Disaster Response System

• US 20160034479A1
• Filed: 10/08/2015
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ruth E. Skocic
• Original Assignee: Ruth E. Skocic
• Inventors: Skocic, Ruth E.
• Application Number:
  US14/877,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20160034479A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2358 Change logging, detection, and notification replication G06F16/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

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;

erecting a temporary communications infrastructure tower for providing wireless communication capability;

searching a database in response to a request sent through the temporary communications infrastructure to the database to identify a second biometric identifier as a match to the first biometric identifier;

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

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

4. The method of identifying an individual of claim 1, wherein the temporary communications infrastructure tower communicates wirelessly with the database.

5. The method of identifying an individual of claim 1, wherein the temporary communications infrastructure tower is erected in response to the mass casualty situation.

18. The method of identifying an individual of claim 1, wherein the method further includes:

establishing a treatment sector including triage tents for emergency care to be provided to the individual; and

establishing a temporary shelter for the individual, wherein the individual has been displaced by the mass casualty situation.

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

during a preparation period

registering the 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 second biometric identifier of the user in response to an indication that the user is a victim of the mass casualty situation wherein the user is missing during the mass casualty situation;

searching the database to identify the user by matching the second biometric identifier of the user with the first biometric identifier of the user stored in the database;

updating the database with a location of the user, wherein the location of the user is identified as being at a shelter;

receiving a request of the user based on the user being the person missing;

searching the database, in response to the request of the user, for the

location of the user corresponding to the person missing; and

transmitting the location of the user in response to the request, wherein

the location is identified as being at the shelter.

6. The method of locating a person missing of claim 2, wherein registering the user is part of a large scale registration event.

7. The method of locating a person missing of claim 2, wherein the transmitting step includes:

transmitting from a server including the database the location of the user in response to the request.

8. The method of locating a person missing of claim 2, wherein registering the user occurs in response to the mass casualty situation.

9. The method of locating a person missing of claim 8, wherein registering the user occurs at a location local to the mass casualty situation.

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

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

connecting the communication central to a server device through a temporary communications infrastructure tower for providing wireless communication capability, the 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 the individual in response to an indication that the individual is a victim of the mass casualty situation by acquiring a second biometric identifier of the individual and searching the database for a match between the second biometric identifier of the individual and the biometric identifier included in the database.

10. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, wherein the temporary communications infrastructure tower communicates wirelessly with the database.

11. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, wherein the temporary communications infrastructure tower is erected in response to the mass casualty situation.

12. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, wherein the temporary communications infrastructure tower communicates with the server device using a customized protocol.

13. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 12, wherein the customized protocol communicates through at least one of an administrative system interface, a user system interface, and/or a disaster response system interface based on access rights granted to a user for communicating through the communication central.

14. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, wherein a mobile computing device acquires the second biometric identifier of the individual.

15. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, wherein a mobile computing device includes a second database comprising at least some of the information pertaining to the individual.

16. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, wherein a mobile computing device includes a second database comprising the biometric identifier of the individual.

17. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, further including:

providing the information pertaining to the individual to an emergency responder in response to a match between the second biometric identifier of the individual and the biometric identifier included in the database.

19. The method of responding to a mass casualty situation of claim 3, wherein the method further includes:

establishing a treatment sector including triage tents for emergency care to be provided to the individual; and

establishing a temporary shelter for the individual, wherein the individual has been displaced by the mass casualty situation.