937     Document Type: Article

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