Oncology Clinic Gains Efficiency, Safety With RFID

From RFID Jornal Online
July 27, 2011
By Claire Swedberg

The UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center is using ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) passive RFID tags to track the movements of patients and staff members into and out of waiting and examination rooms, as well as through therapy, to ensure that no one waits excessively, and proper equipment is used.  Read more.

Comment:  This is use of geospatial technologies on a micro-scale.  Indeed, several companies like GE are now promoting similar approaches for tracking the location of all items in a hospital.   However, when blended with triage tagging, the real importance of this approach emerges - it would be a highly effective way to manage a mass casualty event.  Unfortunately, acceptance of this approach has been limited, with only a handful of disconnected deployments of the technology.  Go here for a background piece about efforts in Anaheim, CA, and here for a research piece published in Japan.

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Satellite Images to Combat Avian Flu

GeoConnexion Online
20 June 2011, 5:17pm
"It is not only domestic poultry but also wild waterbirds that play a significant role in the spread of the avian influenza variant H5N1. With the aid of satellite data, it is possible to create risk maps for the spread of the virus by wild waterbirds. This has been shown in research by Yali Si, who obtained her doctoral degree from the ITC faculty of the University of Twente on 16 June."  Read more.
Comment: In the early part of 2005, Professor A. Townsend Peterson, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Kansas University, released some ground breaking work along these same lines for the North American continent.  Those efforts focused on using historic migratory flyways to determine the likelihood of an avian flu outbreak at any specific location inside the United States, as sequenced across time.

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Interstate Chemical Threats Workgroup (ICTW) July Newsletter

Formed in early 2002, the ICTW is a national network of local, state, and federal health agencies which allows for sharing of knowledge, materials, and resources to define the role of state and local health agencies in a chemical terrorism event.  For the past several years, they have published a monthly newletter that is an absolutely invaluable information resource concerning this area of response.  To view the July newletter, click here. 

At the bottom of the newsletter, please note the link to the free online lecture, "Mapping and Tracking Vulnerable Populations Using Geospatial Technologies", sponsored by the Pacific Emergency Management, Preparedness, and Response Information Network and Training Services (Pacific-EMPRINTS).   Hawaii based Pacific-EMPRINTS hosts many excellent online training modules - several of which discuss the use of geospatial technologies in the emergency services sector.

ICTW is planning to discontinue the newsletter in early fall and replace it with a comprehensive website.  When that development takes place, the new EPC web site (which is currently under construction) will host a link to that site.

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