TY - GEN
T1 - R-CAST-MED
T2 - 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2007
AU - Zhu, Shizhuo
AU - Abraham, Joanna
AU - Paul, Sharoda A.
AU - Reddy, Madhu
AU - Yen, John
AU - Pfaff, Mark
AU - DeFlitch, Christopher
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Decision support systems
KW - Information management
KW - Intelligent agent
KW - Mass casualty incidents
KW - Simulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=35148882541&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:35148882541
SN - 3540735984
SN - 9783540735984
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 24
EP - 33
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2007, Proceedings
Y2 - 7 July 2007 through 11 July 2007
ER -