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ArticleJournal of medical systems2012

Implementing telemedicine in medical emergency response: concept of operation for a regional telemedicine hub.

Wei Xiong, Aaron Bair, Christian Sandrock, Sophia Wang, Javeed Siddiqui, Nathaniel Hupert

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Article in Journal of medical systems, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. Telehealth in emergency medicine: A consensus conference to map the intersection of telehealth and emergency medicine.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2021
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  10. Discrete-Event Simulation Modeling in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  13. Regional Heterogeneity of Application and Effect of Telemedicine in the Primary Care Centres in Rural China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  14. Telenursing: A step for care management in disaster and emergencies.Journal of education and health promotion · 2020
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  20. Use of telemedicine in disaster and remote places.Journal of education and health promotion · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Wei XiongDepartment of Public Health and Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
Aaron Bair
Christian Sandrock
Sophia Wang
Javeed Siddiqui
Nathaniel Hupert

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A regional telemedicine hub, providing linkage of a telemedicine command center with an extended network of clinical experts in the setting of a natural or intentional disaster, may facilitate future disaster response and improve patient outcomes. However, the health benefits derived from the use of telemedicine in disaster response have not been quantitatively analyzed. In this paper, we present a general model of the application of telemedicine to disaster response and evaluate a concept of operations for a regional telemedicine hub, which would create distributed surge capacity using regional telemedicine networks connecting available healthcare and telemedicine infrastructures to external expertise. Specifically, we investigate (1) the scope of potential use of telemedicine in disaster response; (2) the operational characteristics of a regional telemedicine hub using a new discrete-event simulation model of an earthquake scenario; and (3) the benefit that the affected population may gain from a coordinated regional telemedicine network.

Indexed as

Emergency Service, HospitalProgram DevelopmentDisaster PlanningEarthquakesHumansModels, OrganizationalTelemedicine

Identifiers

PMID21161569
PMCPMC3345114

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