Casualty Tracking System (CTS)

Problem• Problem: Information about casualty status of

victims (arrival, treatment,discharge etc) during emergency situations is crucial and is currently unavailable on a real time basis

• Phase 1 - Goal: To create a proof of concept (POC) for Casualty Tracking System (CTS) which would satisfy the following key requirements

Casualty Tracking System (CTS)

• Objective: To create a state level database with data received from hospital workstations

• Web based application • Primary input – DMS Triage tag• Secondary input – Keyboard• Incremental growth over time from initial arrival

(progressive) data at hospital

Acceptance criteria

• The proof of concept must be able to read DMG bar code (Code 39)(Disaster Management Group, 2004)

• The proof of concept must be able to transmit DMG triage bar code to client’s machine.The proof of concept must be able to show the read DMG triage barcode in an input box on the clients web interface.

• The proof of concept must be able to create a new record in the database, which will be hosted on the server upon clicking a button on clients web interface.

• The proof of concept must be able to pull out existing record from the database and display it on clients web interface if the same DMG triage barcode is scanned in succession.

INTERNET128-bit SSL

Keyboard

CASUALTY TRACKING SYSTEMBasic components

INPUT PROCESS ONERead from DMS Triage Tagusing hand-held bar code

reader

INPUT PROCESS TWOUser input from from

hospital document usingkeyboard

HAHEOC.US

MS Small Business Server

Workstations at other agencies

State DOH DOCDLaw enforcement

Rev. 3-26-2004

Operations positions

HOSPITAL WORKSTATIONS

MS SQL 2000

HAH Emergency Operating Center

Status• First draft of Proof of Concept (POC) for

CTS project approved from Mr.Clairmont

• First demonstration of the POC made this morning for Mr.Clairmont

• Scanners are operational and tested

• Other hardware has been purchased [Server on HAH side]

System design for POC for CTS• Architecture (1) Client/Server architecture (2) Server side scripting (3) Microsoft oriented • Hardware (1) Development: Dell 1.7 Ghz, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB Lap top

(2) Server: Panasonic 1.7 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Lap Top

• Software (1) MS Windows XP Professional (2) ASP.NET, C#, MS VS.NET (3) IIS 5, SQL Server 2000 (ADO.NET)

Pending

• Finishing touches on the POC before May 15th deadline

• Updating CTS project proposal taking in account the changes made in POC document

Next Stage

• Designing a relational database for addressing POC Phase 2 of CTS System

• Incorporating basic charting and paging support

• Configuring server at HAH

• Continued research

• Cleaning up the C# code to make it more reliable and efficient