Changes to Emergency Management Guidelines, Standards and Regulations have become difficult to track, let alone manage.  Hospitals are already overburdened with the need to maintain current compliance requirements; the updates will be nearly impossible to support.

LiveProcess will soon introduce a new Compliance Suite that tracks and helps complete the 2008 Joint Commission Emergency Management Standards.  Recent national disasters have highlighted the need for such improved and well-coordinated healthcare emergency response capabilities during adverse events. 

The new LiveProcess Compliance Suite will help meet that challenge. It includes specific sections that enable healthcare facilities to easily attach all relevant documents to the Standards, perform a self-assessment of potential Survey scores, capture all critical information required for an Emergency Management Tracer among each critical hazard identified in the hospital HVA. 

We hope these additional tools will help healthcare professionals easily navigate through the new requirements and improve overall response capabilities.  We strongly believe that a sound community response network, combined with individual preparedness activities, will improve our national ability to meet the challenges of any hazard.