The Study of Integrated Information Platform Construction in Disaster Medicine Management
Sheng Zhong, Xin Liu · 2015
INTRODUCTION "Information security" (IA) is the concept that firstly put forward by the United States department of defense in the 1990s, which has been widely recognized after several times modified.[1] Information security described in this article is a series of measures, which is to meet the information need for all kinds of users in medical emergency management after disasters, including the establishment of the organization, information gathering, processing, communication, methods of the evaluation process, system platform support, etc.We try to fully exert the role of information in disaster medicine management for ensuring the smooth operation in the disaster medicine management.Although China have response actively and made great progress in information security work during the SARS and the wenchuan earthquake, it still exposed problems during the sudden disaster, including the aspects of ideas, mechanism, institution, especially for the lag of the communication: (1) there is no uniform information platform, and the information acquisition still depend on each participators respectively (such as rescue teams, medical institutions, the fire department, etc.), leading to many information to be isolated islands.So the lack of a unified management is serious in the process.(2) Since there is no unified platform, information asymmetry and the long time of information acquisition will affect information release, even to the rescue activities.As the Chinese disaster appears more frequently, the information becomes more particularly important in the relief, it can not only improve the effectiveness of disaster relief, but also will save lives in emergencies.Although this has attracted some attentions and some departments has built information platform in practice after "SARS" and wenchuan earthquake, it still have some problems.The fundamental problem is that all information do not standardize, different information cannot effectively share and exchange in one platform.This problem will only be solved after the construction of national information platform.However, we have many problems at the beginning of the construction.Firstly, we don't have a unified plan in information platform construction.Secondly, there is no specific unit or department to guarantee and take responsible for it.Finally, there is no capital and resources guaranteed to support the construction.Although it is hard to construct the information platform in disaster medicine management, we might still push it to develop.There are five necessities as follows: A solid data support in disaster medicine management If we would have constructed the integrated information platform in disaster medicine management, we could improve the effectiveness of information collection, processing, maintenance and use.We could constantly complete information