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Comcare - Informed Emergency Response

Check out this video if you get a chance -

http://www.comcare.org/Video.html

Interesting tie-ins to our discussions on open communication...and the 35W collapse.
Part of a Clinical/Public Health Informatics course presentation last week.

Posted by brow1769 on February 10, 2008 8:13 PM |

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Thanks for the post Jessica! This is very interesting. I like how the Director of COMCARE said on the video, "We need a 411 for 911." That statement really stuck to me. I am hopeful that emergency response technology will only improve so that any tragedies like 35W bridge collapse that would happen in the future would be less tragic. Thanks again.

Posted by: Hoang-Uyen N. | February 11, 2008 12:40 PM

Thanks for sharing this. I had no appreciation of the role of information technology in emergency response before seeing this video. It makes me especially grateful when we see how poor countries like Pakistan must cope with emergencies. Can you imagine a doctor standing outside HCMC with a megafone asking for blood donations???

Posted by: Sara M. | February 17, 2008 11:44 AM

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