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Katastropen- und Krisenmanagement

  • USA: HHS seeking physician qualifications Web portal

    The Health and Human Services Department is seeking industry information about developing a nationwide verification system to provide the department with the professional qualifications of healthcare professionals responding to a disaster or public-health emergency.

    HHS plans to develop a portal to provide access to the public and private data repositories that contain the qualifications of government medical incident officials, the department said in a request for information posted yesterday on FedBizOpps.gov.

  • USA: HHS unit provides planning application for first responders

    The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released the Emergency Preparedness Resource Inventory, a new Web-based application to help local, regional and state planners compile customized inventories of health care and emergency resources.

    The software is designed to enable planners to assess their regional supply of critical resources, prepare for incident response, estimate gaps and provide support for future investment decisions, AHRQ, which is part of the Health and Human Services Department, said this week. The resource inventory helps first responders figure out where emergency equipment and medicines are located, how much is available and whom to contact to obtain those resources.

  • USA: IG finds FEMA disaster relief databases not secured

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not adequately protecting its core databases containing sensitive disaster relief information, according to a new report from Homeland Security Department inspector general Richard L. Skinner.

    A redacted copy of the report was posted at the inspector general’s Web site today.

  • USA: In Katrina’s wake, a chance to prove health IT’s value

    Floodwaters destroyed the medical records of thousands of evacuees from New Orleans, washing away orders for cancer and diabetes treatment and medication information stored in physician offices and clinics.

    The Health and Human Services Department is trying to recreate some of that medical data electronically, in what is proving to be a test case for the government’s efforts to develop health IT systems.

  • USA: IT Helps States Brace For Storms

    Government agencies in Florida and Texas are using data to understand hurricanes and better prepare for them.

    Last year's Atlantic coast hurricane season was a record breaker, with nine named storms blasting the southeastern United States. While Charley, Ivan, Jeanne, and company tore off roofs and savaged property, federal, state, and local governments enlisted IT in a number of ways to help citizens and responders. With the 2005 hurricane season expected to be even worse--the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting as many as 11 name-worthy storms--new emergency-response technology is being put to the test. So far this year, there have been three hurricanes in the Atlantic and five named tropical storms.

  • USA: Kalifornische Schulen als Kommunikationshubs im Katastrophenfall

    Wird 2010 jeder Teenager Zugriff auf mehr Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten und bessere drahtlose Datenkommunikation haben als die Einsatzkräfte bei Feuerwehr-, Polizei und Katastropenschutz? Damit das nicht passiert hat, sich jetzt in Kalifornien unter dem Dach der Non-Profit-Organisation Wireless Communication Alliance die Iniative emergency Communications Leadership & Innovation Center (eClic) konstituiert. Ihr Ziel ist es, die an Schulen vorhandenen Netze als Hubs für die Kommunikation zwischen den Einsatzkräften zu verwenden. Dabei soll unter anderem eine Vernetzung über Wimax erprobt werden.

  • USA: Katrina-Opfer bekommen RFID-Chips implantiert

    Die US-amerikanische Katastrophen-Einsatztruppe DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) implantiert Todesopfern des Wirbelsturms Katrina RFID-Chips, damit die Leichen später besser identifiziert werden können. Die Technik stammt von dem Unternehmen VeriChip, das im vergangenen Jahr von der Aufsichtsbehörde Food and Drug Administration die Zulassung für das VeriChip Health Information Microtransponder System bekommen hatte. Das System besteht aus einem unter der Haut eingepflanzten RFID-Chip, einem Hand-Scanner sowie einer Datenbank für medizinische Daten.

  • USA: Kommunikationschaos im Krisengebiet

    Am Donnerstag trafen 10.000 Satelliten-Handys ein, bis dahin stand der Polizei von New Orleans ein einziger Funkkanal zur Verfügung, Amateurfunker halfen aus.

    Wenn nichts mehr geht, funktioniert die Kurzwelle - diese Faustregel trifft auch auf das Katastrophengebiet in New Orleans zu. Um die 250 Funkamateure vor Ort haben praktisch von Stunde Null an der Rettung Eingeschlossener mitgewirkt, Notrufe weitergeleitet und bei der Suche nach Vermissten geholfen.

  • USA: Locals pan DHS decision to ditch communications project

    The Homeland Security Department's effort to scrap a digital communications tool used to coordinate emergency response with local governments has riled a group of county-level officials.

    In a June 18 memorandum, Timothy Loewenstein, chairman of the information technology committee at the National Association of Counties, told the DHS technology chief that discontinuing or diminishing the Disaster Management program without talking to the users was unacceptable.

  • USA: Maine Offers Hurricane Relief Services

    More Than 900 Citizens Offer to House Displaced Gulf Coast Residents Through Online Sign-Up Service at www.Maine.gov

    Maine Governor John Baldacci and Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced last week the state has taken several steps to help support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. A new page on the state's official Web site (www.Maine.gov) now allows Maine residents to offer housing to displaced residents, and a temporary requirements waiver is currently in effect for vehicles transporting relief supplies to the Gulf Coast.

  • USA: MSHA: Mine Emergency Operations Database Now Available Online

    A new mine emergency operations database that lists mine rescue teams nationwide and mine emergency services and related contacts at the federal, state and local levels is available on the MSHA Web site.

    "Emergency planning is critical for all mining operations if an emergency were to occur and lives were at stake," said David Dye, acting assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health. "This database should prove to be a valuable resource for safety personnel and the public in preparing for mine emergency responses. This database ties into 12 million businesses nationwide – both mining businesses and vendors that supply goods to the industry. It also fulfills an e-government initiative to help make government more accessible to people."

  • USA: New 911 Dispatch System in Missouri Cuts Call Times

    For emergency responders, the slightest delays could be the difference between life and death. In light of that simple fact, Missouri's Polk County Emergency 911 Center recently replaced its limited computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system to improve efficiency in the field.

    After going live this summer, the center's new CAD system from Global Software Corp. gives dispatchers access to address histories, records from law enforcement agencies and lists the availability of officers and units. Perhaps the biggest upgrade is the map-based software, which traces landline calls for dispatchers and triangulates cell phone calls within three meters.

  • USA: North Carolina puts out a net for tracking diseases

    System relies on formats that were developed by CDC to transmit, track statewide data

    When Hurricane Katrina evacuees reached North Carolina last year, public health officials tracked the resulting surge in emergency room visits via a standards-driven statewide biosurveillance network.

  • USA: OPM launches Katrina Web site for feds

    The Office of Personnel Management today unveiled a Web site to centralize information for federal employees affected by the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

    The site includes links to information about federal retiree benefits, donation of leave time to federal employees affected by the disaster and Katrina disaster relief, among other topics.

  • USA: Pacific Northwest Counties Collaborated to Create Critical Infrastructure Protection Plan

    The nightmare scenario of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and its potential to cause a tsunami is one threat among many that motivate emergency managers who live and work in the Pacific Northwest to continue planning and coordinating. The region’s proximity to the danger-filled Cascadia Subduction Zone — a fault that stretches from Northern California to mid-Vancouver Island — requires never-ending vigilance.

    Because of the risk of earthquakes and other threats to critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) — terrorist attacks, industrial accidents and other natural disasters — five Portland, Ore.-area counties collaborated beginning in 2006 to assess and identify the region’s critical infrastructure. Man-made or natural threats to CIKR could significantly disrupt government and business functions, and produce cascading effects far beyond the targeted sector and incident’s physical location, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

  • USA: Pandemic plans give teleworking key role

    Agencies at last may take teleworking seriously, as the administration has made it a critical piece of its strategy to keep the government operating in the face of a pandemic.

    Few agencies have prepared to use telework effectively during an emergency, said comptroller general David Walker.

  • USA: Public health officials use CDC systems in disaster response

    Medical professionals responding to the Hurricane Katrina disaster are relying on public health IT systems devised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help orchestrate the response to the catastrophe, a federal health IT specialist said.

    “These systems certainly will be playing a role,” said John Loonsk, CDC’s associate director for informatics.

  • USA: Public health officials use CDC systems in disaster response

    Medical professionals responding to the Hurricane Katrina disaster are relying on public health IT systems devised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help orchestrate the response to the catastrophe, a federal health IT specialist said.

    “These systems certainly will be playing a role,” said John Loonsk, CDC’s associate director for informatics.

  • USA: San Francisco and Partnering Cities Launch 311 Open Source

    Mayor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday, March 3, the launch of a unified open source standard enabling any local government to connect its 311 system to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.

    The Open311 API (Application Programming Interface) project combined the efforts of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle and numerous other cities, which will all have access to the Open311 later next week.

  • USA: Shame on FEMA

    I suppose it's really just a little thing, a footnote in the context of the massive, horrific devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of people are dead or dying. Hundreds of thousands are homeless. Much of New Orleans is a toxic cesspool. Some smaller Louisiana and Mississippi towns are simply gone, wiped from the face of the earth. You have to get far, far down on the list of horrors to come to this one: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a Web site for survivors of the disaster to apply for aid, but it works only if they're using Internet Explorer 6.
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