Best Practices for Rural Traffic Safety Webinar Series
CrashHelp: An Innovative Tool to Assist in Rural EMS Response
A webinar sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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About the Event
Over the past five years, researchers with CERS and the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute at the University of Minnesota have investigated the role that information technology plays in improving emergency medical responses to victims of rural automobile crashes. The aim is to reduce the adverse health impacts of automobile crash trauma, especially those in rural areas, where crashes account for a high percentage of trauma injury and death. The research team has used their findings to develop the CrashHelp system.
CrashHelp enables emergency responders to collect multimedia data about crash victims on-scene using a smartphone and send it directly into emergency rooms. This provides hospitals with advance notification of crash severity and related information that can be used to prepare for a patient’s arrival. This webinar provided an overview of the CrashHelp system and highlighted the results of a pilot test recently undertaken in Boise, Idaho.
Speaker
Tom Horan is a professor and dean of the School of Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University. He also serves as the research director for CERS. Horan has approximately 25 years of experience in major intelligent transportation, e-government, and e-health innovations
Sponsors
This seminar is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration.
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