WIISARD SAGE: Self-Scaling Systems for Mass Casualty Management

WIISARD SAGE：用于大规模伤亡管理的自扩展系统

• 批准号: 7933660
• 负责人: WILLIAM G GRISWOLD
• 金额: $ 159.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2012-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7933660
• 关键词: Address; Architecture; Area; Beds; Caring; Client; Clinical; Collaborations; Communication; Computer Systems; Computer software; Contracts; Coupled; Data; Disasters; Discipline; Effectiveness; Electromagnetics; Employee Strikes; Environment; Exercise; Fire - disasters; Frequencies; Growth; Helicopter; Informatics; Information Technology; Internet; Knowledge; Laws; Measurement; Measures; Medical; Medical Assistance; Medical Informatics; Modeling; Outcome; Performance; Protocols documentation; Publishing; Radio communications; Research; Research Infrastructure; Services; Site; Speed; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Training; Wireless Technology; Work; base; computer science; design; emergency service responder; innovation; medical information system; metropolitan; middleware; operation; prevent; response; tool; transmission process; user centered design; wireless network; working group

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A critical issue for disaster response is group or collaborative computing in mobile environments. This application describes research to address three critical inter-related problems that inhibit the successful use of information technologies at disaster sites to manage medical care. Problem #1: Disaster sites often have a noisy and chaotic electromagnetic environment that makes wireless networks unreliable. Practical systems for disaster response must have architectures that preserve first responder work flows, including mobile group work, even during disruptions that might prevent connects to any central server. Problem #2: First responders typically arrive at the scene of disaster sites one company at a time and organize themselves based on the Incident Command System. Practical systems for disaster response must be interoperable and self-scaling with progressive growth of capabilities as first responders arrive at the scene. Problem #3: The capabilities of computer systems in disaster environments will change from moment to moment based on connectivity and infrastructure. How can we convey this information to users and design applications that will use this information in a seamless way to enhance work flow? This application describes research using the Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters (WIISARD) test bed to study how best to address these issues by creating self-scaling systems for disaster management. One aim will be to research models for transactions for systems that relax the requirement for data transactions to close simultaneously through the system and identify types of transaction models best suited to the domain of disaster response. Other work will examine how publish/subscribe protocols can be adapted to yield self-scaling systems. User oriented design and other design exercises will help refine the features of interfaces of core medical applications for disaster care that use these alternative transaction models and also expand and contract in scope of operations. Measurements of the effectiveness of models and innovations will be performed using the entire WIISARD test bed in large disaster drills with the San Diego Regional Metropolitan Medical Strike Team and Disaster Medical Assistant Team CA-4. Measures will include network and application performance, speed of transmission of information, and effects on clinical work flow. If successful, this research will overcome critical technical obstacles that prevent the effective use of computer systems to support medical care at disaster sites.

描述（由申请人提供）： 灾难响应的一个关键问题是移动的环境中的群组或协作计算。这个应用程序描述了研究，以解决三个关键的相互关联的问题，抑制成功地使用信息技术在灾难现场管理医疗保健。问题1：灾难现场通常有一个嘈杂和混乱的电磁环境，使无线网络不可靠。实际的灾难响应系统必须具有这样的架构，即即使在可能阻止连接到任何中央服务器的中断期间，也能保留第一响应者的工作流，包括移动的组工作。问题二：第一响应者通常一次一个公司到达灾难现场，并根据事故指挥系统组织自己。实用的救灾系统必须具有互操作性，并随着第一批救灾人员到达现场而逐步提高能力，进行自我调整。问题3：计算机系统在灾难环境中的能力将根据连接性和基础设施随时发生变化。我们如何将这些信息传达给用户，并设计出能够无缝使用这些信息的应用程序来增强工作流？ 该应用程序描述了研究使用无线互联网信息系统在灾难中的医疗响应（WIISARD）测试床，研究如何最好地解决这些问题，通过创建自缩放系统的灾难管理。一个目标是研究系统的交易模式，这些系统放宽了数据交易通过系统同时结束的要求，并确定最适合救灾领域的交易模式类型。其他工作将研究如何发布/订阅协议可以适应产生自缩放系统。面向用户的设计和其他设计工作将有助于改进使用这些替代交易模式的灾害护理核心医疗应用程序界面的功能，并扩大和缩小业务范围。模型和创新的有效性测量将在圣地亚哥地区大都会医疗打击队和灾难医疗助理队CA-4的大型灾难演习中使用整个WIISARD测试台进行。衡量标准将包括网络和应用程序性能、信息传输速度以及对临床工作流程的影响。如果成功，这项研究将克服关键的技术障碍，阻止有效使用计算机系统来支持灾难现场的医疗护理。