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First published November 26, 2002 as JAMIA PrePrint; doi:10.1197/jamia.M1205
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2003;10(2):166-176
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Submitted on August 15, 2002
Accepted on October 26, 2002

Telehealth Technologies and Applications for Terrorism Response - A Report of the 2002 Coastal North Carolina Domestic Preparedness Training Exercise

Scott C. Simmons MS1*, Timothy A. Murphy1, Adrian Blanarovich ME1, Florence T. Workman JD1, David A. Rosenthal MPA2, and Matthew Carbone3

Affiliation of the authors: 1 The Telemedicine Center, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; 2 Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC; 3 Ideations, LLC, Greenville, NC

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Effective response to natural or man-made disasters (i.e. terrorism) is predicated on the ability to communicate between the many organizations involved. Disaster response exercises enable disaster planners and responders to test procedures and technologies and incorporate the lessons learned from past disasters or exercises. On May 31st and June 1st, 2002, one such exercise event took place at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in Jacksonville, North Carolina. During the exercise, the East Carolina University tested: (1) in-place Telehealth networks and (2) rapidly-deployable communications, networking, and data collection technologies such as satellite communications, local wireless networking, on-scene video, and clinical and environmental data acquisition and telemetry. Exercise participants included local, county, State, and military Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Management, specialized response units, and local Fire and Police units. The technologies and operations concepts tested at the exercise and recommendations for using telehealth to improve disaster response are described.






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