Continual Preparedness System (CPS) for Public Health and Medical

The Challenge: Preparing for the worst amid acute uncertainty.


During normal operating environments, public health and medical providers are functioning at razor thin margins and virtually no excess capacity.


Increase in surge by a significant natural event or terror attack will rapidly overwhelm this overtaxed system, threatening loss or life or substandard care.


Preparing to treat the seriously injured, reassuring the worried well, and dealing with unavoidable fatalities cannot be deferred until the danger is imminent. The time to prepare is now.


But how do you perform the ongoing preparedness planning, training, and exercise activities, meet the evermore strict certification requirements, while at the same time keeping up with your ongoing daily operations?


Continual Preparedness System (CPS)

The Solution: Previstar™ CPS for Public Health and Medical


CPS helps coordinate medical, public health, and volunteer assets to prepare for and deal with the aftermath of an incident while continuing to provide routine health services.


Previstar's combination of software, services, and experience support public health missions including volunteer coordination, Surge capacity management, Mass care and sheltering and epidemiology. All based on the National Incident Command System (NIMS) and Hospital Incident Control System (HICS) guidelines.


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Enhance Planning

  • Implement daily preparedness activities on a web based platform that facilitates collaboration, information sharing, and eliminates the proverbial the "planning silos"
  • Enable multi-agency coordination
  • Use step-by-step planning wizard to automate static paper plans into dynamic response tools that can be tracked and managed during a response
  • Validate plans with a comprehensive exercise module
  • Create digital data repository of critical information
  • Seamlessly incorporate NIMS and ICS processes and procedures

Enhance Response

  • Connect all stakeholders
  • Enable multi-agency coordination
  • Manage incident related information and create a common operating pictures
  • Communicate in real time with live chat and messaging
  • Utilize the ICS Incident Action plan
  • Assign and track tasks and missions
  • Manage resources requests, shortfalls, deployments, and costs
  • Forecast daily resource requirements with scenario based modeling
  • View critical infrastructure, site plans, personnel, incident locations, and facilities geographically on GIS maps
  • View regional and statewide resource inventory on GIS maps
  • Monitor on demand status reporting

Enhance Recovery and Reimbursement

  • On demand reporting including automatic generation of cost reimbursement reports

CEMPlanner™ for Public Health and Medical

The Challenge: Emerging diseases, terrorism, and chemical hazards are all threats to our public health and health care systems. Planning for pandemic outbreaks like H1N1 2009, Avian flu, or SARS is an ever-evolving challenge.


As we have seen in today's world, dangerous health threats develop and travel around the globe in weeks - if not days. To stay ahead of these challenges, planning must be dynamic and must include input from all stakeholders in all geographic locations.


Developing a plan is an intensive and continuous process. A good Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) can take over a year to develop. Emergency management agencies must overcome numerous challenges to plan effectively: Staffing and resource limitations, scheduling stakeholders and achieving their "buy in", availability of good plan writers. Additionally, planning standards are numerous and are imposed by multiple organizations and in multiple documents. For a local emergency manager, just keeping up with the various mandates is a formidable task, even without looking at best practices. As a result, plans often become simple compliance documents, satisfying regulated requirements but often just sit on a bookshelf and fail to become operational or implemented during live incidents.


Additionally, a true Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) is not just an EOP, there are actually multiple plans ,such a COOP, COG, Hazard Mitigation, required by communities including nine different types of plans required for compliance standards like the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP).


It's no wonder costly consulting firms are contracted to help write the plans and help facilitate the planning process.


CEMPlanner

The Solution: CEMPlanner™


CEMPlanner delivers health officials a secure, flexible on-line planning tool that provides step-by-step guidance to create emergency plans.


Pandemic Outbreaks, SNS, Terrorist Threats: CEMPlanner enables planners to create and modify their plans, collaborate within their organization or with experts around the world, review, approve and publish their revised plans in a matter of hours. Whether you have a single planner or an entire team, CEMPlanner's out-of-the-box capabilities will immediately support your planning needs.


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  • Simplify scheduling
  • Conduct "virtual" planning meetings
  • Provide planning guidance for all stakeholders
  • Create standards based plans that can be submitted for approval and activated during response with any incident management system

Long-Term Care (LTC) for Public Health and Medical

The Challenge: Managing emergency events and ensuring safe transport of residents during times of crisis.


Evacuations and sheltering-in-place for long term care facilities (LTC) are complex logistical operations. Planning and response requires coordination and partnerships between the private and public sector as each have interdependent roles during the event. Approaching the myriad of preparedness activities in a meaningful and systematic way is challenging because long term care communities and public health organizations are not typically equipped with the tools that enable effective collaboration, data collection and organization, and provide a standardized and repeatable approach to preparedness.


Long-Term Care (LTC)

The Solution: Long-Term Care (LTC)


Previstar LTC is a web based "nursing home-centric control center" that increases LTC facility emergency preparedness and provides decision support to agencies - such as State Public Health and Emergency Management Agencies - that assist LTC communities during disruptive events.


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  • Optimized response with proactive, on-demand decision support
  • Streamlined state regulatory review of LTC facility emergency operations plans
  • Increased state wide nursing home preparedness