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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

The informatics response in disaster, terrorism, and war.

Jonathan M Teich, Michael M Wagner, Colin F Mackenzie, Klaus O Schafer

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Propagation of program control: a tool for distributed disease surveillance.International journal of medical informatics · 2007
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  7. Timeliness of emergency department diagnoses for syndromic surveillance.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2006
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  8. Handheld computer application for medical disaster management.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2006
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  9. An Intelligent 802.11 Triage Tag for medical response to disasters.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2005
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  14. Medical informatics and preparedness.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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  17. Implementing syndromic surveillance: a practical guide informed by the early experience.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonathan M TeichDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. jteich@harvard.edu
Michael M Wagner
Colin F Mackenzie
Klaus O Schafer

Funding

The internship in Biomedical Research, Informatics, and Computer Science (iBRIC): Biomedical Informatics and Data Science research experiences for students from Minority Serving InstitutionsT15LM007059 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI HARRY S HOCHHEISER · 1987 to 2026
$23.9M
IAIMS IMPLEMENTATION--ADVANCING THE ACADEMIC MISSIONG08LM006625 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BARNES, BARBARA E · 1998 to 2002
$1.6M
NLM NIH HHS GO8 LM06625-01NLM NIH HHS T15 LM/DE07059ODCDC CDC HHS U90/CCU318753-01PHS HHS 290-00-0009PHS HHS GNL M000003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

Indexed as

BioterrorismDisastersMedical InformaticsWarfareDecision Support Systems, ClinicalDisaster PlanningHumansPopulation SurveillanceRescue WorkTelemedicine

Identifiers

PMID11861621
PMCPMC344563

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