Standing on the hard concrete floor in a convention center in 2021, I watched as nurses made frustrated and frantic calls to hospitals and nursing homes. Hurricane Ida had swept through Louisiana one week prior, and now instead of booths with branded giveaways, rows...
Natural disasters continue to increase in frequency and severity on a global scale, limiting real-world opportunities for individual localities to train personnel, test plans, and apply lessons learned from previous disasters. Consequently, planning and drilling are...
HIETexas Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies™ (PULSE) Enterprise provides emergency medical response personnel in Louisiana with access to vital health information to improve care for evacuated residents September 30, 2021 06:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time...
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of adopting healthcare emergency preparedness and response plans that are flexible and scalable. During a recent HLTH webinar entitled “In Case of Emergency: Next-Generation Preparedness & Response,” health IT...
In 2021, emergency planning is more complicated than ever due to an increase in the frequency and types of events, including concurrent incidents, spanning natural disasters, public health emergencies, and man-made events. As emergencies occur more often, it is...
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is officially in full swing. In the first full month, we have experienced one-fourth of the named storms reserved for this year, with the emergence of Tropical Storms Ana, Bill, Claudette, and Danny. And we now brace for Hurricane...
The eBook addresses how disaster and emergency response organizations can leverage health information technology and care coordination tools in disaster response and recovery BALTIMORE, June 3, 2021 – Audacious Inquiry today published a new eBook highlighting...
