Disaster mobile health technology: Lessons from haiti

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 148-152

  Callaway, David W ^a,b   Peabody, Christopher R ^c   Hoffman, Ari ^d   Cote, Elizabeth ^e   Moulton, Seth ^f   Baez, Amado Alejandro ^g   Nathanson, Larry ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Centros de Diagnostico Medicina Avanzada y Telemedicina (CEDIMAT)   (Dominican Republic)

Author keywords

disaster; earthquake; electronic medical record; EMR; Haiti; health information technology; Health IT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HAITI; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RELIEF WORK; TELEMEDICINE;

CELLULAR PHONE; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HAITI; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RELIEF WORK; TELEMEDICINE; TRIAGE;

EID: 84862581986     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12000441     Document Type: Article

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