About
This site is provided by the
United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Maryland.NLM is part of the
National Institutes of Health, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, and has in its mission the development and coordination of communication technology to improve the delivery of health services. This site is provided for the purpose of studying the utility of such tools in responding to disasters. The underlying technology was developed through NLM's
Lost Person Finder (LPF) project, part of NLM's contribution to the
Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP). The partnership (BHEPP) received initial federal funding for LPF and other NLM IT projects in 2008-9. The LPF project is currently supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, through NLM's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC). Software development is headed by LHNCBC's Communication Engineering Branch (CEB), with additional content from LHNCBC's Computer Science Branch (CSB) and the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC), part of NLM's Specialized Information Services.
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Attribution
The Lost Person Finder project and the People Locator are developed and hosted
by the
US National Library of Medicine
which is a part of the
National Institutes of Health
under the
Department of Health and Human Services
in Collaboration with the
Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Partnership of which
Suburban Hospital,
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,
and the
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center are members
with some portions of code contributed by the
Sahana Software Foundation.
