Information technology driven integrated decision support for mass casualty disaster management in Australia

The purpose of mass casuality disaster management is to redcuce the level of public risk associated with emergencies and disasters. High quality and responsivenets of emergency services is currently one of the Australian national priorities. Vast amount of both explicit and tacit practical disaster management knowledge has been accumulated at Medical Displan Victoria. The proposed research investigates the issues of planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of an integrated knowledge-based computer decision support system that is aimed at improving the contigency management processes in order to satisfy the demands for high qualilty and responsiveness of mass casualty disaster medical services in Australia.