Supply Chain Management During a Medical Surge: How Hospitals Can Work Together
A medical surge caused by a global pandemic disrupts hospital supply chains. Learn about strategies hospitals and health systems are using to manage resources.
Government Technology: Emergency Management – Georgia Medical Center Deploys New Software as Coronavirus Hits
Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia deployed the LiveProcess Emergency Manager software two weeks before the coronavirus hit the region and began managing the virus via the system immediately. The medical center’s virtual command center is a management portal that acts as a kind of “virtual bulletin board,” allowing staff to disseminate information, keep track of planning and coordination and response to situations. It keeps all staff on the same page in real time.
Free COVID-19 Response Package for Health Systems: Expedite a coordinated response
Many health systems are struggling with the onslaught of information, issues, roadblocks and more that arise during a large-scale situation like the COVID-19 pandemic.
We see how our customers are effectively sharing information, expediting response and monitoring the well-being of their staff by leveraging LiveProcess.
That’s why LiveProcess is offering a no-charge, no-strings-attached COVID-19 Response Package for eligible U.S. health systems.
The package provides a virtual situation center for the coordination and management of your health system’s response to COVID-19 as it affects your organization, your staff and your community.
6 Ways to Build Muscle Memory for Emergency Management in Healthcare
From Gartner’s February 2018 Market Guide for Crisis/Emergency Management Platforms (C/EMP), I identified six takeaways that I feel are especially meaningful for healthcare organizations. Specifically, here’s what I recommend you do to help ensure your staff is ready and able to use your emergency management platform in a crisis.
Emergency Management: Keep Cool in Critical Situations
Real-time emergency management requires real-time mobile communication and collaboration solutions. Make it easier to prepare for and respond to disruptions, emergencies and disasters with a proven system for all phases of emergency management, purpose-built for healthcare. See how LiveProcess can help you improve healthcare emergency management at every level of your organization, including health systems, hospitals, long-term care facilities, and public agencies and regional coalitions.
CMS Home Health Emergency Preparedness
Learn about the specific requirements and exceptions for home health emergency preparedness. Home health agencies are expected to be compliant with the CMS emergency preparedness rule. As home health care agencies address these specific challenges in emergency preparedness planning, it will help to remember that the following three Cs are the drivers behind the CMS requirements: communication, continuity, and collaboration.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule Takes Effect — Are You Ready?
Now is a good time for healthcare organizations to re-assess compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) emergency preparedness final rule. Learn about the four core elements for healthcare emergency preparedness and the focus on continuity of continuity of operations and community collaboration.
Track Your Emergency Management Response and Automatically Document to Demonstrate Compliance
Learn how your hospital can manage and track emergency response in real-time, across organizations, in real-time with Liveprocess Emergency Manager. Automatically generate after action reports. Track tasks that result in improved compliance levels. Assess your compliance with NIMS and Joint Commission guidelines. Store all documentation and reports in a trusted central source.
Coordinate Your Emergency Management Response Across Your Hospital, Health System and Community
Real-time emergency response requires mobile coordination across boundaries. Get everyone the information they need quickly and efficiently with a cloud-based virtual hospital command center for emergency management and mobile response with LiveProcess Emergency Manager.
Hospital Mass Notification System with Two-Way Response for Coordination
Learn about a hospital mass notification, pager replacement and emergency management solution for individual and group notification, mobilization, and two-way coordination. Achieve targeted and mass notification with LiveProcess Emergency Manager, a complete emergency management platform.
Hospital Emergency Management Planning Tools
Learn about the emergency management planning tools and templates for hospitals and nursing facilities in LiveProcess Emergency Manager: hazard vulnerability assessment, HICS-based incident command, job action sheets, online repository for disaster response resources, master scenario lists (MSELs) and more.
CMS Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Coalitions
Learn about how regional coalitions help healthcare facilities comply with CMS emergency preparedness regulations and improve situational awareness. Disasters that cross regional boundaries were a primary driver for updates to the CMS emergency preparedness rule. As part of its initial statement of purpose, widespread natural and manmade disasters — ranging from hurricanes and flooding to flu pandemics and terrorist attacks — challenge the ability of communities to maintain continuity of healthcare services.
CMS Emergency Preparedness: Training & Testing
Emergency preparedness training and testing of your emergency plans is a crucial part of the CMS emergency preparedness rule. Emergency management plans that seem great on paper can fall apart in practice. Drills and exercises prepare your staff for a disaster and give your organization’s leadership the opportunity to find problems in a low-stakes setting. Learn about CMS’s requirements in this post.
LiveProcess Emergency Manager for Emergency Preparedness Planning, Mass Notification, Real-Time Coordination and Tracking
See how LiveProcess can help you take your emergency management program to the next level. Hospitals and health systems, ambulatory centers, home health agencies, nursing homes, and public agencies use LiveProcess Emergency Manager to prepare for and respond to disaster events and for everyday coordination. Learn about this proven system for emergency preparedness planning, mass mobilization, real-time coordination and tracking.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule: Communication Plan, Collaboration & Continuity
Learn about the four vital pieces in the communication plan required for CMS emergency preparedness rule compliance. Ensuring continuity of healthcare services in a disaster and having a common framework for collaborative emergency response require hospitals and other healthcare facilities to have an emergency communication plan. Of all the elements of the CMS emergency preparedness rule, the communication plan may be the most important – and the most difficult.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Planning Self-Assessment Results | Infographic
We asked website visitors to rate their healthcare organization’s readiness in 10 key areas of emergency preparedness planning. View this emergency management infographic to see how they responded.
Report: Hospital Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Resilience and Collaboration
US hospitals lack collaborative competency and disaster resilience for large-scale emergency preparedness, says a two-year hospital emergency preparedness analysis by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Read this blog post to learn about collaboration and the Framework for Healthcare Disaster Resilience.
True Stories from Hurricane Harvey: Hospital Emergency Management for Severe Weather
This composite account reflects actual events in hospitals affected by Hurricane Harvey, and the measures they took to ensure safety and appropriate care.
Emergency Management Agency Prepares Healthcare Coalition for Regional Collaboration: County of Riverside EMD
In this case study, learn how LiveProcess streamlines communication for an emergency management agency and dozens of healthcare facilities across a sizeable county.
LiveProcess Emergency Manager for Healthcare Coalitions: Coordinate, collaborate and communicate across organizations during crisis events and disasters
LiveProcess Emergency Manager for Healthcare Coalitions Coordinate, collaborate and communicate across organizations during regional drills, emergencies and disasters Disasters don’t respect regional boundaries. Achieving situational awareness and coordinating an...
Planning for Collaboration: CMS Emergency Preparedness
Plan ahead for collaboration with other organizations during disaster response. When CMS drafted its emergency preparedness regulations, it sought to address a “patchwork of federal, state, and local laws and guidelines.” The CMS emergency preparedness rule helps put all healthcare facilities on the same page to more easily coordinate communication, resources, shelter and services.
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Agencies Connect on the Fly for Metro Drill: Indiana District 1
Public Health Emergency Preparedness District Replaces Emergency Management System During Drill Indiana District 1 instantly integrates with state department of health using LiveProcess when previous EM system fails When Indiana Health District 1 emergency management...