System and method for emergency response
First Claim
1. A method for emergency response, comprising:
- acquiring data regarding a potential emergency situation from a plurality of heterogeneous sources selected from the group of sources composed of mobile sensing and communicating devices, fixed sensing and communicating devices, private databases, public databases and third-party information systems, including medical and non-medical data from medical and non-medical sources potentially indicative of a biological emergency;
communicating the data directly from two or more of the plurality of heterogeneous sources in an automated manner;
integrating the acquired data into a common data model that allows for subsequent analysis and presentation;
detecting or predicting the existence, scale and scope of an emergency situation by correlative analysis of the integrated data, by use of one or more computer systems;
providing advisories as to how best to respond to a detected or predicted emergency situation;
communicating data regarding the detected or predicted emergency situation for collaborative situation assessment and response planning; and
generating a multidimensional graphical user interface for allowing a user to visually interpret the acquired data.
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Abstract
This application describes an information and resource management system for collecting data from diverse sources and organizing multiple types of data and information to facilitate dynamic multi-dimensional displays that will enhance cognition and situational awareness for diverse user communities. This system may facilitate collaborative cross-agency research and response to public health and safety issues. The system will generate more rapid awareness of potentially critical situations and promote greater awareness of the cost and benefits of alternative courses of action across diverse agencies and organizations serving common populations and communities. The invention includes customized geographically enabled data collection tools and techniques, dedicated databases and parsing schemes that feed into customized data visualization and simulation engines that drive the display of context sensitive interactive environments on a wide variety of computing platforms. The invention provides a novel approach to inter-disciplinary information integration processing, visualization, sharing and decision-making in the domain of public health and safety, disaster management and mitigation.
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15 Claims
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1. A method for emergency response, comprising:
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acquiring data regarding a potential emergency situation from a plurality of heterogeneous sources selected from the group of sources composed of mobile sensing and communicating devices, fixed sensing and communicating devices, private databases, public databases and third-party information systems, including medical and non-medical data from medical and non-medical sources potentially indicative of a biological emergency; communicating the data directly from two or more of the plurality of heterogeneous sources in an automated manner; integrating the acquired data into a common data model that allows for subsequent analysis and presentation; detecting or predicting the existence, scale and scope of an emergency situation by correlative analysis of the integrated data, by use of one or more computer systems; providing advisories as to how best to respond to a detected or predicted emergency situation; communicating data regarding the detected or predicted emergency situation for collaborative situation assessment and response planning; and generating a multidimensional graphical user interface for allowing a user to visually interpret the acquired data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for responding to a biological emergency comprising:
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a plurality of inputs from two or more sources selected from the group of sources composed of mobile sensing and communicating devices, fixed sensing and communicating devices, private databases, public databases and third-party information systems for providing heterogeneous data that may be indicative of a biological emergency, including medical and non-medical data from medical and non-medical sources potentially indicative of a biological emergency; a plurality of databases for storing the data; an integrating portion for integrating the data into a common data model that allows for subsequent analysis and presentation; a monitoring portion that automatically receives the heterogeneous data directly from a laurel of sources of the heterogeneous data, communicates with the databases and monitors the data, wherein the monitoring portion correlates and analyzes the integrated data in order to detect statistical abnormalities within the data model indicating a possible biological emergency, and transmits data regarding statistical abnormalities; a display engine that is adapted to receive the data regarding the statistical abnormalities, and to filter the data according to a user profile in order to determine which data to display to a user; and
,a communication system that is adapted to receive the filtered data from the display engineer and to transmit the data for display on a user device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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