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The aim of our research is to develop new technologies to protect medical systems from earthquakes and to develop technologies to improve disaster medical capabilities. |
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Medical and logistics facilities are protected and reinforced in order to ensure the safety and resilience of medical services during disasters. Modern medical systems are huge and sophisticated and highly vulnerable to earthquakes, but our man-machine approach, supported by advanced information technology, helps ensure them to survive. The two key points here are to establish safe medical facilities and to improve disaster medical services. Because the present medical system has developed into a large scale, highly sophisticated system, it is vulnerable to earthquakes and other disasters. In our research, we strive to improve the disaster prevention capabilities of the medical system by developing technologies that will strengthen the earthquake resistance of the entire system, including buildings, lifelines, information systems, medical equipments, and human actions. Also, we are working on developing medical logistic systems, which consider response actions such as medical teams dispatch, patient transportation beyond borders, and cooperation between medical facilities, police and fire departments, local governments, military, and commercial and other private contributions. |
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Medical System Safety and Resiliency Research Team
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Our research objective is to develop the overall information system to achieve the reduction of natural disasters by applying IT (Information Technology). |
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Society is becoming more vulnerable due to the aging population and the shift towards a nuclear family. The concept of a risk adaptive regional management system (RARMIS) was proposed after field studies of the great Hanshin Awaji earthquake disaster, and NIED has developed high-performance spacial-temporal GIS (Geographical Information System) software under the concept. The system, which has been realized as a practical system, has been applied to local governments to support their citizens through an improved ability and services in order to achieve a cost effective system for daily tasks, to promote the ability of officers, and to enhance services for vulnerable peoples. This activity is also focused on an international collaborative activity using the concept of a culture based common system architecture and RARMIS. |
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Information Technology Implementation for Disaster Mitigation research Team
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Our objectives are to compile knowledge on good technologies and practices for disaster reduction, which are appropriate for implementation, and to develop an information base system for collecting and sharing such knowledge among countries and regions worldwide. |
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The aim of our research is to cnstruc a Web database system, collecting and developing the contents of disaster reduction technologies under the worldwide cooperation of various specialists. Since there are various disaster reduction technologies in the world and various technologies, not only engineering technologies but also some kinds of process technologies and indigenous knowledges, our Web database system has unique mechanisms; all of the process (acceptance of contents proposal, improving with discussions among proposer, manager and facilitators, opinion recruitments and reflections, and publication through the Internet) can be conducted on the system. Our system is now used as the base system of Disaster Reduction Hyperbase - Asian Application (DRH-Asia). We also investigate the application of these contents to the other area practically. The relation between characteristics of the region (e.g., history, culture, and society and natural environments) and these technologies are also investigated and we propose the application strategy. |
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Disaster reduction Knowledge Networking Research Team
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