Accident & Emergency Informatics (A&EI)
General aim
Accident & emergency informatics (A&EI) is a novel and trans-disciplinary science of systematic collecting and managing medical data (e.g., electronic health records) as well as sensor data from the human environment (e.g., acceleration sensors in the vehicle), their syntactic and semantic integration and their analytics, in order to forecast, prevent, or lower the impact of such events on the subject. We consider several levels:
- Environment (e.g., smart cities)
- Living space (e.g., smart homes)
- Vehicle (e.g., smart cars)
- On-body (e.g., smart wearables)
- In-body (e.g., smart implants)
Focus of research
A&EI research focus the conception (syntactic and semantic interoperability), implementation (at least on the prototype level), and operation (at least as a field experiment) of sensor-enriched medical information systems:
- Data collection: A&EI collects real-time sensor-based event data of accidents and emergencies.
- Data management: Data must be stored in appropriate registries that provide syntactic and semantic interoperability and satisfy data privacy and security.
- Data integration: Linking event-related data to medical data requires universal identifiers such as the International Standard Accident Number (ISAN).
- Data analytics: Inter-domain specific data analytics targets towards automatic alarming systems that actually save lives.