A Social Networks Data Historian Supporting Research in Emergency & Disaster Medicine and Management.

The aim of this initial research is to show that data and information collected from Internet Social Networks support the understanding of individual and collective behaviors which can help emergencies and disasters managers to mitigate and to improve preparedness programs for future similar events and to make more suitable decisions.

Risk and Disaster Management: From Planning and Expertise to Smart, Intelligent, and Adaptive Systems.

"Disaster" means some surprising and misfortunate event. Its definition is broad and relates to complex environments. Medical Informatics approaches, methodologies and systems are used as a part of Disaster and Emergency Management systems.

De-freezing frozen patient management.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of two methods in encouraging the consideration of a leap from one patient management routine to another: (i) real-time review of the facts by an external medical team (ii) implementation of the 're-thinking-protocol' ('de-Freezing') by both treating and external medical teams.

Design: Students accompanied doctors, nurses and patients as non-interrupting observers. When an obvious gap between the expected and actual findings occurred, it was discussed four times: by two teams (treating team, external medical team) in two discussion modes (real-time review, de-Freezing-questionnaire).

Time to follow guidelines, protocols, and structured procedures in medical care and time to leap out.

Present medical practice encourages management according to written guidelines, protocols, and structured procedures (GPPs). Daily medical practice includes instances in which "leaping" from one patient management routine to another is a must. We define "frozen patient management", when patient management leaping was required but was not performed.