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Floods Render NYC Hospitals Powerless
November 2, 2012 3:48 pm | by DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press | News | Comments
There are few places in the U.S. where hospitals have put as much thought and money into disaster planning as New York. And yet two of the city's busiest, most important medical centers failed a fundamental test of readiness during Superstorm Sandy this week: They lost power. Their backup generators failed, or proved inadequate. Nearly 1,000 patients had to be evacuated.
Swine Flu Found In Elephant Seals Off California
May 20, 2013 11:27 am | News | CommentsResearchers have detected swine flu in elephant seals off the Central California coast, saying it was the first time a human pandemic strain has been found in marine mammals. The researchers raised the possibility that seabirds may have passed on the virus.
Mutare Vital Link™ Smart Notification Platform Tackles $8 Billion Healthcare Communication Problem
May 20, 2013 10:44 am | News | CommentsMutare has announced the General Availability of Vital Link 2.0, the game-changing smart notification system that supports 2-way secure communication, mass/group notification and patient engagement messaging in a single closed loop platform.
Three Suspected Cases Of SARS-Related Virus In France
May 10, 2013 1:26 pm | by GREG KELLER,Associated Press | News | CommentsFrench health officials said Friday they are investigating three suspected cases of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, in people who had close contact in the hospital with France's only confirmed case. A nurse at the hospital where the man was hospitalized in late April has herself been under watch at the hospital in Douai since Thursday night.
Canada Not Planning H7N9 Vaccine Studies; Will Watch U.S. Result
May 10, 2013 10:51 am | by Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | News | CommentsCanada currently has no plans to ask its pandemic flu vaccine manufacturers to make trial batches of vaccine to protect against the new H7N9 bird flu, senior officials of the Public Health Agency of Canada have revealed. While the U.S. government has said it will ask several flu vaccine manufacturers to start growing up batches of serum against the new virus this summer, Canada will watch, wait and learn from the work the U.S.
How Chinese Bird Flu Infects Humans Is Still A Mystery
April 19, 2013 3:36 pm | by GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press | News | CommentsAlmost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the virus seemingly isn't passing from person to person.
Flu Outbreak Felt In Ky. Hospitals, Workplaces
January 15, 2013 10:39 am | by BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe statewide flu outbreak has become bad enough to prompt a central Kentucky hospital complex to place temporary restrictions on visiting patients, while health care workers brace for the coming weeks when influenza usually hits its peak.
The Effects Of 9/11 & Katrina On Hospital Preparedness
August 28, 2012 5:29 pm | by Catherine Hartwell, Disaster Responder, American Red Cross | Articles | CommentsBefore 9/11 hospitals lacked structured disaster plans and were inadequately prepared to properly respond to large-scale events. They were unable to both handle the surge of patients after a mass casualty event and continue operations after losing powe. In 2005, the catastrophic events of Hurricane Katrina exposed hospital’s insufficient preparations for coordinating with outside agencies.
Business Continuity Returns To New York On October 29-30, 2012
June 4, 2012 4:51 pm | by Luke Simpson, Editor | News | CommentsContinuity Insights New York is the long-awaited return of a dedicated business continuity event to the Northeast. Commissioner Jerome Hauer from the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Commissioner Joseph Bruno from the New York City Office of Emergency Management will open the event with a plenary session on The State of Preparedness.
Downtime Protection & Business Continuance Solution To Be Installed At 15 Hospital Sites
May 29, 2012 2:13 pm | News | CommentsBy enabling 24/7 access to critical patient information, NetSafe ensures that CHE hospitals maintain uninterrupted patient care during a system or network downtime.
Lessons from a Regional Health Authority’s Pandemic Influenza Exercises
April 27, 2009 8:00 pm | by Margaretha Lundh | Articles | CommentsThis presentation will walk audience members through two successful large-scale pandemic influenza exercises conducted by Fraser Health, one of Canada’s largest health care organizations, in 2006 and 2007. The session will focus on the lessons l...
Holistic Healthcare Continuity
April 26, 2009 8:00 pm | by James L. Paturas | Articles | CommentsThere are several centers of activity within most healthcare organization that are tasked with ensuring, at least partially, the resiliency of the organization: risk management, facilities, security, information technology, and business continui...
BCP and DR Planning for Healthcare Organizations
May 4, 2008 8:00 pm | by Kathy Lee Patterson | Articles | CommentsHospital administrators and clinicians have started to realize that technology is far more crucial in rendering patient care than ever before. Routine clinical functions are almost entirely performed by computer technology. Daily procedures can ...
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: BCP Lives Here
December 31, 2007 7:00 pm | by Buffy Rojas Editor-in-Chief | Articles | CommentsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia or CHOP as it is commonly known is a truly outstanding institution. In 2007, for the fifth consecutive year, U.S.News & World Report ranked CHOP the best hospital for children in the United States. Child magazine bestowed a similar honor. The oldest U.S. hospital dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, CHOP is an undisputed world leader in the advancement of healthcare for children. Here's just a smidgen of what the people at CHOP do: "Physician-researchers draw on the latest available information about the human genome to customize therapies to variations in genetic makeup.
A Tabletop Exercise Becomes Reality:
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Kevin Chenowith | Articles | CommentsOn June 28, 2006, The Vanderbilt University Medical Center disaster recovery team conducted a tabletop exercise to address a number of known issues using a scenario based on a real event that happened at another hospital. Three weeks following t...
Advancing Your Business Continuity Program
April 23, 2007 8:00 pm | by Kathy Lee Patterson | Articles | CommentsAs healthcare organizations become more and more interested in business continuity and disaster recovery, funding is starting trickle through IT for BC and DR programs. The future is looking brighter. Since business continuity within a hospital ...
The Business Continuity Program Puzzle
June 30, 2006 8:00 pm | by Kathy Lee Patterson, Ken Frantz, and John Kelly | Articles | CommentsSenior executives want the best for the organization; theywant to understand the technology underpinning itssuccess. They understand you know your business, butthey often don't quite understand how what you do fits into the organization's global view. DR/BC professionals tend to work too deep in the trenches to sufficiently bridge the gap between redundancy and fiscal responsibility.
DR Planning at Healthcare Organizations: Internal vs. External Solutions
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Kevin Chenowith | Articles | CommentsThis session will provide a comparison of internal and external IT disaster recovery solutions and how they might fit into the overall business continuity strategy. The factors involved in deciding whether to develop internal solutions for recov...
BCP for Healthcare Organizations:
May 7, 2006 8:00 pm | by Kathy Lee Patterson | Articles | CommentsYou have been asked to take over the BCP/DR program at a healthcare provider. You are experienced, but possibly not in the clinical environment. Where do you start? If there is an existing BCP/DR program and plan, how should you begin to evaluat...
Proven Strategies for Overcoming BCP Challenges in Healthcare Organizations
May 17, 2005 8:00 pm | Articles | CommentsMost healthcare organizations have initiated BCP programs, but often they fall short of where they need to be. This presentation will enable the attendees to fine-tune their existing programs by leveraging practical methodologies and best pract...
The Healthcare/AMC DRP-BCP Consortium:
May 15, 2005 8:00 pm | Articles | CommentsThe walls of emergency planning for hospitals are beginning to expand and in some cases must be torn down and rebuilt. The challenges of current and future disaster recovery (DRP) and Business Continuity (BCP) planning, particularly for academi...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and BCP: The Cure for Disruption
April 30, 2005 8:00 pm | by Angela Devlen | Articles | CommentsWhen your business is providing patient care, business continuity takes on a whole new meaning. Power outages, hurricanes, and network outages are only a few of the incidents recently affecting healthcare institutions around the country. For Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, improving the ability to deliver care to patients during such an incident is a priority.
The Business Continuity Planning Iniatives at Johns Hopkins Health System
April 30, 2005 8:00 pm | by Gai Cole and Amina Barnes | Articles | CommentsIN 2001 THE JOHNS HOPKINS HEALTH SYSTEM(JHHS; Baltimore, MD), began an earnest examination of its ability to recover patient care and business processes when operations have been disrupted unexpectedly. By the end of 2002, pilot continuity plans were developed for the payroll, patient financial services, and hospital IT departments.
