| Abstract 
              -- Realtime transmission of medical information is 
              important for decision making and coordination in disasters. In 
              order to ensure successful communication of medical information, 
              and efficient allocation of resources, in adequate time, place and 
              amount, it is necessary to establish an interface between various 
              communication devices and the database of emergency medical resources. 
              The personnel could be equipped with any available mobile devices 
              such as PDA, analog wireless systems, etc, to report the status 
              of disasters. The first year of this project, we focus on the study 
              of connectivity between communications devices and database interfaces. 
              We have finished designing the WEB and WAP interface to collect 
              disaster data. In second year, we add the PDA interface to the web 
              site to make it more powerful. On the other hand, we begin to investigate 
              the application of wireless communication devices such as radio 
              modems. In the disasters, the power and public communication facilities 
              may be damaged, we indeed require the wireless devices to communicate 
              to the emergency sites.
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