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Published in final edited form as: Inf Serv Use. 2013 Dec 2;33(3-4):273–298. doi: 10.3233/ISU-130709

Table 1.

Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency Preparedness Partnership research and development projects

Communications	Patient information management	Information access	Family reunification	Hospital staff training
Laser communications between hospitals	Digital pen recording of triage data	SureScripts-Rx Hub prescription data access	Lost Person Finder	Virtual world hospital incident command system training
Dark fiber communications between hospitals	Patient data exchange among hospitals	Disaster Information Specialist
MARS radio for digital communication	Tracking patients with RFIDs
Wireless communications bridge