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Pandemic Readiness and DMS: Swine Flu 2009
DMS has released a POD and Pandemic File for our current customers.
Any customers needing immediate assistance should call 860-287-7221 or 860-287-7223 or 203-676-4182.
This software tracks distribution of your SNS inventory of Tamiflu and Relenza.
It also will track your POD patients, as well as any current suspected cases of Swine Flu as well as confirmed cases.
For those customers wishing to track and report in excel format, this ability exists within the server version of FirstTrak and can be activated by customer service.
Thank you.
DMS
Tags: Disaster Management Solutions, DMS, Inventory, kirchberg-schmitt, mass casualty, MCI, pandemic preparedness, POD, Relenza, service, swine flu, Tamiflu
Golden Guardian 2008 and the Great Shakeout
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FirstTrak Patient Tracking System Tested During Great Shakeout
Torrance, CA - November 20, 2008 – Disaster Management Solutions
(DMS) achieved continued success working with four separate public safety
agencies and numerous hospitals simultaneously during the largest disaster
exercise of its kind in California last week. The Great Shakeout simulated a 7.8
earthquake and saw over 5 million participants across the state. Of
those that participated, the DMS First Trak Patient Tracking System
successfully tracked well over 500? (need actual number or ballpark
here) individuals (need the from where to where here).
“We are very pleased with the feedback we heard from our customers
during the exercise. Four separate public safety agencies of considerable
size in Southern California utilized the system and the response was
very positive,” said DMS President Jay O’Donnell. Riverside County,
Kaiser Bellflower, the Los Angeles County Coroner and the Los Angeles Fire
Department all utilized the FirstTrak system as part of the
exercise. DMS staff were on-hand at the Mission Hills school that the Governor
personally attended and spoke at and were excited to be able to showcase the system
to him.
“Being a local company, we have an added interest in disaster
preparedness in Southern Cal and we are delighted to have quite a
footprint established in the area and to be able to make a
difference,” commented O’Donnell.
Located in Southern California, Disaster Management Solutions and
their First Trak Suite enables multiple uses for multiple purposes
and applications. First Trak has been utilized by hospitals, EMS
agencies, fire departments, public health agencies, the National
Guard and the Red Cross. Disaster Management Solutions has over 25
regional engagements across the country covering over 400 individual
entities.
Tags: California, drill, earthquake, EMS, First Responder, FirstTrak, kirchberg-schmitt, LA City Fire Department, Linked In, O'Donnell, Paramedic, Patient Tracking, preparedness
Memphis Training
Memphis and Shelby County used the First Trak system during Gustav to track the evacuees they recieved from New Orleans. The system worked well and was easy to train the First Responders on in less than 10 minutes. This week, the Shelby Co. MMRS group was able to train a new group of trainers within their response system from many different agencies. The Memphis Fire Department sent a large continigent of Battalion Chiefs and Trainers as well as Paramedics, The Red Cross was very well represented, and numerous local hospitals and EMS agencies. Germantown Fire Department and Bartlett Fire/EMS were represented. I was honored to meet staff from Tenet Healthcare’s St. Francis- Bartlett, Methodist, The Med, LeBonheur, the Memphis VA, and Delta Medical Center.
ProMed sent representatives from Knox County (Eastern Tennessee also has the system) as well as their Memphis operation. Also represented were Emmact, Abundant Care, and the Memphis/Shelby County EMA. The Office of Preparedness sent representives as did the Tennessee Department of Health-Division of EMS.
This is exactly the kind of multi-agency trining that is need to ensure a seamless integration of an EPTS in a community or region. No longer do you need a subject matter expert in the MAC or in your EOC to know how the tracking system works! When all levels of response are trained, as well as all agencies, the system can be expanded and utilized to it’s fullest capacity.
I work with a lot of communities, and I can say without a doubt that Memphis and Shelby County have certainly risen to the occasion with this training. I was proud to be a part of their learning process. This group proves to me that when people are motivated by one common goal and unified in their efforts towards reaching that goal, anything can be accomplished and agency lines can disappear, leaving one whole that is by far greater than the sum of it’s parts.
Tags: EMS, kirchberg-schmitt, LinkedIn, Memphis, mmrs, Paramedic, patient tracking system, ProMed
Peter Canning
I have been reading Peter Canning’s books and blog for years, and I always enjoy his perspectives on this job we do.
http://medicscribe.blogspot.com/
He wrote several excellent blogs after he was deployed to Gulfport, Mississippi in 2005- I will attempt to link to them here on their own page.
Tags: Disaster Response, DMS, EMS, hurricane, Katrina, Paramedic, Peter Canning
Why on Earth is Patient Tracking Important, you ask?
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Because for every injured person, there is someone who cares. A family, a friend, a coworker, a parent, an aunt, a daughter, a Pastor, a teacher, a neighbor, a spouse.
After attending NIMS ICS 100-400 this spring, I found myself wondering why there was no Patient Tracking Officer in the fancy Organizational chart they had…
It occured to me also that the number one person that is asking me for information usually is not the IC, but the PIO, otherwise known as the Public Information Officer. Oh, once in a while an IC will want to know the details of the reds, yellows, and greens. But at the heart of the matter is the patients themselves, and their family members, who seem to show up far quicker than they could have during regular times. And as these families clamor around, seeking answers, will you be able to provide them?
I found some videos today while I was preparing a new training program I am writing that I thought I should share, I will post them here.
Tags: Ambulance, Communications, disaster, Disaster Management Solutions, Disaster Response Team, DMS, Drills, evacuation, evacuees, Gustav, Hannah, hurricane, Ike, Incident Communication Solutions, LaserBand, Louisiana, Memphis, New Orleans, Packing, Paramedic, patient, Planning, readiness, response, Team, Tennessee
Kim’s Blog- Memphis August 31
Still not too much sleep. It’s about 4am and I am on the side of I-55 somewhere. I am not sure if it is Tennessee yet or not, but I am pretty sure it is not still Louisiana. After yesterday, I am glad to be out of the city, headed someplace safe and still I am unsure of how long I will be gone from my family. I am headed to Memphis to track Gustav’s evacuees for our Memphis Area group, and by the sounds of it, I won’t be looking forward to sleep anytime soon. I don’t really mind, though, all Disaster Response people like to pretend we hate the no sleeping, no eating, up for days, high stress, helping lots of people with minimal resources things, but the truth is, most of us love the challenge.
The next round of people should be arriving today, hopefully after I get a chance to eat and maybe shower…
Tags: Ambulance, Communications, disaster, Disaster Response Team, DMS, evacuation, evacuees, Gustav, Hannah, hurricane, Ike, Louisiana, mass casualty incident, Memphis, New Orleans, Packing, Paramedic, patient, Planning, readiness, response, Team, Tennessee
Evan’s Blog August 28th
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The call came a little while ago. It’s official. We have a team headed to New Orleans to supervise the Patient Tracking System used by the LSU Medical Center System contractor for Patient Evacuations. A satellite lent by Incident Communications Solutions  (ICS) out of Annapolis, MD will be picked up in the morning by our Director of Ops.Â
Tags: Ambulance, Communications, Death, disaster, Disaster Response Team, DMS, Drills, evacuation, evacuees, Gustav, Hannah, hurricane, Ike, Louisiana, Memphis, New Orleans, Packing, Paramedic, patient, Planning, readiness, response, Team, Tennessee
Evan’s Blog August 27th
August 27, 2008
In anticipation of Hurricane Gustav, today was spent checking configurations for all of our East Texas Hospitals, our Louisiana and Mississippi Clients, and double checking configurations on handhelds (portables) as well as the access points needed for them to talk wirelessly to the site servers.
Also spent part of the day helping to pack the DMS Disaster Team Truck and ordering supplies that would be needed in New Orleans for Saturday morning, should the call come.
500 STATBANDS by LASERBAND arrived today, these should be part of everyone’s MCI toolkit.
Tags: Ambulance, Communications, Death, disaster, Disaster Response Team, DMS, Drills, evacuation, evacuees, Gustav, Hannah, hurricane, Ike, Louisiana, Memphis, New Orleans, Packing, Paramedic, patient, Planning, readiness, response, Team, Tennessee
Disaster Response Teams Dispatched from DMS during Hurricane Gustav
On August 27th, 2008, multiple members of the Disaster Management Solutions Disaster Response Teams readied themselves for lengthy deployments to the Gulf Coast. On August 29th, the first member was dispatched to New Orleans Louisiana to assist with evacuation tracking for patients in the region.
On August 29th, two more teams were deployed to several other regions to assist in evacuee tracking efforts as part of the largest evacuation of Louisiana in history.
Their experiences will be chronicled here in the Disaster Response Team Blog.
Tags: , Ambulance, Communications, Death, disaster, Disaster Response Team, DMS, Drills, evacuation, evacuees, Gustav, Hannah, hurricane, Ike, Louisiana, Memphis, New Orleans, Paramedic, patient, response, Team, Tennessee
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
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The National Incident Management System provides a systematic, proactive approach guiding departments and agencies at all levels of government, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work seamlessly to prepare for, prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, in order to reduce the loss of life, property, and harm to the environment. Read more about the National Incident Management System Here.
Disaster Management Solutions Patient Tracking systems are designed in compliance iwht NIMS and other federal standards and guidelines.
Sponsored by Disaster Management Solutions, a company committed to helping First Responders 'Do More' for Mass Casualty Incident Response.
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