Information needs and decision support in health and medical disasters

Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 778-786

  Hoare, Geoffrey ^a   Nield, Jeffrey ^b   Belcuore, Tom ^a   Rich, Tom ^c  

^a FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b ESS Group   (United States)

^c ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Disaster management; Health and medical; Incident command system; Information overload

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; HEALTH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKERS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEMS; INCIDENT MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84879197156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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