[Cadm-developer] our applications use case

[Christoph E. <cen...@br...>]

 From a mail I send to someone interested in joining our team:

We intend to programm an application that can be used out in the field 
(mostly on laptops) by some PEBKAC users (so we will need a really easy 
to handle piece of software).
The leader will normally have some set of pre-defined units  he can put 
to work. So for example if he is in the EMS branch of  disaster 
management in Germany he will have quite the following things:
- ambulances ==> 1 driver, 1 EMT; maximum of 2 patient ( 1 horizontal, 1 
sitting)
- Mobile Intensive Care Units ==> 1 driver, 1 paramedic, maximum of 1 
patient (horizontal)
- emergency ambulances ==> 1 driver, 1 field EMT (low education) , 
maximum of 4 patients horizontal
- emergency physician car ==> 1 emergency physician, no transportation 
capacity
- rapid response teams ==> contain emergency ambulances, some 25 
personnel, treatment and transportation capabilities for at most 16 
patients

So when the leader is called to a disaster he will start our application 
and create a new project ( disaster). He will define which units are 
already at work at the scene and will split up the scene into different 
"areas". He will then assign his units to different tasks withhin this 
areas.
This tasks will mainly be:
- triage all possibly affected people at the scene (sort them in 
categories 1 (needs emergency treatment) through 4 ( no chance to 
survive under conditions of disaster medicine)
- bring the triaged patient to a field hospital ( no surgery)
- arrange the transportation of patients to a real hospital
- keep the field hospital and ambulances going ( they tend to need lots 
of gas )

In most cases some units may arrive later than the leader, so he will 
have to spend time to put them into the application, too.
Another time consuming task is writing the incident book, where he will 
record every order and report he gets.
And then in turn he has to report to his superior leader.

We intend on alleviating these tasks:
- automatically write an incident book based upon the inputs into the 
programm
- generate reports and send them to a central server (something we 
wanted to do later on)
- keep track of all units in the field

Also there are a lot of other organisations involved in disaster relief 
and we would like to build a software that can be used by anyone 
anywhere for nearly any purpose.

Greetings Christoph