Background Local health departments (LHDs) operate in a complex and dynamic public health landscape, with changing demands on their emergency response capacities. Informatics capacities might play an instrumental role in aiding LHDs emergency preparedness. This study aimed to explore the extent to which LHDs’ informatics capacities are associated with their activity level in emergency preparedn...

of performance (EPs) for “Emergency Management” (EM) Standard EM.03.01.03, which addresses emergency management exercises for the home care program. Revised EP 1 and new EPs 18 and 19 become effective January 1, 2013. The EM standards have always required organizations to align the scope of their emergency management exercises with the scope of their emergency operations plan (EOP) and response...

S 2012 1 Policy-driven Improvements In Crowding: System-level Changes Introduced By A Provincial Health Authority And Its Impact On Emergency Department Operations In

background local health departments (lhds) operate in a complex and dynamic public health landscape, with changing demands on their emergency response capacities. informatics capacities might play an instrumental role in aiding lhds emergency preparedness. this study aimed to explore the extent to which lhds’ informatics capacities are associated with their activity level in emergency preparedn...

Emergency services continue to evolve new operational and facility concepts in response to increasing demand for care and pressures for efficient, and safe, patient management. This article describes new models for "intake" of patients and for responding to peak demand that are radically changing the traditional emergency service. Application of Six Sigma and "Lean" analysis techniques are demo...

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The application of Information and Communication Technologies in emergency management environments is a challenging research topic; particularly, the applicability of C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems specifically designed for these environments. A key aspect in emergency management is the training of operatives at all lev...

The University of Agder, Norway, has recently founded a Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM). The centre brings together a highly multi-disciplinary group of local and international researchers in technology and the social sciences. This paper presents an interdisciplinary vision for large-scale integrated emergency management that has been inspired by the transition from platform ...

Information systems exist for emergency departments (EDIS’), but even the most sophisticated ones concentrate on relatively simple coordination, resource allocation and documentation aspects of emergency department operations. There is little emphasis on management of the treatment process or optimization of resource use because definitive models do not exist for patient treatment processes. Th...

Rapid estimates of hospital capacity after an event that may cause a disaster can assist disaster-relief efforts. Due to the dynamics of hospitals, following such an event, it is necessary to accurately model the behavior of the system. A transient modeling approach using simulation and exponential functions is presented, along with its applications in an earthquake situation. The parameters of...