DISASTER RESPONSE SYSTEM

• US 20120317131A1
• Filed: 06/08/2012
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ruth E. Skocic
• Original Assignee: Ruth E. Skocic
• Inventors: Skocic, Ruth E.
• Application Number:
  US13/492,537
• Publication Number:
  US 20120317131A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Health care data and other information about a person is stored in memory accessible to a server. The server allows users to access the health care data and information, such as across a communication network. In some embodiments a biometric identifier for a person is stored with the information. The biometric identifier can be used to control access to a person'"'"'s records and to quickly locate information associated with a particular person during a disaster.

Claims

1. A method of identifying an individual during a mass casualty situation, comprising:

acquiring a first biometric identifier of the individual involved in the mass casualty situation;

searching a database to identify a second biometric identifier as a match to the first biometric identifier;

the second biometric identifier being associated with a user and stored in the database together with information pertaining to the user; and

receiving at least some of the information pertaining to the individual associated with the second biometric identifier from the database.

2. A method of locating a person missing during a mass casualty situation, comprising:

during a preparation period

registering a user by receiving user data including a first biometric identifier;

storing the user data and the first biometric identifier in a database and associating the first biometric identifier with the user data in the database;

during the mass casualty situation

acquiring a biometric identifier of a victim;

searching the database to identify the victim by matching the biometric identifier of the victim with the biometric identifier of a user stored in the database;

updating the database with a location of the victim;

receiving a request of the person missing;

searching the database for the location of the victim corresponding to the person missing; and

transmitting the location of the person missing in response to the request.

3. A method of responding to a mass casualty situation, comprising:

establishing a communication central for coordinating work between a plurality of emergency response functions;

connecting the communication central to a server device including a processor and memory, the memory including a database comprising information pertaining to an individual and a biometric identifier of the individual associated with the information; and

identifying a victim by acquiring a biometric identifier of the victim and searching the database for a match between the biometric identifier of the victim and the biometric identifier of an individual.