Distributive medical management system

Abstract

Medical readiness has become a critical concern world wide. Threats across diverse operation environments, coupled with critical voids in both medical management and medical skills has made the development of new training and management tools and operational assessment methods for firstresponders a high priority across global communities. That first response role incorporates a broad array of individuals providing field-based emergency medical services. As recently observed during and after the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina disaster in the United States, critical technological tools and training resources were not available to ensure that the involved first responders had pertinent information available to them to properly do their jobs. The deficiencies must be rectified in order to insure rapid response to natural and man made disasters. Tools that distribute knowledge to aid a range of first responders in evaluating a medical situation, guide them in the uniform collection and reporting of critical information and provide telemedicine clinical reach back to medical experts are essential components of today's medical preparedness. The Distributive Medical Curricula Architecture (DMCA) is designed to provide access to "just-in-time" training and streamline assessment and management of remote medical situations across military and civilian environments nationally and internationally. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.