Which Factors Govern the Use of Emergency Response Information Systems? Insights from an Ethnographical Study of a Voluntary Fire Department

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Weidinger ◽  
Sebastian Schlauderer ◽  
Sven Overhage
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Response Information

A Normative Enterprise Architecture for Guiding End-to-End Emergency Response Decision Support

2012 ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Marich ◽  
Benjamin L. Schooley ◽  
Thomas A. Horan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Response Information ◽  
San Mateo County ◽  
Optimal Decision Making ◽  
Time Critical

This article examines the underlying architecture guiding the development and use of enterprise decision support systems that maintain the delivery of time critical public services. A normative architecture, developed from comparative cases involving San Mateo County and Mayo Clinic Emergency Medical Services systems, provides a collection of characteristics meant to guide an emergency response system toward a high level of performance and enable optimal decision-making. At a national symposium, academics and practitioners involved in promoting effective emergency response information systems provided validation for the architecture and next steps for enhancing emergency response information systems. Normative architecture characteristics and expert perspectives from the symposium are integrated into a framework that offers an enterprise approach for delivering time-critical emergency response services. This article provides recommendations for navigating toward a more incremental approach in developing enterprise-oriented emergency information services and examines future trends involving the application of normative architectural concepts to real-world emergency medical settings.

Improving Emergency Response Systems Through the Use of Intelligent Information Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Response Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information

The shifts experienced in the environment of disaster operations and emergency response are reshaping the context of information acquisition and utilization in hospitals. In addition to the formulation of emergency response plans, healthcare organizations (especially hospitals) are being challenged by the growing need to maintain and share real time information necessary for the improvement of emergency response processes. Such information-related attention originates from many emergency-specific concerns including the limited focus of current emergency response information systems, decision limitations that challenge the formulation of decision support applications and the characterization of user requirements, the heterogeneity of emergency response information and the difficulty of integrating spatially distributed information sources. The increased attention in emergency response information also emerges from the recent technological developments (in terms of hardware, software functionalities, databases and telecommunication, among others) which significantly affected the processing, storage and retrieval of real time information. This paper focuses on the examination of the context of emergency response in Al Ahsaa area of Saudi Arabia and the applicability of multi-agent information systems through the proposal of an integrated architecture. Then it sheds light on the implementation concerns to ensure the contribution of the proposed architecture towards the engagement of stakeholders, the improvement of the availability and accessibility of emergency management information and the harmonization of emergency response operations. .

A Normative Enterprise Architecture for Guiding End-to-End Emergency Response Decision Support

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Marich ◽  
Benjamin L. Schooley ◽  
Thomas A. Horan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Response Information ◽  
San Mateo County ◽  
High Level ◽  
Time Critical

This article examines the underlying architecture guiding the development and use of enterprise decision support systems that maintain the delivery of time critical public services. A normative architecture, developed from comparative cases involving San Mateo County and Mayo Clinic Emergency Medical Services systems, provides a collection of characteristics meant to guide an emergency response system toward a high level of performance and enable optimal decision-making. At a national symposium, academics and practitioners involved in promoting effective emergency response information systems provided validation for the architecture and next steps for enhancing emergency response information systems. Normative architecture characteristics and expert perspectives from the symposium are integrated into a framework that offers an enterprise approach for delivering time-critical emergency response services. This article provides recommendations for navigating toward a more incremental approach in developing enterprise-oriented emergency information services and examines future trends involving the application of normative architectural concepts to real-world emergency medical settings.

Confined Space Emergency Response: Assessing Employer and Fire Department Practices

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Wilson ◽  
Heather N. Madison ◽  
Stephen B. Healy
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Confined Space
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