Automated Dispatch System for Medical Ambulances
Abstract
An important marker of quality emergency
medical care is measured by meeting the required response time. The nature of
some highly time sensitive medical situations such as cardiac arrest and
bleeding continues to impose a demand to improve the response time of emergency
medical care services. Automated dispatch system for medical ambulances (ADMA).
This is a system that is needed to help ensure that the ambulance dispatching
company meets all federal mandates about the speed at which an ambulance is
dispatched. In order to make this possible, the system greatly decreases the
amount of paperwork that must be filed. This system shall also ensure that
there is an adequate amount of ambulance for each of the service area by
enabling the management to track the status of each ambulance and a log of
ambulance activity. The system is a computer aided dispatch system (CAD) that
receives a phone call from a service provider, records the details of an
emergency incident including location, finds the next available ambulance and
dispatches the ambulance under three minutes. The system was developed using Hyper pre-processor (PHP),
Hypertext mark-up language(HTML),JavaScript and My structured Query language (MySQL)
which was used as the tool for creating the database in the system. The design of the system was
done using Sublime text and Easy PHP. The unified modelling language will also
be used to diagrams on how the system would work and how information would be
processed. This dispatch system for medical ambulances has the plausibility to
provide efficient and reliable information storage, herby reducing the paper
work and improving the rate of dispatching ambulances.
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1 Background information
The Automated dispatch system for
medical ambulance (ADMAN) is a web based application that efficiently responds
to a phone call from all networks concerning medical emergencies and the finds an available ambulance to
respond to the emergency. It has the peculiar ability to locate the shortest
route to the location of emergency and contacting the nearest ambulance service
on the route in other to reach the emergency point as fast as possible. The
traffic problems faced are escaped with the use of the system [CITATION jos12
\l 1033 ]. It also records the details of an emergency and also the location of
the emergency. The application of computer technology would go a long way in
making activities a lot easier. This system is developed in order to locate an
available ambulance near the location of the incident and dispatch them according
to requirement. The benefit of using
computer surpasses that of the manual method. As particularly computer
technology, the dispatching of emergency medical resources took a new dimension
and requires new skill sets. The process of dispatching was supported by
computers and moved in many locates to a paperless system that require above
average computer skills. The ambulance dispatch system will monitor the
locations and status of response resources, thereby making response
recommendations to the human dispatchers. Human dispatchers get to view the
physical movement of their resources across a computerized map.
An Automated Dispatch System for Medical Ambulances