“In any emergency situation where human lives are at stake, seconds count,” says Nick Gragnani, Deputy Director of the St. Louis Area Regional Response System (STARRS). “Better medical information provided more quickly means more lives saved.”
STARRS, a regional planning organization that helps the bi-state St. Louis area plan and prepare for critical incidents, needed a patient tracking solution to enable regional first responders to relay patient data from the scene of the incident to hospitals, emergency operations personnel and other authorized public officials in real time. In this issue of
Inspired, read about how IBM, in partnership with EMSystem, Symbol, Panasonic, Sprint and Cingular, brought it all together using RFID and WiFi technologies.
You’ll also learn how the recent IBM InnovationJam enabled brainstorming without boundaries… how the State of Oregon is winning nationwide recognition for the way it enables citizens to easily receive and pay for many government services online… and how Dr. Standford-Clark used pervasive computing to build a better mousetrap. All this and more in this issue of
Inspired, which features stories about organizations and businesses in education, government, and healthcare and life sciences that are collaborating with others to help them bridge the gap between inspiration and innovation.
