Mobile clinical support system for pediatric emergencies
Decision Support Systems
CAST: collaborative agents for simulating teamwork
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
A dynamic, data-driven, decision support system for emergency medical services
ICCS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II
Personalized emergency medical assistance for disabled people
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
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Decision-making is a crucial aspect of emergency response during mass casualty incidents (MCIs). MCIs require rapid decisions to be taken by geographically-dispersed teams in an environment characterized by insufficient information, ineffective collaboration and inadequate resources. Despite the increasing adoption of decision support systems in healthcare, there is limited evidence of their value in large-scale disasters. We conducted focus groups with emergency medical services and emergency department personnel who revealed that one of the main challenges in emergency response during MCIs is information management. Therefore, to alleviate the issues arising from ineffective information management, we propose R-CAST-MED, an intelligent agent architecture built on Recognition-Primed Decision-making (RPD) and Shared Mental Models (SMMs). A simulation of R-CAST-MED showed that this tool enabled efficient information management by identifying relevant information, inferring missing information and sharing information with other agents, which led to effective collaboration and coordination of tasks across teams.