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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 9:97-104 (2002)
© 2002 American Medical Informatics Association

Brief Review

The Informatics Response in Disaster, Terrorism, and War

Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD, Michael M. Wagner, MD, PhD, Colin F. Mackenzie, MD and Brig. Gen. Klaus O. Schafer, MD, MPH

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and Healthvision, Waltham, Massachusetts (JMT); University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (MW); University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (CM); Office of the Surgeon General, Medical Readiness, Science and Technology, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC (KOS).

Correspondence and reprint requests: Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115; e-mail: <jteich{at}harvard.edu>.

The United States currently faces several new, concurrent large-scale health crises as a result of terrorist activity. In particular, three major health issues have risen sharply in urgency and public consciousness—bioterrorism, the threat of widespread delivery of agents of illness; mass disasters, local events that produce large numbers of casualties and overwhelm the usual capacity of health care delivery systems; and the delivery of optimal health care to remote military field sites. Each of these health issues carries large demands for the collection, analysis, coordination, and distribution of health information. The authors present overviews of these areas and discuss ongoing work efforts of experts in each.






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