Citation

Teich JM, Wagner MM, Mackenzie CF, Schafer KO. J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 2002; 9(2): 97-104.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. jteich@harvard.edu

Comment In:

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2002 Mar-Apr;9(2):202-3

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, American Medical Informatics Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11861621

PMCID

PMC344563

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.

Language: en