Lost Person Findera project of the Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency

Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP)

National Library of Medicine/NIH/HHS, a partner in BHEPP

Presentation at Health Stat 2.0May 20, 2010

Dr. Glenn PearsonSoftware Developer, Aquilent, Inc.

At the Communications Engineering BranchLister Hill National Center for Biomedical

Communications

National Library of Medicine

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Lost Person Finder (LPF)

Disaster occurs with mass casualties

Injured are triaged

Staff/volunteers capture text & photos of victims – initial & updates

Purpose: To address a surge of lost persons in a local disaster, by developing a prototype system to enter, search for, and display their descriptions and pictures.

Public search & entry of photos & descriptions via LPF web site,

mobile email

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LPF Database (MySQL),Web server,

Image file storage,Email interface

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Notification and status by wall displays, email, web, etc.

Includes statistics for disaster management/awareness

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“Alpha” LPF components were first fielded, successfully, during the Collaborative Multi-agency Exercise (CMAX ’09) last October.

LPF at Suburban Hospital during CMAX ’09

At the Primary Triage Station at Hospital Perimeter

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LPF at Suburban Hospital during CMAX ’09

Within the Hospital

Several “Notification Wall” display sites

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Web site reporting & search – e.g., on hospital’s Computer on Wheels (COW)

1st prototype mobile web site search on iPod Touch

LPF at National Naval Medical Center during CMAX ‘09

Ricoh camera & TriagePic manned by social workers near ER entrance

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Several “Notification Wall” displays, stations to use LPF web site for report/search

Person Finder: Haiti Earthquake

PFIF Data Exchange

Found in Haiti(now: ReUnite) iPhone App

(Planned: Web form for

other smartphones

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Interactive Notification Wall

disaster@mail.nih.gov

LPF database

& services

Haiti Earthquake Person LocatorHEPL.nlm.nih.gov

Interactive Notification Wall – HEPL’s Main Page

Haiti Earthquake Person Locator

Thanks

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Glenn_Pearson@nlm.nih.gov

National Library of Medicine/NIH/HHS, a partner in BHEPP