In December of 2003, President Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8, which established policies for preventing and responding to terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other large-scale emergencies. In this Directive, the use of the term “first responder” was defined as:
“Those individuals who in the early stages of an incident are responsible for the protection and preservation of life, property, evidence and the environment, including emergency response providers as defined in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 as well as emergency management, public health, clinical care, public works, and other skilled support personnel (such as equipment operators) that provide immediate support services during prevention, response, and recovery operations.”
Since then, healthcare has become a critical partner with community, state and federal organizations in training, exercises, planning, and response procedures. However, healthcare leadership has always understood there are many things that make their industry unique—from the many types of personnel that serve in healthcare, to the public/private nature of the industry, to many hospitals so large that they are called “cities under a roof."
In addition, given the recent formalization of healthcare’s role in emergency management and its uniqueness as an industry, an unprecedented and increasing number of standards and regulatory requirements have been introduced to improve healthcare capabilities and community collaboration activities. Subsequently, emergency managers are spending more time meeting these new requirements, working with community partners and monitoring the constantly changing standards and regulatory compliance requirements from The Joint Commission, National Incident Management System (NIMS), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA,) Emergency Preparedness and Response for Health Care (EPRHC), National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) and other accreditation and regulatory agencies.
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How LiveProcess Does It: The burden of keeping up with the shifting compliance landscape is significant for emergency management professionals. Annual changes to NIMS and Joint Commission standards have complicated the process of ensuring a facility is compliant.
Ensure facility compliance. To help emergency professionals address these new requirements, the LiveProcess platform includes a comprehensive compliance functionality that helps users to complete a thorough self-assessment aimed at determining their compliance with established standards. As an added benefit, LiveProcess keeps these standards up-to-date, providing visibility to users as compliance objectives are modified.
Identify compliance challenges. A task management component helps users to identify specific challenges and tasks that need to be addressed by their staff to become fully compliant.
Effectively report on compliance efforts. A thorough reporting function with optional automatic scheduling helps emergency management professionals to keep their executive management and Emergency Operations Committee personnel up-to-date on their compliance efforts. |
LiveProcess helps emergency management professionals and healthcare organizations document and automate compliance and reporting with a suite of resources and tools—all in one single point of access.
Other Compliance and Reporting Tools Include:
- Standards-based language and terminology
- Policy management and reference library
- Scheduled and ad-hoc reports
- After action reports
- Emergency Management best practices
- Preparedness Index
More LiveProcess Platform Features:
Platform Overview
Incident Management
Exercises and Drills
Daily Program Management
Availability and Security
Software as a Service (SaaS) Model
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are responsible for all phases of incident management, exercises and drills, compliance and reporting and daily program management for their facility.
are accountable for all facility operations, including risk management oversight and ensuring they are in compliance with Joint Commission and other standards.
are charged with planning, conducting and maintaining regional emergency readiness, response and recovery plans, ensuring integration with overall county and state plans.
oversee their facility's critical information infrastructure, including data integrity and security and internal/external communications.
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