Near field communications (NFC) is an emerging technology that may potentialy assist with disaster management. A smartphone-based app was designed to help track patient flow in real time. A table-drill was held as a brief evaluation and it showed significant imporvement in both efficacy and accuracy of patient management. It is feasible to use NFC-embedded smartphones to clarify the ambiguous and chaotic patient flow in a mass casualty incident. Due to the limited information in the early phase of rescue operation in the mass casualty incident (MCI), the government, emergency medicine service (EMS) systems and the population in Taiwan usually get the ambiguous information of damage. Utilization of the medical electronics with well-established infrastructure of information communication technology to manage affected population in such scenario is thought to be practical and useful. Near field communications (NFC) is an emerging technology that may be potential to develop novel disaster management systems [1]. Recently, an NFC based medication system may be used to effectively reduce medication errors in a simulated environment [2]. The aim of the project is managing the dataflow of the patients withthe NFC-embedded smartphones.
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