April 16, 2010

UTMB Telemedicine Disaster Response and Recovery: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ike

Texas Medical Branch released his report titled UTMB Telemedicine Disaster Response and Recovery: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ike. Vo wrote this report with the intent to describe the impact Hurricane Ike had on UTMB's electronically mediated medical services and how UTMB telemedicine services recovered and responded in the storms? wake. Also in the report, Vo identifies ways and approaches whereby telemedicine systems and infrastructures can be better prepared not only to respond to, but also to recover from, future impending disasters. The main topics outlined in his report are impact on disasters on health, overview of UTMB telemedicine, information on Hurricane Ike, telemedicine recovery, creating a fault-tolerant network, and telemedicine lessons learned from Hurricane Ike.