Abstract
Disaster eHealth is a new area of research and endeavor. In order to make a practical contribution disaster eHealth approaches should consider the role of a disaster eHealth appliance. Both disaster management and disaster medicine may find that such approaches allow critical information to be gathered and situational awareness improved. Self-care of chronic disease and caregiving by others as well as the injuries and disease caused by the disaster may be also supported by this approach. Re-using existing devices may offer a relatively low-cost and sustainable approach to providing such devices, and infrastructure to use them.
