Technology and Innovation in Emergency and First Response Systems: Trends in UAVS and Digital Health Applications

Abstract

Disruptive technology will continue to change the way emergency medical and first response services are organized and executed, with faster access to situational awareness, coordinated efforts, and better patient-centric care. Conventional emergency response systems suffered from delayed access to the scenes, clustered and imprecise communication, inadequate real-time health reports most especially in emergencies and large-scale accidents. Recent development in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and digital health applications provides potential responses to these challenges by facilitating the quick access to information, remote diagnosis and datadriven intervention (Clarke et al., 2014; Chowdhury et al., 2017).