On the one hand Web services are gaining increasing attention. A lot of standardization has improved their stability and range of application. Composition and coordination techniques for Web services enable an application integration effort beyond loosely coupled systems. On the other hand medical e-services are covered by the DICOM and HL7 communication protocols and profiled by the IHE (Integ...

Overall, our view of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is too constrained and limits services that could be provided. Some time ago, a friend remarked that EMS was unrelated to Disaster Medicine and, in fact, advised that the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and this journal (PDM) needed to concentrate either on Disaster Medicine OR EMS. More recently, this same frie...

to either of the others, or wherever they were required,(1) such transfers have, for nearly a century past, rarely been made. The names of the officers in these three Services were combined in one list, for the first time, in the Indian Army List of 1st October 1906. But they still remain on separate lists for promotion, lo these three Services, thirteen years ago, was added a fourth, the junio...