Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare - Planning and LiveProcess

The Challenge

Identifying key threats and hazards to a hospital is critical for planning and mitigation activities. However, assigning numeric values and prioritizing threats can be difficult. Including or removing threats from a pre-existing table can also require additional recalculation and evaluation skills.

Another challenge is developing standardized plans and policies that are accessible to all hospital staff from anywhere at any time. Even more difficult is ensuring document version control so that the most updated revision is always available.

Pre-assignment and training of personnel who would have a role during a hospital emergency is also a challenge. Job Action Sheets, Incident Checklists and pre-assigned positions help facilitate a more rapid and effective response.

Finally, training and competency measurement is an effective way to determine response capability. The ability to prepare event-specific drills and repeat them following any training activities helps assess potential improvements. Another training and competency measurement valuable benchmark is the ability to measure competency following training programs or the introduction of new policies using an integrated quiz tool.

The LiveProcess Solution

LiveProcess HVA

LiveProcess Plans

LiveProcess ICS

LiveProcess Exercise Engine

LiveProcess uses an interactive Hazard and Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) tool that can be completed and revised electronically from any location. This covenience allows for easy updates following training efforts or drills. In addition, new hazards can be easily added to the HVA. You can generate a new risk score by responding to a short series of inquiries that automatically generate overall risk values.

LiveProcess provides each hospital with a large storage library which can be accessed by any staff at any time. This simplifies access to new or updated plans from any Internet browser and immediately enables appropriate direction for meeting any hospital issue. Hospitals may also share all or portions of their libraries with outside organizations. This facilitates cooperative planning and collaborative preparedness and response efforts.

Hospitals may pre-assign roles to the Incident Management Team for each hazard. This can be helpful when considering appropriate responders for events ranging from hazardous materials spills to public health emergencies. An “All Hazards” team may also be created to support any incident type. Tools are all available electronically that equip responders with the resources they need to do their tasks effectively and track resources and assisgnments.

A quiz tool allows the import of photos, images and documents. Combined with an automatic Drill Engine, hospitals can have confidence in implanting exercises and measuring competencies of all staff. Additionally, LiveProcess enhances your training and preparedness programs with a fast and easy exercise creation feature. Need to test your facility's readiness for a hurricane, earthquake or other disaster? Simply start a new exercise, select victim cards from the victim database, build a master sequence of events list, and you're ready to test your team. You can even create your own custom victim profiles and share them with emergency planners at other facilities.

LiveProcess in Action

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