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- the Networked Emergency Management System enables emergency managers to share emergency plans and their component parts, best practices, and training materials in a standardized format for the first time.
- This content is Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS), National Incident Management System (NIMS) and JCAHO compliant and can be readily customized to one's unique facility.
- the present invention transforms a traditional emergency management plan from a lengthy and convoluted set of text documents in a three-ring binder into an immediately accessible live process.
- Existing emergency management software includes at least the following offerings:
- Incident Management software designed for security professionals to document and track incidents or investigations in an emergency in order to recover the most money from federal reimbursement agencies or private insurers. (Example: IRIMS® software available from PPM 2000 Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, WorldWideWeb.ppm2000.com).
- the present invention is distinct from each of these in that it is a platform focused on healthcare, and it is a solution focused primarily on preparedness and mitigation rather than response or recovery.
- the present invention is described in the context of a preferred embodiment of a web-based software application commercialized as LiveProcessTM (WorldWideWeb.liveprocess.com), which is a platform for integrated emergency management.
- LiveProcess is a service of LiveProcess Corporation, Chatham, N.J.
- the present invention is described in the context of a plurality of distributed computers, all of which are linked together by an electronic network, such as the Internet.
- the computers may be any type of computing device that allows a user to interact with a web site via a web browser.
- the computers may be personal computers (PC) that run a Microsoft Windows® operating system.
- the computers may also be handheld, wireless devices.
- the foundation of the present invention lies in the implementation of a standard organization of the emergency management plan format.
- This format first divides an emergency plan into five areas; a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis ( 62 ), emergency policies ( 63 ), procedures that must be followed ( 64 ), emergency resources that are available to the emergency planner ( 65 ) and an Incident Command System command structure, and second, provides a system in which this organization may be utilized. These areas of the emergency plan are common to all emergency plans for all facilities.
- Organizing the high level structure in this manner allows the present invention to operate on emergency management plans, allows interoperability of emergency plan components, allows flexibility to accommodate the differences of facilities, and allows the users of emergency management plans to coordinate their efforts in the four areas of emergency management: Mitigation, Planning, Response and Recovery.
- the present invention allows emergency planners representing a facility ( FIG. 1 ), or networks of facilities ( FIG. 5 ), to interchange elements of their emergency plans ( FIG. 3 ), for example policies, procedures or training modules, instantly. Furthermore, it allows entities without fixed facilities, for example the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to publish ( FIG. 6 ), and route ( FIG. 8 ), emergency procedures, guidelines or training modules and have those procedures, guidelines or training modules instantly implemented at facilities on the network.
- CDC Centers for Disease Control
- FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic representation of FIG. 1 :
- the emergency planner ( 2 ) is the person or persons whose primary responsibility is creating, updating and maintaining the emergency plan for the facility or network of facilities. This person has full access to his or her facilities emergency plans, procedures, resources and training data. Secondary in permissions to the emergency planner is the emergency planning committee ( 3 ). This is a person or group of persons whose responsibility is to participate in the planning of the facility through review and commentary on the emergency plan. Emergency planning committee members may be blocked from seeing the entire plan, they only need to see what they need to facilitate emergency planning—the particular policies, procedures, resources etc that they have been asked to comment on. The third level of permission is the Incident Command System (ICS) role ( 4 ).
- ICS Incident Command System
- Each role in a facilities ICS organizational chart may view the plan, especially his or her part in the plan, but will not have permission to change, edit, or add to the plan.
- the next level of permission is that of the facility employee ( 5 ). This person does not have a specific role in the ICS, but still must know, and be familiar with, general emergency plan policies of the facility. This person only has access to the non-ICS portions of the plan that pertain to employees or residents of a particular facility.
- the final level of permission is that of the general public who have a need for access to a facilities emergency plan ( 6 ). This level of permission is read-only and is limited to information designated as for public use. All of these levels of permission taken together constitute a facilities planning and training permissions levels ( 1 ).
- FIG. 2
- the emergency plan will be accessed using the permissions shown in FIG. 2 . Every emergency response is judged as to its severity, if the emergency warrants the Incident Command System will be activated. The top level of permissions in the Incident Command System are given to the Incident Commander ( 8 ). This allows him or her to change the status of the emergency response, direct the facilities response to the given emergency, and to change the roles required in the emergency response as needed.
- the ICS roles he or she activates ( 9 ) have permissions to read the emergency plan, with focus on their part of the emergency plan—meaning that their procedures are displayed upon login to facilitate the emergency response. The remaining permissions, that of the facility staff ( 10 ) and the general population ( 11 ) are give further access to the emergency plan, at levels equal to their participation in the emergency response.
- FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic representation of FIG. 3 :
- a network of facilities may interchange elements of the emergency plan during planning and training phases.
- the emergency planner ( 13 ) at facility 1 ( 12 ) may exchange ( 13 a ) policies, data, or communications with his or her counterparts ( 18 ) and ( 23 ) at facilities ( 17 ) and ( 22 ).
- the emergency planning committee associated to facility 1 ( 12 ) may participate ( 14 a , 14 b ) on the planning committees of other facilities ( 17 ) and ( 22 ) by providing review, commentary and feedback on elements of any given emergency plan or component of an emergency plan.
- Each Facility ( 12 , 17 , 22 ) may have a different ICS organization ( 15 , 20 , 25 ) and facility staff roles in the emergency response planning and training ( 16 , 21 , 26 ).
- FIG. 4
- Incident Commanders ( 28 , 32 ) at separate facilities ( 27 , 31 ) may exchange information ( 28 a ) in the form of plan components, event log messages, communications, and data file interchange.
- Activated ICS roles at separate facilities may exchange communications and data, log message events with their counterparts at other facilities. This would be the case in a multi-facility response during a drill or actual event.
- FIG. 5
- Facilities constituting an emergency planner, an emergency planning committee, ICS roles, facility employees and general public associated with a particular facility, may form a network of facilities ( 39 , 40 , 41 ). Each of these facilities may exchange emergency plan components with the other ( 39 a , 40 a , 41 a ).
- FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic representation of FIG. 6 :
- FIG. 6 shows an entity ( 42 ), such as the CDC, publishing information ( 42 a , 42 b ) such as a specific health guideline, to a network of facilities ( 43 , 45 ).
- members of the network may elect not to receive guidelines ( 44 ), or may not have plans that are pertinent to the information being broadcast. Since all facilities are on the network, they may then exchange the information with each other on an as-needed basis ( 43 a , 43 b , 44 a ).
- FIG. 7
- Facilities on a network may also publish information to an entity ( 46 ).
- An entity 46 .
- a sample use is in a public health early warning system where facilities are on the lookout for specific indicators, and are instructed to report incidents to an entity who correlates the data ( 49 a ) into a composite picture.
- FIG. 8
- An entity E 1 ( 50 ) may also route data ( 50 a ) received from facility F 4 ( 51 ) to ( 50 b , 50 c ) a network of facilities F 1 , F 2 , F 3 ( 54 , 52 , 53 ). These facilities may then share the information ( 52 a , 53 a , 54 a ).
- FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic representation of FIG. 9 .
- Entities may be associated with each other, creating a network of entities E 1 , E 2 , E 3 ( 55 , 56 , 57 ). These may share emergency plan information ( 57 a , 55 a , 55 b ), receive reporting information ( 61 a ), as well as route that information to networks of facilities ( 57 b , 57 c ).
- FIG. 10 is a diagrammatic representation of FIG. 10 :
- the Standard Emergency Plan Format consists of the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) ( 62 ), Facility specific policies ( 63 ), Procedures ( 64 ), Emergency resources that are available to the facility ( 65 ), and a described ICS such as the Hospital Incident Command System (HEICS).
- HVA Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
- Facility specific policies 63
- Procedures 64
- Emergency resources that are available to the facility
- 65 65
- a described ICS such as the Hospital Incident Command System (HEICS).
- FIG. 11 is a diagrammatic representation of FIG. 11 :
- the structure of the platform at each facility or entity consists of the following areas: A mapping and geospatial information system (GIS) area ( 67 ), the planning area ( 68 ), an area which presents the entire community ( 69 ) of emergency planners for information interchange, an area for reference ( 70 ) where emergency planners may look up information using simple and advanced search techniques such as keyword or facility type, and area where facilities or entities may publish information to the community ( 71 ), a response area ( 72 ) where those with ICS roles may set or view the current response phase of the emergency plan, and view information pertaining to their particular role in the response to an emergency, or in a drill for a particular emergency.
- a reporting area ( 72 a ) allows the emergency planner and select ICS roles to create and view reports pertaining to the emergency plan.
- a Training area is provided where the emergency planner creates, maintains and updates drills, training materials and their component parts.
- FIG. 12 Database tables—Plan Table Structure
- FIG. 13 Database tables—Hazard Vulnerability Analysis Table Structure
- FIG. 14 Database tables—Policy Table Structure
- FIG. 15 Database tables—Resource Table Structure
- FIG. 16 Database tables—Incident Command System Table Structure
- FIG. 17 Database tables—Emergency Planning Committee Task table structure
- FIG. 18 Database tables—Emergency Planning Committee table structure
- FIG. 19 Database tables—User Facility table structure
- FIGS. 20-64 Scenario Screenshots (see scenario section)
- FIG. 65 Plan ERD—Plan ( 74 ) contains GIS Data information ( 75 )
- FIG. 66 Plan ERD—Plan ( 76 ) contains version log ( 77 ) of version records ( 78 ).
- FIG. 67 Plan ERD—Plan ( 79 ) contains Emergency Planning Committees ( 80 ) which contain multiple user groups ( 81 ) each of which may contain multiple users ( 82 ).
- FIG. 68 Plan ERD—Plan ( 83 ) may contain multiple HVAs, each of which identify a multitude of Hazards ( 85 ), each of which may contain Policies ( 86 ), Resources ( 87 ) and Forms ( 88 ). Policies may have Procedures associated with them ( 89 ), and resources may have specific forms associated with them such as Memoranda of Undersatandings (MOU) ( 90 ).
- MOU Memoranda of Undersatandings
- FIG. 69 Users have abilities according to their permission level. Users ( 91 ) may variously view, edit, or comment on: Plans ( 92 ), Procedures ( 93 ), resources ( 94 ), Training Scenarios ( 95 ), Policies ( 96 ), HVAs ( 97 ), and Forms ( 98 ).
- FIG. 70 The Plan ( 99 ) may contain one or many resource assessments ( 100 ), each of which may contain Resources ( 101 ).
- FIG. 71 The emergency plan ( 102 ) may contain one or many Response Guidelines ( 103 ) each of which may contain a single guideline ( 104 ).
- FIG. 72 The emergency plan ( 105 ) contains one or more organization charts representing an ICS, each of which designates ICS Roles ( 107 ), each role may contain references to specific forms ( 108 ) used by that role in the ICS. Roles ( 107 , 109 ) may be assigned to one or more Users ( 110 ).
- FIG. 73 The emergency plan ( 111 ) has a collection of policies, a poly index ( 112 ) which contains one or many policies ( 113 ), which may identify a related Hazard ( 114 ) and resources ( 115 ) that may be used in that policy.
- FIG. 74 The Emergency Plan has a collection of Drill catalogs ( 117 ) each of which contain one or many Drill Scenarios ( 118 ).
- Drill Scenarios may be associated to a specific hazard or hazards ( 120 ), and may contain one or many; Master Sequence of Events Lists ( 121 ), After Action Reports ( 122 ), Patient Catalogs ( 123 ) and Educational Materials ( 124 ).
- the Patient Catalog lists multiple patient cards ( 128 ) each with an ID ( 125 ), a list of symptoms ( 126 ) and an observer guide ( 127 ).
- FIG. 76 Educational Materials ( 129 ) consist of Tests ( 130 ), pre-tests ( 130 ) and Study material ( 131 ). Tests have associated Users ( 132 ) and Test Results ( 133 ).
- This patent application includes an Appendix having a file named Appendix681764-1U2.txt, created on Sep. 22, 2009, and having a size of 1,426,049 bytes.
- the Appendix is incorporated by reference into the present patent application.
- the Networked Emergency Management System is preferably realized as a web application located on one or more servers and is accessed using standard web protocols (HTTP, HTTPS) from an interne web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari, web enabled personal digital assistants (PDAs), or web-enabled wireless telephones.
- HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
- the present invention allows the user, through a secure login, to access the platform according to permission level, from emergency planner ( FIGS. 1-2 ) to member of the general public ( FIGS. 1-6 ). What the user sees, and what they are allowed to do with the present invention, relies on the amount of permissions they have been granted on the system.
- the Emergency Planner has the highest level of permissions and will be presented with the tools needed to create, update and maintain an emergency management plan for a facility of network of facilities.
- Emergency Planners use the system to exchange emergency management information centered around a standardized emergency plan and each of the plans component parts; the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA), Policies, Procedures, Resources and a detailed Incident Command System. ( FIG. 10 )
- HVA Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
- Policies Policies, Procedures, Resources
- a detailed Incident Command System FIG. 10
- the emergency planner may wish to import a policy from a facility that has more experience with a particular kind of hazard. Using the present invention, they may do so instantly ( FIGS. 24-26 ).
- the HVA ( FIGS. 10-62 ) is a standard tool of the emergency planner.
- the advantage of the present invention's implementation of the HVA is the standardization of the format used in calculation of risk, allowing all emergency planners to use the same basis of risk. It also standardizes the hazards risk is calculated for.
- the function used to calculate risk is
- maxtotal_p is sum of maximum possible likelihoods
- sum_impacts is a summation of all impact scores
- maxtotal_impacts is a sum of the maximum possible impacts
- the present invention provides an optional simple method of entering information into the HVA, intended to simplify use by the new or inexperienced planner. ( FIG. 38 ). This method asks the planner a series of questions, the answers to which inform the results of the HVA. When the questionnaire is complete, the user is shown the completed HVA. ( FIG. 37 ).
- Policies ( FIG. 10-63 ) in the framework of the present invention constitute all of the textual material of the plan with the present invention and provide two important advantages, namely, the ability to interchange policies between plans with a single click ( FIG. 24 ), and the ability to label a segment of the Policy as a Procedure, allowing it to be listed separately with other policies for rapid review during an emergency drill or actual response.
- Procedures are sections of policies that directly correspond with steps or instructions that must be taken in an emergency plan.
- An example of a procedure is “How to don protective gear in a hazardous materials response”.
- Such instructions would be labeled a Procedure in the present invention and added to the facilities emergency management plan. Since these instructions have been labeled, a procedure allows them to be listed separately in the Procedures area, and may be read with a single click.
- Resources in the present invention address the need to collect records of all emergency management resources available to the emergency plan in the event of an emergency, a drill, or during planning or recovery phase to estimate the financial expense of an emergency.
- These resources list the type of resource (fire department, pharmaceutical supplies, or bed availability), details on the resource, number, contact information, and the geospatial location of those resources so that they may be plotted on a map ( FIG. 52 ).
- the Incident Command System is an organizational chart specifically for use in emergency management. It lists all roles in the emergency response, their titles and hierarchical relationship to each other.
- FIG. 54 The advantage that the present invention provides, besides providing all relevant emergency information in one place in the form of HVA, policies, procedures, resources and ICS, is that each role of the ICS may be edited. This allows the emergency planner to edit any chosen role in the ICS, and change the specifics of their role, such as the title of that role, its mission or any of its responsibilities or forms that are required by the role. ( FIG. 57 ).
- the Emergency Planner has access to all areas of the system: Home/Map, Plan, Community, Reference, Publish, response, Report, and Train.
- the Home mapping area is used by the planner to visualize the status of the network and to determine the geospatial importance of the facility's location, the location of potential hazards, the location of existing or potential physical features, and geospatial historical data, such as flood, hurricane or earthquake risk. ( FIG. 53 , FIG. 52 )
- the Plan area offers the emergency planner access to all components of the emergency plan via a tabbed graphic user interface. ( FIG. 22 ). Each area of the plan listed in FIG. 10 may be accessed.
- Emergency Planners may communicate with each other using the common interface of a bulletin board in the Community area. ( FIG. 60 ) This area is available only to users with emergency planner permissions, and is organized into emergency management related forums such as “Disasters & Events” and “Public Health”. Forums may be used to post messages between emergency planner, facilitating cooperation between organizations.
- the Reference area ( FIG. 61 ) allows the emergency planner to search the internal database for information published by others on the network. Users may search by means of keyword, facility type, facility size, bed count and geographical location. Items in the internal database are uploaded by users on the network via the Publish area. ( FIG. 62 ). To upload a data file, the emergency planner simply fills out the supplied fields, selects the file and presses Submit. At this point, the uploaded file may be accessed by all other planners on the network.
- the Reporting Area allows the emergency planner to generate reports related to the emergency plan, including but not limited to: all Emergency Planning Committee comments, communication dates and times, and feedback, historical changes to the emergency plan and its component parts, audit trails of user access to the plan, actions logged during training, training test results by user or by test, After Action reports, changes and status of emergency resource inventories.
- This table holds the groups of the LiveProcess community. It is primarily tied to the LPGroup class defined in classGroup.php.
- This table links entries in the lp_user table to entries in the lp_group table. Through this table, users may belong to more than one group.
- This table links entries in the lp_group table to entries in the pln_plan table. Through this table, one group can have many plans and one plan can belong to multiple groups.
- This table holds all the facilities that will have a plan.
- This table joins users to facilities. This will be helpful in picking out which users sees which plans.
- This table holds the profile information used to create our profile page. This table is used primarily by classProfile.php.
- This table holds all the salutations. It links to the lp_user.usr_salutaion_id cell for each user.
- This table lists all the plans available on the LiveProcess Community. It is used primarily by the LPPlan class in classPlan.php.
- This table links executive planning committees (EPCs) to plans. Through this table, EPCs can look at multiple plans and plans can be reviewed by more than one EPC.
- EPCs executive planning committees
- This table links HEICS systems to plans. Through this table, one plan can hold one or many HEICS or one HEICS can belong to one or many plans.
- This table links HVAs to plans. Through this table, one plan can hold one or many HVAs or one HVA can belong to one or many plans.
- This table links resources to plans. Through this table, one plan can hold one or many resources or one resource can belong to one or many plans.
- This table describes an EPC. It is primarily used by the LPEpc class defined in classEPC.php.
- This table describes an EPC group. It is primarily used by the LPEpcgroup class in classEPC.php.
- This table joins users to an EPC group. Through this table an EPC group can have multiple users and one user can belong to multiple EPC groups.
- This table joins EPCs and EPC groups.
- an EPC can have one or many EPC groups and one EPC group can belong to one or many EPCs.
- This table is used by the response section of the platform which will allow incident commanders to create the incident and general staff to view the various states of the incident. Reports can be created from the data in this table as well.
- This section will provide usage scenarios for the LiveProcess platform.
- a user wishes to create an emergency management plan for his facility and have it available online for authorized users to view.
- a user wishes to select and open an existing emergency management plan for his facility so that he can view and edit the content.
- the user wishes to add a policy to his emergency management plan. He may already have the policy content in a Microsoft Word document or an Adobe Acrobat PDF but would like it to be available online at LiveProcess where authorized users may access it.
- the user wishes to import a policy created by another hospital or user, into his own emergency management plan.
- a user When a user adds a policy to his plan, he has the option to make it private or to share the policy with other users of LiveProcess. If a policy has been made public, other users may import it into their own plans. To import a policy, the user would click on the “PLAN” tab, select and open a plan, and then click on the “Import a Policy” link located on the plan details page, as illustrated in FIG. 5 . This would take the user to the “Policy Search” page, shown in FIG. 6 , where he would input keywords to search for a policy. After hitting “Search” the user will see a list of search results. He would then click on one of the policies to view it, as shown in FIG. 7 .
- the user would like to add a segment, or section, to a policy in his emergency management plan.
- the user wishes to post a comment on a particular policy, segment of a policy, or procedure. He wishes to send this comment to certain members of his emergency planning committee and have it time/date stamped.
- the user is posting a comment on the “Donning Protective Clothing” segment of the “Code Triage—Code C (Chemical) policy. Specifically, he is asking whether staff will be using “Tyvek suits with booties.” He has selected that this question be sent to members of his “Emergency Planning” and “Hazmat Committees.”
- a user or emergency planning committee member wishes to view and respond to comments posted on the plan.
- the user would like to add a procedure to his emergency management plan.
- the user would like to quickly view and access the parts of his emergency plan policies that are procedures. This is done via the Procedures page. The user can add a procedure to this page by tagging it within his policies. To do this, the user would select the policy that contains the procedure, as shown in FIG. 15 . The user would then put a check next to the option “Is a Procedure for this Code” as shown in FIG. 16 . Corresponding screenshots are shown in FIGS. 34-35 .
- HVA Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
- a user would be able to view the HVA for his facility by clicking on the “PLAN” tab and then “HVA.” This would display a standard Kaiser model of the facility's HVA as shown in FIG. 18 . A corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 37 .
- HVA Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
- a user would be able to create or edit the HVA for his facility by clicking on the “PLAN” tab, selecting “HVA,” and then clicking either “Normal View” or “Expert View.” Clicking “Normal View” presents the HVA in questionnaire format as shown in FIG. 19 . Clicking on “Expert View” presents the HVA in grid format as shown in FIG. 20 . Either format allows the user to edit the information. As soon as new data is entered and submitted, the “Risk” column in the HVA is automatically recalculated. Corresponding screenshots are shown in FIGS. 38-39 .
- a user wishes to view the resources available to his facility.
- a user would be able to view the resources for his facility by clicking on the “PLAN” tab and then “Resources.” This would display a list of all resources relevant to his facility, as shown in FIG. 21 . The user can zoom in to resources beginning with a particular letter by clicking on the alphabet bar header at the top of the page. A corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 40 .
- a user wishes to create or add new resources to the resource list in his plan.
- a user wishes to import a resource, from the existing LiveProcess database of resources, into his plan.
- a user has the option to create his own resources or to import resources into his plan from the LiveProcess database of resources.
- To import a resource he would click on the PLAN tab>Resources>Import a Resource, as shown in FIG. 24 .
- a corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 43 .
- the “Search Results” page shown in FIG. 26 , would display all the California resources available in the LiveProcess Resource Database. From there, the user would simply click on a resource to add it to his plan.
- a corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 45 .
- EPC emergency planning committees
- a user is able to set up his EPCs by clicking on HOME>EPC. This takes him to the EPC Creator page shown in FIG. 27 . From here the user has two options, he can use the LiveProcess EPC template, which automatically sets up 7 blank committees, or he can create a custom EPC. A corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 46 .
- a user wishes to edit his emergency planning committees (EPC) in LiveProcess. For example, he may want to remove some people from an EPC.
- EPC emergency planning committees
- a user wishes to view a map showing his facility and local region.
- a user wishes to have a visual way to assess which hazard types pose a risk in a particular region or across the United States.
- a user may gather historical hazard incident data by using the GIS MAP located on the HOME tab of LiveProcess. For example, the user could select “hail” from the “Hazard Type” picklist as shown in FIG. 32 . A corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 51 .
- a user wishes to have a visual way to view the types of resources located in a particular region or across the United States.
- a user may gather info on available resources by using the GIS MAP located on the HOME tab of LiveProcess.
- the “Resource Type” picklist contains options such as Fire Depts., Pharmaceuticals, Ventilators, and Water.
- a corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 53 .
- ICS Incident Command System
- HEICS Hospital Incident Command System
- the user would click on the PLAN tab, select a plan, and then click on ICS. This would bring up a page displaying all 49 of the standard HEICS roles.
- the standard view shown in FIG. 35 , displays each position title.
- the Crosswalk view shown in FIG. 36 , displays each position title and the name of the person assigned to the position.
- Corresponding screenshots are shown in FIGS. 54-55 .
- a user wishes to view the job action sheet (JAS) associated with a specific role in the incident command system (ICS).
- JS job action sheet
- ICS incident command system
- the Job Action Sheet autofills in the name of the person who has been assigned the position. If there is a “Reports to” person, that name will be autofilled in as well, based on assignments made by the user.
- a user wishes to create a custom job action sheet for a specific role in the incident command system (ICS).
- ICS incident command system
- a user wishes to view the standard forms associated with a specific role in the incident command system (ICS).
- ICS incident command system
- a user wishes to communicate with other emergency management professionals in a secure online forum.
- the user would click on the Community tab. This would display the Community page shown in FIG. 41 .
- the user can access various online discussion forums. The user may post comments, polls, file attachments, and links in the online discussion forums. A corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 60 .
- a user wishes to search and view reference materials provided by other emergency management professionals.
- the user would click on the REFERENCE tab and type keywords into the search box.
- the user has done a search on the keyword “decon.”
- the user would click “Import” and then choose to open or save the document to his computer.
- the Reference area contains many different file types, including MS Word docs, Excel files, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs.
- a corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 61 .
- a user wishes to publish reference materials so that they can be accessed by other emergency management professionals.
- the user would click on the PUBLISH tab, fill in the brief form describing the material, and then upload the file from his computer.
- the user may publish many different file types, including MS Word docs, Excel files, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs. A corresponding screenshot is shown in FIG. 62 .
- the present invention may be implemented with any combination of hardware and software. If implemented as a computer-implemented apparatus, the present present invention is implemented using means for performing all of the steps and functions described above.
- the present invention can be included in an article of manufacture (e.g., one or more computer program products) having, for instance, computer useable media.
- the media has embodied therein, for instance, computer readable program code means for providing and facilitating the mechanisms of the present invention.
- the article of manufacture can be included as part of a computer system or sold separately.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented process allows emergency plans to be easily and rapidly created for a plurality of different facilities. An emergency plan is provided in electronic form for each facility. Each emergency plan has a standardized format with a plurality of component parts. Each emergency plan has at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities. An electronic network is provided which allows at least some of the facilities to electronically obtain the accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities. A user interface allows the emergency plan of a facility to electronically import into its emergency plan selected content of one or more component parts of the emergency plan of another facility using the electronic network. The electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans.
Description
- This application is a continuation of copending U.S. application Ser. No. 11/349,422 filed Feb. 7, 2006, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, including the compact disk appendix filed therein which was also incorporated by reference therein.
- This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/663,463 filed Mar. 18, 2005 and entitled “Networked Emergency Management System.”
- Portions of the documentation in this patent document contain material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.
- Natural and man-made disasters are more common than ever. In healthcare, their impact is far more serious than facility damage and standard business continuity and extends to the safety of the patients, employees and surrounding community. Yet most hospital emergency managers use a word processor to create emergency management plans and training materials and store them in cumbersome three-ring binders. This makes updating the plan, running drills and responding to an emergency difficult, time-intensive and often ineffective. In addition to the broader safety issues, these tasks are strictly mandated and monitored by regulatory agencies such as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and poor performance has direct impact on Medicare reimbursement, fines, and patient perception. There is a clear unmet need for an easy-to-use solution for creating and updating emergency management plans and training materials.
- The Networked Emergency Management System enables emergency managers to share emergency plans and their component parts, best practices, and training materials in a standardized format for the first time. This content is Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS), National Incident Management System (NIMS) and JCAHO compliant and can be readily customized to one's unique facility. The present invention transforms a traditional emergency management plan from a lengthy and convoluted set of text documents in a three-ring binder into an immediately accessible live process.
- Existing emergency management software includes at least the following offerings:
- 1. Real-time systems designed to focus on broad county-level emergency response. (Examples: WebEOC® available from Emergency Services integrators, Augusta, Ga., WorldWideWeb. webeoc.com; E Team, available from E Team, Inc., WorldWideWeb.eteam.com; and Blue 292 software, available from Blue292, Inc., Durham, N.C., WorldWideWeb.blue292.com).
- 2. Real-time systems designed to provide information on emergency-room bed availability in the event of an incident. (Examples: Reddinet®, available from Reddinet, Los Angeles, Calif., WorldWideWeb.reddinet.com; and EMSystem®, available from EMSystem, LLC, Milwaukee, Wis., WorldWideWeb.emsystem.com).
- 3. Incident Management software designed for security professionals to document and track incidents or investigations in an emergency in order to recover the most money from federal reimbursement agencies or private insurers. (Example: IRIMS® software available from PPM 2000 Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, WorldWideWeb.ppm2000.com).
- 4. Business Continuity recovery solutions, primarily focused on corporations and their IT systems. (Examples: Software available from Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, Calif., WorldWideWeb.symantec.com; and Strohl Systems Group Inc., King of Prussia, Pa., WorldWideWeb.strohlsystems.com).
- 5. Learning management systems that address compliance and safety. (Examples: PureSafety, Nashville, Tenn., puresafety.com; and Blackboard Inc., Washington, D.C., WorldWideWeb.blackboard.com)
- 6. Offerings for Compliance. (Example: Compliance Suite, available from Environmental Support Solutions, Inc. (ESS), Denver, Colo., WorldWideWeb.ess-home.com)
- The present invention is distinct from each of these in that it is a platform focused on healthcare, and it is a solution focused primarily on preparedness and mitigation rather than response or recovery.
- The present invention is described in the context of a preferred embodiment of a web-based software application commercialized as LiveProcess™ (WorldWideWeb.liveprocess.com), which is a platform for integrated emergency management. LiveProcess is a service of LiveProcess Corporation, Chatham, N.J. However, the scope of the present invention is not limited to this particular implementation of the invention. The present invention is described in the context of a plurality of distributed computers, all of which are linked together by an electronic network, such as the Internet. The computers may be any type of computing device that allows a user to interact with a web site via a web browser. For example, the computers may be personal computers (PC) that run a Microsoft Windows® operating system. The computers may also be handheld, wireless devices.
- The foundation of the present invention lies in the implementation of a standard organization of the emergency management plan format. (
FIG. 10 ) This format first divides an emergency plan into five areas; a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (62), emergency policies (63), procedures that must be followed (64), emergency resources that are available to the emergency planner (65) and an Incident Command System command structure, and second, provides a system in which this organization may be utilized. These areas of the emergency plan are common to all emergency plans for all facilities. - Organizing the high level structure in this manner allows the present invention to operate on emergency management plans, allows interoperability of emergency plan components, allows flexibility to accommodate the differences of facilities, and allows the users of emergency management plans to coordinate their efforts in the four areas of emergency management: Mitigation, Planning, Response and Recovery.
- The present invention allows emergency planners representing a facility (
FIG. 1 ), or networks of facilities (FIG. 5 ), to interchange elements of their emergency plans (FIG. 3 ), for example policies, procedures or training modules, instantly. Furthermore, it allows entities without fixed facilities, for example the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to publish (FIG. 6 ), and route (FIG. 8 ), emergency procedures, guidelines or training modules and have those procedures, guidelines or training modules instantly implemented at facilities on the network. -
FIG. 1 : - Permissions to the emergency plan and its component parts are organized into levels. The emergency planner (2) is the person or persons whose primary responsibility is creating, updating and maintaining the emergency plan for the facility or network of facilities. This person has full access to his or her facilities emergency plans, procedures, resources and training data. Secondary in permissions to the emergency planner is the emergency planning committee (3). This is a person or group of persons whose responsibility is to participate in the planning of the facility through review and commentary on the emergency plan. Emergency planning committee members may be blocked from seeing the entire plan, they only need to see what they need to facilitate emergency planning—the particular policies, procedures, resources etc that they have been asked to comment on. The third level of permission is the Incident Command System (ICS) role (4). Each role in a facilities ICS organizational chart may view the plan, especially his or her part in the plan, but will not have permission to change, edit, or add to the plan. The next level of permission is that of the facility employee (5). This person does not have a specific role in the ICS, but still must know, and be familiar with, general emergency plan policies of the facility. This person only has access to the non-ICS portions of the plan that pertain to employees or residents of a particular facility. The final level of permission is that of the general public who have a need for access to a facilities emergency plan (6). This level of permission is read-only and is limited to information designated as for public use. All of these levels of permission taken together constitute a facilities planning and training permissions levels (1).
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FIG. 2 : - During a Drill or an Actual event, the emergency plan will be accessed using the permissions shown in
FIG. 2 . Every emergency response is judged as to its severity, if the emergency warrants the Incident Command System will be activated. The top level of permissions in the Incident Command System are given to the Incident Commander (8). This allows him or her to change the status of the emergency response, direct the facilities response to the given emergency, and to change the roles required in the emergency response as needed. The ICS roles he or she activates (9) have permissions to read the emergency plan, with focus on their part of the emergency plan—meaning that their procedures are displayed upon login to facilitate the emergency response. The remaining permissions, that of the facility staff (10) and the general population (11) are give further access to the emergency plan, at levels equal to their participation in the emergency response. -
FIG. 3 : - A network of facilities may interchange elements of the emergency plan during planning and training phases. The emergency planner (13) at facility 1 (12) may exchange (13 a) policies, data, or communications with his or her counterparts (18) and (23) at facilities (17) and (22). The emergency planning committee associated to facility 1 (12) may participate (14 a,14 b) on the planning committees of other facilities (17) and (22) by providing review, commentary and feedback on elements of any given emergency plan or component of an emergency plan. Each Facility (12,17,22) may have a different ICS organization (15,20,25) and facility staff roles in the emergency response planning and training (16,21,26).
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FIG. 4 : - During an emergency response drill or emergency event, Incident Commanders (28, 32) at separate facilities (27,31) may exchange information (28 a) in the form of plan components, event log messages, communications, and data file interchange. Activated ICS roles at separate facilities may exchange communications and data, log message events with their counterparts at other facilities. This would be the case in a multi-facility response during a drill or actual event.
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FIG. 5 : - Facilities, constituting an emergency planner, an emergency planning committee, ICS roles, facility employees and general public associated with a particular facility, may form a network of facilities (39,40,41). Each of these facilities may exchange emergency plan components with the other (39 a,40 a,41 a).
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FIG. 6 : -
FIG. 6 shows an entity (42), such as the CDC, publishing information (42 a,42 b) such as a specific health guideline, to a network of facilities (43, 45). members of the network may elect not to receive guidelines (44), or may not have plans that are pertinent to the information being broadcast. Since all facilities are on the network, they may then exchange the information with each other on an as-needed basis (43 a, 43 b, 44 a). -
FIG. 7 : - Facilities on a network (49, 47, 48), who regularly exchange information (47 a, 48 a, 49 a) may also publish information to an entity (46). A sample use is in a public health early warning system where facilities are on the lookout for specific indicators, and are instructed to report incidents to an entity who correlates the data (49 a) into a composite picture.
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FIG. 8 : - An entity E1 (50) may also route data (50 a) received from facility F4 (51) to (50 b,50 c) a network of facilities F1, F2, F3 (54, 52, 53). These facilities may then share the information (52 a,53 a,54 a).
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FIG. 9 : - Entities may be associated with each other, creating a network of entities E1, E2, E3 (55,56,57). These may share emergency plan information (57 a, 55 a, 55 b), receive reporting information (61 a), as well as route that information to networks of facilities (57 b, 57 c).
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FIG. 10 : - The Standard Emergency Plan Format consists of the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) (62), Facility specific policies (63), Procedures (64), Emergency resources that are available to the facility (65), and a described ICS such as the Hospital Incident Command System (HEICS).
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FIG. 11 : - The structure of the platform at each facility or entity consists of the following areas: A mapping and geospatial information system (GIS) area (67), the planning area (68), an area which presents the entire community (69) of emergency planners for information interchange, an area for reference (70) where emergency planners may look up information using simple and advanced search techniques such as keyword or facility type, and area where facilities or entities may publish information to the community (71), a response area (72) where those with ICS roles may set or view the current response phase of the emergency plan, and view information pertaining to their particular role in the response to an emergency, or in a drill for a particular emergency. A reporting area (72 a) allows the emergency planner and select ICS roles to create and view reports pertaining to the emergency plan. A Training area is provided where the emergency planner creates, maintains and updates drills, training materials and their component parts.
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FIG. 12 : Database tables—Plan Table Structure -
FIG. 13 : Database tables—Hazard Vulnerability Analysis Table Structure -
FIG. 14 : Database tables—Policy Table Structure -
FIG. 15 : Database tables—Resource Table Structure -
FIG. 16 : Database tables—Incident Command System Table Structure -
FIG. 17 : Database tables—Emergency Planning Committee Task table structure -
FIG. 18 : Database tables—Emergency Planning Committee table structure -
FIG. 19 : Database tables—User Facility table structure -
FIGS. 20-64 : Scenario Screenshots (see scenario section) -
FIG. 65 : Plan ERD—Plan (74) contains GIS Data information (75) -
FIG. 66 : Plan ERD—Plan (76) contains version log (77) of version records (78). -
FIG. 67 : Plan ERD—Plan (79) contains Emergency Planning Committees (80) which contain multiple user groups (81) each of which may contain multiple users (82). -
FIG. 68 : Plan ERD—Plan (83) may contain multiple HVAs, each of which identify a multitude of Hazards (85), each of which may contain Policies (86), Resources (87) and Forms (88). Policies may have Procedures associated with them (89), and resources may have specific forms associated with them such as Memoranda of Undersatandings (MOU) (90). -
FIG. 69 : Users have abilities according to their permission level. Users (91) may variously view, edit, or comment on: Plans (92), Procedures (93), resources (94), Training Scenarios (95), Policies (96), HVAs (97), and Forms (98). -
FIG. 70 : The Plan (99) may contain one or many resource assessments (100), each of which may contain Resources (101). -
FIG. 71 : The emergency plan (102) may contain one or many Response Guidelines (103) each of which may contain a single guideline (104). -
FIG. 72 : The emergency plan (105) contains one or more organization charts representing an ICS, each of which designates ICS Roles (107), each role may contain references to specific forms (108) used by that role in the ICS. Roles (107,109) may be assigned to one or more Users (110). -
FIG. 73 : The emergency plan (111) has a collection of policies, a poly index (112) which contains one or many policies (113), which may identify a related Hazard (114) and resources (115) that may be used in that policy. -
FIG. 74 : The Emergency Plan has a collection of Drill catalogs (117) each of which contain one or many Drill Scenarios (118). -
FIG. 75 : Drill Scenarios may be associated to a specific hazard or hazards (120), and may contain one or many; Master Sequence of Events Lists (121), After Action Reports (122), Patient Catalogs (123) and Educational Materials (124). The Patient Catalog lists multiple patient cards (128) each with an ID (125), a list of symptoms (126) and an observer guide (127). -
FIG. 76 : Educational Materials (129) consist of Tests (130), pre-tests (130) and Study material (131). Tests have associated Users (132) and Test Results (133). - This patent application includes an Appendix having a file named Appendix681764-1U2.txt, created on Sep. 22, 2009, and having a size of 1,426,049 bytes. The Appendix is incorporated by reference into the present patent application.
- The Networked Emergency Management System is preferably realized as a web application located on one or more servers and is accessed using standard web protocols (HTTP, HTTPS) from an interne web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari, web enabled personal digital assistants (PDAs), or web-enabled wireless telephones.
- The present invention allows the user, through a secure login, to access the platform according to permission level, from emergency planner (
FIGS. 1-2 ) to member of the general public (FIGS. 1-6 ). What the user sees, and what they are allowed to do with the present invention, relies on the amount of permissions they have been granted on the system. The Emergency Planner has the highest level of permissions and will be presented with the tools needed to create, update and maintain an emergency management plan for a facility of network of facilities. - Emergency Planners use the system to exchange emergency management information centered around a standardized emergency plan and each of the plans component parts; the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA), Policies, Procedures, Resources and a detailed Incident Command System. (
FIG. 10 ) For example, the emergency planner may wish to import a policy from a facility that has more experience with a particular kind of hazard. Using the present invention, they may do so instantly (FIGS. 24-26 ). - The HVA (
FIGS. 10-62 ) is a standard tool of the emergency planner. The advantage of the present invention's implementation of the HVA is the standardization of the format used in calculation of risk, allowing all emergency planners to use the same basis of risk. It also standardizes the hazards risk is calculated for. The function used to calculate risk is -
r=(p/maxtotal— p)*((sum_impacts)/maxtotal_impacts)*100 - where
- r is risk in terms of a percentage
- p is likelihood
- maxtotal_p is sum of maximum possible likelihoods
- sum_impacts is a summation of all impact scores
- maxtotal_impacts is a sum of the maximum possible impacts
- This function may be seen in use in the HVA (
FIG. 39 ) In addition, the present invention provides an optional simple method of entering information into the HVA, intended to simplify use by the new or inexperienced planner. (FIG. 38 ). This method asks the planner a series of questions, the answers to which inform the results of the HVA. When the questionnaire is complete, the user is shown the completed HVA. (FIG. 37 ). - Policies (
FIG. 10-63 ) in the framework of the present invention constitute all of the textual material of the plan with the present invention and provide two important advantages, namely, the ability to interchange policies between plans with a single click (FIG. 24 ), and the ability to label a segment of the Policy as a Procedure, allowing it to be listed separately with other policies for rapid review during an emergency drill or actual response. - Procedures (
FIGS. 10-64 ) are sections of policies that directly correspond with steps or instructions that must be taken in an emergency plan. An example of a procedure is “How to don protective gear in a hazardous materials response”. Such instructions would be labeled a Procedure in the present invention and added to the facilities emergency management plan. Since these instructions have been labeled, a procedure allows them to be listed separately in the Procedures area, and may be read with a single click. - Resources in the present invention address the need to collect records of all emergency management resources available to the emergency plan in the event of an emergency, a drill, or during planning or recovery phase to estimate the financial expense of an emergency. These resources list the type of resource (fire department, pharmaceutical supplies, or bed availability), details on the resource, number, contact information, and the geospatial location of those resources so that they may be plotted on a map (
FIG. 52 ). - The Incident Command System is an organizational chart specifically for use in emergency management. It lists all roles in the emergency response, their titles and hierarchical relationship to each other. (
FIG. 54 ) The advantage that the present invention provides, besides providing all relevant emergency information in one place in the form of HVA, policies, procedures, resources and ICS, is that each role of the ICS may be edited. This allows the emergency planner to edit any chosen role in the ICS, and change the specifics of their role, such as the title of that role, its mission or any of its responsibilities or forms that are required by the role. (FIG. 57 ). - The Emergency Planner has access to all areas of the system: Home/Map, Plan, Community, Reference, Publish, response, Report, and Train. The Home mapping area is used by the planner to visualize the status of the network and to determine the geospatial importance of the facility's location, the location of potential hazards, the location of existing or potential physical features, and geospatial historical data, such as flood, hurricane or earthquake risk. (
FIG. 53 ,FIG. 52 ) - The Plan area offers the emergency planner access to all components of the emergency plan via a tabbed graphic user interface. (
FIG. 22 ). Each area of the plan listed inFIG. 10 may be accessed. - Emergency Planners may communicate with each other using the common interface of a bulletin board in the Community area. (
FIG. 60 ) This area is available only to users with emergency planner permissions, and is organized into emergency management related forums such as “Disasters & Events” and “Public Health”. Forums may be used to post messages between emergency planner, facilitating cooperation between organizations. - The Reference area (
FIG. 61 ) allows the emergency planner to search the internal database for information published by others on the network. Users may search by means of keyword, facility type, facility size, bed count and geographical location. Items in the internal database are uploaded by users on the network via the Publish area. (FIG. 62 ). To upload a data file, the emergency planner simply fills out the supplied fields, selects the file and presses Submit. At this point, the uploaded file may be accessed by all other planners on the network. - Response is used by the users of the plan with ICS permissions—this area allows them to see the portions of the plan that specifically relate to them, as they have been assigned to specific roles of the ICS. (
FIG. 55 ,FIG. 57 ) - The Reporting Area allows the emergency planner to generate reports related to the emergency plan, including but not limited to: all Emergency Planning Committee comments, communication dates and times, and feedback, historical changes to the emergency plan and its component parts, audit trails of user access to the plan, actions logged during training, training test results by user or by test, After Action reports, changes and status of emergency resource inventories.
- 1. lp_user
- This table holds every user in the LiveProcess community from Noble Trainees to LP Administrators. It is primarily tied to the LPUser class defined in classUser.php.
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key_user_id int(11) usr_forum_id int(11) usr_keys smallint(6) usr_planner tinyint(4) usr_first varchar(50) usr_last varchar(50) usr_username varchar(50) usr_password varchar(50) usr_salutation_id int(11) usr_dcreated int(11) usr_dmodified int(11) usr_status tinyint(4) - 2. lp_group
- This table holds the groups of the LiveProcess community. It is primarily tied to the LPGroup class defined in classGroup.php.
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key_group_id int(11) grp_forum_id int(11) grp_fullname varchar(255) grp_name varchar(64) grp_abbreviation varchar(8) grp_prefx tinyint(4) grp_prefy tinyint(4) grp_prefzoom tinyint(4) grp_status tinyint(4) - 3. lp_user_group
- This table links entries in the lp_user table to entries in the lp_group table. Through this table, users may belong to more than one group.
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key_user_group_id int(11) ug_user_id int(11) ug_group_id int(11) ug_isprimary tinyint(4) - 4. lp_group_plan
- This table links entries in the lp_group table to entries in the pln_plan table. Through this table, one group can have many plans and one plan can belong to multiple groups.
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key_group_plan_id bigint(20) gpp_group_id bigint(20) gpp_plan_id bigint(20) gpp_sortorder int(11) - 5. lp_facility
- This table holds all the facilities that will have a plan.
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key_facility_id bigint(20) fac_name varchar(255) fac_bedcount int(11) fac_type tinyint(4) fac_description text fac_address1 varchar(255) fac_address2 varchar(255) fac_address3 varchar(255) fac_city varchar(255) fac_state varchar(32) fac_zip varchar(32) fac_phone varchar(64) fac_fax varchar(64) fac_url varchar(128) fac_country varchar(255) fac_region varchar(255) fac_county varchar(255) fac_latitude float(10,5) fac_longitude float(10,5) fac_altitude int(11) fac_prefx tinyint(4) fac_prefy tinyint(4) fac_prefzoom tinyint(4) fac_status tinyint(4) - 6. lp_group_facility
- This table joins facilities to groups
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key_group_facility_id bigint(20) gfc_group_id bigint(20) gfc_facility_id bigint(20) gfc_dcreated int(11) gfc_status tinyint(4) - 7. lp_user_facility
- This table joins users to facilities. This will be helpful in picking out which users sees which plans.
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key_user_facility_id bigint(20) ufc_user_id bigint(20) ufc_facility_id bigint(20) ufc_dcreated int(11) ufc_status tinyint(4) - 8. lp_potentialclient
- This table holds contact information of people who filled in our join page form during the early summer of 2004 before our SalesForce connection was implemented. This table is now obsolete.
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key_potentialclient_id int(11) pc_first varchar(255) pc_last varchar(255) pc_email varchar(255) pc_status int(11) - 9. lp_profile
- This table holds the profile information used to create our profile page. This table is used primarily by classProfile.php.
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key_profile_id int(11) pro_user_id int(11) pro_type_id int(11) pro_name varchar(255) pro_title varchar(255) pro_facility varchar(255) pro_body text pro_snippet text pro_photo_name varchar(255) pro_thumbnail_name varchar(254) pro_logo_name varchar(255) pro_photo_caption text pro_date_published int(11) pro_status tinyint(4) - 10. lp_salutation
- This table holds all the salutations. It links to the lp_user.usr_salutaion_id cell for each user.
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key_salutation_id int(11) sal_name varchar(50) sal_sortorder tinyint(4) - Plan Tables
- 11. pln_plan
- This table lists all the plans available on the LiveProcess Community. It is used primarily by the LPPlan class in classPlan.php.
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key_plan_id bigint(20) pln_name varchar(255) pln_title varchar(255) pln_path text pln_filename varchar(255) pln_description text pln_author_id bigint(20) pln_overview_id bigint(20) pln_heics_id bigint(20) pln_dcreated int(11) pln_dmodified int(11) pln_version varchar(255) pln_status tinyint(4) - 12. pln_overview
- This table holds all the overviews for LiveProcess plans. It is not being used currently.
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key_overview_id bigint(20) ovr_name varchar(255) ovr_title varchar(255) ovr_copy text ovr_description text ovr_author_id bigint(20) ovr_dcreated int(11) ovr_dmodified int(11) ovr_status tinyint(4) - 13. pln_plan_epc
- This table links executive planning committees (EPCs) to plans. Through this table, EPCs can look at multiple plans and plans can be reviewed by more than one EPC.
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key_plan_epc_id bigint(20) ple_plan_id bigint(20) ple_epc_id bigint(20) - 14. pln_plan_heics
- This table links HEICS systems to plans. Through this table, one plan can hold one or many HEICS or one HEICS can belong to one or many plans.
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key_plan_heics_id bigint(20) plh_plan_id bigint(20) plh_heics_id bigint(20) - 15. pln_plan_hva
- This table links HVAs to plans. Through this table, one plan can hold one or many HVAs or one HVA can belong to one or many plans.
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key_plan_hva_id bigint(20) phv_plan_id bigint(20) phv_hva_id bigint(20) phv_sortorder int(11) - 16. pln_plan_resource
- This table links resources to plans. Through this table, one plan can hold one or many resources or one resource can belong to one or many plans.
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key_plan_resource_id bigint(20) plr_plan_id bigint(20) plr_resource_id bigint(20) - 17. pln_plan_facility
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key_plan_facility_id bigint(20) plf_plan_id bigint(20) plf_facility_id bigint(20) - EPC Tables
- 18. pln_epc
- This table describes an EPC. It is primarily used by the LPEpc class defined in classEPC.php.
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key_epc_id bigint(20) epc_name varchar(255) epc_description text epc_author_id bigint(20) epc_dcreated int(11) epc_dmodified int(11) epc_keys int(11) epc_status tinyint(4) - 19. pln_epcgroup
- This table describes an EPC group. It is primarily used by the LPEpcgroup class in classEPC.php.
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key_epcgroup_id bigint(20) epg_name varchar(255) epg_description text epg_author_id bigint(20) epg_dcreated bigint(20) epg_dmodified bigint(20) epg_keys int(11) epg_status tinyint(4) - 20. pln_user_epcgroup
- This table joins users to an EPC group. Through this table an EPC group can have multiple users and one user can belong to multiple EPC groups.
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key_user_epcgroup_id bigint(20) uep_user_id bigint(20) uep_epcgroup_id bigint(20) uep_keys int(11) uep_status tinyint(4) - 21. pln_epc_epcgroup
- This table joins EPCs and EPC groups. Through this table, an EPC can have one or many EPC groups and one EPC group can belong to one or many EPCs.
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key_epc_epcgroup_id bigint(20) eeg_epc_id bigint(20) eeg_epcgroup_id bigint(20) eeg_sortorder int(11) - Incident Tables
- 22. inc_incident
- This table is used by the response section of the platform which will allow incident commanders to create the incident and general staff to view the various states of the incident. Reports can be created from the data in this table as well.
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key_incident_id bigint(20) inc_facility_id bigint(20) inc_code_id bigint(20) inc_tier_id bigint(20) inc_dstart int(11) inc_dend int(11) inc_dstatus tinyint(4) - HEICS Tables
- 23. pln_heics
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key_heics_id bigint(20) hcs_name varchar(255) hcs_description text hcs_author_id bigint(20) hcs_dcreated int(11) hcs_dmodified int(11) hcs_status bigint(20) - 24. pln_heicsrole
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key_heicsrole_id bigint(20) hsr_formtemplate_id bigint(20) hsr_author_id bigint(20) hsr_name varchar(255) hsr_dcreated int(11) hsr_dmodified int(11) hsr_status tinyint(4) - 25. pln_heics_heicsrole
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key_heics_heicsrole_id bigint(20) hsr_heics_id bigint(20) hsr_heicsrole_id bigint(20) hsr_parent_id bigint(20) hsr_commandcenter varchar(255) hsr_commandcontact varchar(255) hsr_sortorder int(11) - 26. pln_heicsrole_user
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key_heicsrole_user_id bigint(20) hru_heics_heicsrole_id bigint(20) hru_user_id bigint(20) hru_firstname varchar(255) hru_lastname varchar(255) - 27. pln_heicsformtemplate
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key_heicsformsection_heicsformitem_id bigint(20) hfh_heicsformsection_id bigint(20) hfh_heicsformitem_id bigint(20) hfh_sortorder int(11) - 36. pln_heicstemplate
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key_task_user_id bigint(20) tku_task_id bigint(20) tku_user_id bigint(20) tku_dassigned int(11) tku_dseen int(11) tku_dlastseen int(11) tku_dclosed int(11) - 40. tsk_comment
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key_comment_id bigint(20) cmt_task_id bigint(20) cmt_plantask_id bigint(20) cmt_element_id bigint(20) cmt_user_id bigint(20) cmt_body text cmt_dcreated int(11) - Tables for HVA
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key_analysis_id int(11) anl_name varchar(255) anl_description text anl_version varchar(255) anl_facility_name varchar(255) anl_facility_bedsize int(11) anl_author_id int(11) anl_dcreated int(11) anl_dmodified int(11) anl_status int(11) - 42. hva_analysis_section
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key_analysis_section_id bigint(20) ans_analysis_id bigint(20) ans_section_id bigint(20) ans_sortorder int(11) - 43. hva_analysis_template
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key_analysis_template_id int(11) ant_name varchar(255) ant_description text ant_hazardlist text ant_vulnerabilitylist text ant_author_id int(11) - 44. hva_hazard
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key_hazard_id int(11) haz_name varchar(255) haz_description text haz_category_id int(11) haz_author_id int(11) haz_status int(11) - 45. hva_hazard_analysis
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key_hazard_analysis_id int(11) hza_section_id bigint(20) hza_hazard_id int(11) hza_analysis_id int(11) hza_sortorder int(11) - 46. hva_hazard_category
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key_hazard_category_id int(11) hzc_name varchar(255) hzc_status int(11) - 47. hva_section
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key_vulnerability_id int(11) vul_type varchar(255) vul_label varchar(255) vul_ismitigation tinyint(4) vul_min int(11) vul_max int(11) vul_question text vul_author_id int(11) vul_sortorder int(11) vul_status int(11) - 49. hva_vulnerability_analysis
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key_vulnerability_analysis_id int(11) vla_hza_id int(11) vla_vulnerability_id int(11) vla_value varchar(255) - Tables for Resources
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key_resource_id bigint(20) res_company varchar(255) res_address1 varchar(255) res_address2 varchar(255) res_address3 varchar(255) res_city varchar(255) res_state varchar(8) res_zip varchar(32) res_phone varchar(64) res_fax varchar(64) res_email varchar(255) res_website varchar(255) res_type_id bigint(20) res_author_id bigint(20) res_latitude float(10,5) res_longitude float(10,5) res_altitude decimal(10,0) res_dcreated int(11) res_dmodified int(11) res_status int(11) - 51. pln_resourcetype
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key_resource_type_id bigint(20) rst_name varchar(255) rst_category_id int(11) rst_sortorder int(11) rst_dcreated int(11) rst_dmodified int(11) rst_status int(11) - 52. pln_contact
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key_contact_id bigint(20) cnt_resource_id bigint(20) cnt_first varchar(255) cnt_last varchar(255) cnt_title varchar(255) cnt_address1 varchar(255) cnt_address2 varchar(255) cnt_address3 varchar(255) cnt_city varchar(255) cnt_state varchar(8) cnt_zip varchar(16) cnt_phone varchar(64) cnt_mobile varchar(64) cnt_fax varchar(64) cnt_email varchar(255) cnt_dcreated int(11) cnt_dmodified int(11) cnt_status int(11) - Tables for Codes
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key_code_id cod_name cod_color cod_title cod_description cod_author_id cod_dcreated cod_dmodified cod_status - 54. pln_plan_code
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key_patient_id pnt_first pnt_last pnt_sex pnt_age pnt_dob pnt_race pnt_address pnt_city pnt_state pnt_complaint pnt_presenting pnt_meds pnt_presentillness pnt_historymed pnt_historysoc pnt_exam pnt_pulse pnt_resp pnt_bp pnt_temp pnt_spo2 pnt_author_id pnt_dcreated pnt_dmodified pnt_status - 1. Introduction
- This section will provide usage scenarios for the LiveProcess platform.
- Key features of LiveProcess include:
- 1. Easily create, maintain and update an accurate, current and facility specific all-hazards HEICS-based plan.
- 2. Provide a clear understanding of potential roles and responsibilities in any incident as well as reports that is so simple anyone can be an incident commander.
- 3. Provide role-specific, immediate 24/7 secure access anywhere to the most current plan and real-time response activation.
- 4. Ability to quantify actual and potential losses and therefore value the mitigation effort.
- 5. Reduce time away from the worksite for training.
- 6. Ability to more quickly develop a broad range of customized drills.
- 7. Effectively and efficiently integrate into regional plan without rewriting your facility's plan.
- 2. Documentation of Usage Scenarios
- 2.1 S1 Create New Plan
- 2.1.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to create an emergency management plan for his facility and have it available online for authorized users to view.
- 2.1.2 Description
- To create a new plan, the user would log into LiveProcess, click on the “PLAN” tab, and then on the “Create New Plan” link as illustrated in
FIG. 1 . This would bring up the “Add New Plan” page, where the user would fill in a filename, title, description, and version number for the plan and then click “Submit.” A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 20 . - 2.2 S2 Select Plan/Open Plan
- 2.2.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to select and open an existing emergency management plan for his facility so that he can view and edit the content.
- 2.2.2 Description
- To select and open a previously saved version of a plan, the user would click on the “PLAN” tab. This would bring up the plan main page, where he could view a list of available plans, categorized into sections entitled “Your Plans” and “Group Plans.” To open a plan, he would click on the plan title, as illustrated in
FIG. 2 . This would bring up the plan details page shown inFIG. 3 . A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 21 . - 2.3 S3 Add a Policy
- 2.3.1 Scenario Definition
- The user wishes to add a policy to his emergency management plan. He may already have the policy content in a Microsoft Word document or an Adobe Acrobat PDF but would like it to be available online at LiveProcess where authorized users may access it.
- 2.3.2 Description
- Once a user has created a plan, he is able to add policies to it. To add a policy, the user would click on the “PLAN” tab, select and open a plan, and then click on the “Add a Policy” link located on the plan details page, as illustrated in
FIG. 3 . This would take the user to the “Add Code” page, shown inFIG. 4 , where he would input a title and description for the policy. The “Add Code” page also enables him to indicate whether the policy is an “Active Policy” and/or a “Shared Policy.” After filling in the information, the user would click “Submit” to save the new policy. Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 22 and 23 . - 2.4 S4 Import a Policy
- 2.4.1 Scenario Definition
- The user wishes to import a policy created by another hospital or user, into his own emergency management plan.
- 2.4.2 Description
- When a user adds a policy to his plan, he has the option to make it private or to share the policy with other users of LiveProcess. If a policy has been made public, other users may import it into their own plans. To import a policy, the user would click on the “PLAN” tab, select and open a plan, and then click on the “Import a Policy” link located on the plan details page, as illustrated in
FIG. 5 . This would take the user to the “Policy Search” page, shown inFIG. 6 , where he would input keywords to search for a policy. After hitting “Search” the user will see a list of search results. He would then click on one of the policies to view it, as shown inFIG. 7 . To import the policy into his plan, he would click on the “Attach (Policy Name)” link. The policy would immediately be added to his plan, where he could edit it to make it specific to his facility. Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 24-26 . - 2.5 S5 Add Segment
- 2.5.1 Scenario Definition
- The user would like to add a segment, or section, to a policy in his emergency management plan.
- 2.5.2 Description
- To add a segment or section to a policy, the user would click on the relevant policy, and then click on “Edit” as shown in
FIG. 8 . This would take him to the policy details page where he would click “Add Segment” as shown inFIG. 9 . This would take him to the “Add Segment” page, shown inFIG. 10 , where he would type or paste in the text of his policy segment, and then click “Submit.” Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 27-29 . - 2.6 S6 Add Comment
- 2.6.1 Scenario Definition
- The user wishes to post a comment on a particular policy, segment of a policy, or procedure. He wishes to send this comment to certain members of his emergency planning committee and have it time/date stamped.
- 2.6.2 Description
- In order to post a comment, the user would first select the relevant policy, segment, or procedure, and then click “Comment,” as show in
FIG. 11 . This would take him to the “Comment” page, shown inFIG. 12 , where he could choose to comment on the entire policy or a particular segment of the policy. The user would then type in his comment or question into the “Message” box, select which committee members should receive his comment, and then click “Submit.” Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 30-31 . - In the example in
FIG. 12 above, the user is posting a comment on the “Donning Protective Clothing” segment of the “Code Triage—Code C (Chemical) policy. Specifically, he is asking whether staff will be using “Tyvek suits with booties.” He has selected that this question be sent to members of his “Emergency Planning” and “Hazmat Committees.” - 2.7 S7 Respond to Comment
- 2.7.1 Scenario Definition
- A user or emergency planning committee member wishes to view and respond to comments posted on the plan.
- 2.7.2 Description
- When a comment is posted on a policy, members of the selected committees receive an email indicating a comment has been made. When the committee members log into LiveProcess, they will be able to view the comment by clicking on “Your Task List.” In the example shown in
FIG. 13 , a person named “Sue Demo” who is a member of the “Emergency Planning” committee has logged in and clicked on “Your Task List.” She can now view a list of Tasks or Comments. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 32 . - When “Sue Demo” clicks on a Comment title, she is taken to the “Comment page” where she can view the comment and respond to it by typing into the Message box and clicking “Submit.” In the example shown in
FIG. 14 , “Sue Demo” has responded to the comment by indicating what type of Tyvek suit staff will be using. Every comment and response is time date stamped, so that a complete record of communication is kept for accrediting agencies such as JCAHO. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 33 . - 2.8 S8 Add a Procedure
- 2.8.1 Scenario Definition
- The user would like to add a procedure to his emergency management plan.
- 2.8.2 Description
- The user would like to quickly view and access the parts of his emergency plan policies that are procedures. This is done via the Procedures page. The user can add a procedure to this page by tagging it within his policies. To do this, the user would select the policy that contains the procedure, as shown in
FIG. 15 . The user would then put a check next to the option “Is a Procedure for this Code” as shown inFIG. 16 . Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 34-35 . - After clicking Submit, the procedure selected will then appear on the Procedures page as show in
FIG. 17 . A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 36 . - 2.9 S9 View HVA
- 2.9.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to view the HVA (Hazard Vulnerability Analysis) for his facility.
- 2.9.2 Description
- A user would be able to view the HVA for his facility by clicking on the “PLAN” tab and then “HVA.” This would display a standard Kaiser model of the facility's HVA as shown in
FIG. 18 . A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 37 . - 2.10 S10 Create/Edit HVA
- 2.10.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to create or edit the HVA (Hazard Vulnerability Analysis) for his facility.
- 2.10.2 Description
- A user would be able to create or edit the HVA for his facility by clicking on the “PLAN” tab, selecting “HVA,” and then clicking either “Normal View” or “Expert View.” Clicking “Normal View” presents the HVA in questionnaire format as shown in
FIG. 19 . Clicking on “Expert View” presents the HVA in grid format as shown inFIG. 20 . Either format allows the user to edit the information. As soon as new data is entered and submitted, the “Risk” column in the HVA is automatically recalculated. Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 38-39 . - 2.11 S11 View Resources
- 2.11.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to view the resources available to his facility.
- 2.11.2 Description
- A user would be able to view the resources for his facility by clicking on the “PLAN” tab and then “Resources.” This would display a list of all resources relevant to his facility, as shown in
FIG. 21 . The user can zoom in to resources beginning with a particular letter by clicking on the alphabet bar header at the top of the page. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 40 . - 2.12 S12 Create Resource
- 2.12.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to create or add new resources to the resource list in his plan.
- 2.12.2 Description
- To add a new resource to his plan, the user would click on the PLAN tab, Resources, and then “Create Resource” as shown in
FIG. 22 . This would take him to the “Create Resource” page shown inFIG. 23 , where he would enter the name, address, and contact info for the resource. Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 41-42 . - 2.13 S13 Import Resource
- 2.13.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to import a resource, from the existing LiveProcess database of resources, into his plan.
- 2.13.2 Description
- A user has the option to create his own resources or to import resources into his plan from the LiveProcess database of resources. To import a resource, he would click on the PLAN tab>Resources>Import a Resource, as shown in
FIG. 24 . A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 43 . - After clicking on “Import Resource,” the user is taken to the “Resource Search” page, shown in
FIG. 25 . From here, he would click on the state in which he would like to locate an import a resource. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 44 . - For example, if the user clicked on California, the “Search Results” page, shown in
FIG. 26 , would display all the California resources available in the LiveProcess Resource Database. From there, the user would simply click on a resource to add it to his plan. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 45 . - 2.14 S14 Create EPC
- 2.14.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to set up his emergency planning committees (EPC) in LiveProcess so that he can submit plans for review and approval.
- 2.14.2 Description
- A user is able to set up his EPCs by clicking on HOME>EPC. This takes him to the EPC Creator page shown in
FIG. 27 . From here the user has two options, he can use the LiveProcess EPC template, which automatically sets up 7 blank committees, or he can create a custom EPC. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 46 . - If the user chooses “Custom EPC,” he is presented with the “Create New EPC” page shown in
FIG. 28 . A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 47 . - 2.15 S15 Edit EPC
- 2.15.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to edit his emergency planning committees (EPC) in LiveProcess. For example, he may want to remove some people from an EPC.
- 2.15.2 Description
- To edit an EPC, the user would click on HOME>EPC and then click on the title of the committee he would like to change. This brings up the page shown in
FIG. 29 . From here, he can choose to “Add User” or “Remove User.” A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 48 . - If the User clicks on “Remove User,” he is taken to the page shown in
FIG. 30 . From here, he simply clicks on the name of the user he would like to remove. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 49 . - 2.16 S16 Map of Region
- 2.16.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to view a map showing his facility and local region.
- 2.16.2 Description
- To view a map showing his facility and local region, the user would click on HOME>Map. He would automatically be shown a map specific to his region, as shown in
FIG. 31 . This is based on his login. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 50 . - 2.17 S17 Mapping Hazards
- 2.17.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to have a visual way to assess which hazard types pose a risk in a particular region or across the United States.
- 2.17.2 Description
- A user may gather historical hazard incident data by using the GIS MAP located on the HOME tab of LiveProcess. For example, the user could select “hail” from the “Hazard Type” picklist as shown in
FIG. 32 . A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 51 . - After selecting “Hail” as Hazard Type and “Number of Events” as Data Type, the user would click “Submit.” The map would then automatically change to a color-coded display indicating the incidence of hail throughout the region, as shown in
FIG. 33 . (Red=High, Orange=Moderate, Yellow=Low) A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 52 . - 2.18 S18 Mapping Resource Types
- 2.18.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to have a visual way to view the types of resources located in a particular region or across the United States.
- 2.18.2 Description
- A user may gather info on available resources by using the GIS MAP located on the HOME tab of LiveProcess. As shown in
FIG. 34 , the “Resource Type” picklist contains options such as Fire Depts., Pharmaceuticals, Ventilators, and Water. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 53 . - 2.19 S19 ICS View
- 2.19.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to view the ICS (Incident Command System) or HEICS (Hospital Incident Command System) structure used by his facility. This includes a listing of all roles and associated responsibilities.
- 2.19.2 Description
- To view the ICS structure for his facility, the user would click on the PLAN tab, select a plan, and then click on ICS. This would bring up a page displaying all 49 of the standard HEICS roles. The standard view, shown in
FIG. 35 , displays each position title. The Crosswalk view, shown inFIG. 36 , displays each position title and the name of the person assigned to the position. Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 54-55 . - 2.20 S20 ICS Job Action Sheet
- 2.20.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to view the job action sheet (JAS) associated with a specific role in the incident command system (ICS).
- 2.20.2 Description
- To view role-specific job action sheets, the user would click on ICS, and then click on one of the 49 position titles. If a JAS has already been created, this would bring up the role details page, shown in
FIG. 37 . From there, the user would click on the link under “Job Action Sheets.” This would automatically open a new web browser displaying the Job Action Sheet, shown inFIG. 38 . Corresponding screenshots are shown inFIGS. 56-57 . - As shown in
FIG. 38 , the Job Action Sheet autofills in the name of the person who has been assigned the position. If there is a “Reports to” person, that name will be autofilled in as well, based on assignments made by the user. - 2.21 S21 ICS Custom Job Action Sheet
- 2.21.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to create a custom job action sheet for a specific role in the incident command system (ICS).
- 2.21.2 Description
- To create a custom job action sheets, the user would click on ICS, and then click on one of the 49 position titles. If no JAS has been created yet for the role, this would bring up the role details page, shown in
FIG. 39 . From there, the user has the choice to either “Create a standard HEICS-based Job Action Sheet” or “Create a Job Action Sheet using the Job Action Sheet Wizard.” A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 58 . - 2.22 S22 ICS Forms
- 2.22.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to view the standard forms associated with a specific role in the incident command system (ICS).
- 2.22.2 Description
- To view the standard HEICS forms associated with a role, the user would click on the links located under “Forms” on the role detail page. This would automatically open a new web page displaying the selected form, as shown in
FIG. 40 . A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 59 . - 2.23 S23 Community
- 2.23.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to communicate with other emergency management professionals in a secure online forum.
- 2.23.2 Description
- To communicate with other members of the LiveProcess community, the user would click on the Community tab. This would display the Community page shown in
FIG. 41 . In Community, the user can access various online discussion forums. The user may post comments, polls, file attachments, and links in the online discussion forums. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 60 . - 2.24 S24 Reference
- 2.24.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to search and view reference materials provided by other emergency management professionals.
- 2.24.2 Description
- To search and view reference materials posted by other LiveProcess members, the user would click on the REFERENCE tab and type keywords into the search box. In the example shown in
FIG. 42 , the user has done a search on the keyword “decon.” To view one of the documents, the user would click “Import” and then choose to open or save the document to his computer. The Reference area contains many different file types, including MS Word docs, Excel files, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs. A corresponding screenshot is shown inFIG. 61 . - 2.25 S25 Publish
- 2.25.1 Scenario Definition
- A user wishes to publish reference materials so that they can be accessed by other emergency management professionals.
- 2.25.2 Description
- To publish reference materials so that other LiveProcess members may access them, the user would click on the PUBLISH tab, fill in the brief form describing the material, and then upload the file from his computer. The user may publish many different file types, including MS Word docs, Excel files, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs. A corresponding screenshot is shown in
FIG. 62 . - One preferred embodiment of the present invention is implemented via the source code in the accompanying Appendix.
- The present invention may be implemented with any combination of hardware and software. If implemented as a computer-implemented apparatus, the present present invention is implemented using means for performing all of the steps and functions described above.
- The present invention can be included in an article of manufacture (e.g., one or more computer program products) having, for instance, computer useable media. The media has embodied therein, for instance, computer readable program code means for providing and facilitating the mechanisms of the present invention. The article of manufacture can be included as part of a computer system or sold separately.
- It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes could be made to the embodiments described above without departing from the broad inventive concept thereof. It is understood, therefore, that this invention is not limited to the particular embodiments disclosed, but it is intended to cover modifications within the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Claims (42)
1. A computer-implemented method of providing emergency plans for a plurality of different facilities, wherein each of the facilities are entities that implement their respective emergency plans, when necessary, the method comprising:
(a) providing in electronic form an emergency plan for each facility, each emergency plan having a standardized format with a plurality of component parts, each emergency plan having at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities, wherein the plurality of component parts includes at least one of a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis, emergency policies, procedures that must be followed, available emergency resources, and an Incident Command System command structure;
(b) providing an electronic network which allows the plurality of different facilities to communicate with each other;
(c) at least some of the facilities using the electronic network to electronically share one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities with each other, wherein the electronic sharing is a sharing of at least one of the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis, emergency policies, procedures that must be followed, available emergency resources, and an Incident Command System command structure; and
(d) electronically importing selected content of the electronically shared one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plan of another facility into one or more component parts of the emergency plans of facilities that received the electronically shared component parts, wherein the electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans, and wherein the electronically imported content becomes part of the emergency plans of the facilities that received the electronically shared component parts.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the component parts of the emergency plan includes emergency policies, and step (c) further comprises:
(i) entering one or more search terms into a user interface,
(ii) via the electronic network, searching emergency plans of other facilities that contain the entered one or more search terms, and
(iii) displaying the search hits, and
step (d) further comprises electronically importing the emergency policy of a desired search hit into the emergency plan of the facility.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the search term is related to an emergency condition, and the imported emergency policy relates to the emergency condition.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic network is the internet or an intranet and the user interface is accessed via an internet web browser.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of component parts include emergency drill procedures.
6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
(e) one or more third-party entities electronically publishing information for incorporation into emergency plans of selected facilities; and
(f) at least some of the facilities being programmed to receive the published information and to electronically import and incorporate the published information into their respective emergency plans via the electronic network.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein textual material of an emergency plan constitutes the plan's policies, and one of the component parts of the emergency plan are the emergency plan procedures, the method further comprising:
(e) providing a user interface that allows sections of policies to be labeled as procedures, the user interface also allowing all previously identified procedures to be shown on a single listing for rapid review.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein a facility is a single facility entity.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein a facility is a network of related facility entities.
10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
(e) providing via the electronic network a geographic information system (GIS) data set; and
(f) projecting facility data onto the GIS data set, the facility data including the plurality of component parts of each emergency plan, wherein in step (c), the accessible component parts of the emergency plans are electronically shared by using the GIS data set that has the facility data projected thereon.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the component parts of the emergency plan includes emergency policies, and the method further comprises:
(e) each facility designating which emergency policies in their respective emergency plans are accessible to other facilities, wherein only emergency policies that are designated as being accessible to other facilities can be electronically shared and imported into another facility.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic sharing is an electronic exchanging among facilities.
13. An article of manufacture for providing emergency plans for a plurality of different facilities, wherein each of the facilities are entities that implement their respective emergency plans, when necessary, the article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions for performing a method comprising:
(a) providing in electronic form an emergency plan for each facility, each emergency plan having a standardized format with a plurality of component parts, each emergency plan having at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities, wherein the plurality of component parts includes at least one of a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis, emergency policies, procedures that must be followed, available emergency resources, and an Incident Command System command structure;
(b) providing an electronic network which allows the plurality of different facilities to communicate with each other;
(c) at least some of the facilities using the electronic network to electronically share one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities with each other, wherein the electronic sharing is a sharing of at least one of the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis, emergency policies, procedures that must be followed, available emergency resources, and an Incident Command System command structure; and
(d) electronically importing selected content of the electronically shared one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plan of another facility into one or more component parts of the emergency plans of facilities that received the electronically shared component parts, wherein the electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans, and wherein the electronically imported content becomes part of the emergency plans of the facilities that received the electronically shared component parts.
14. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein one of the component parts of the emergency plan includes emergency policies, and step (c) further comprises:
(i) entering one or more search terms into a user interface,
(ii) via the electronic network, searching emergency plans of other facilities that contain the entered one or more search terms, and
(iii) displaying the search hits, and
step (d) further comprises electronically importing the emergency policy of a desired search hit into the emergency plan of the facility.
15. The article of manufacture of claim 14 wherein the search term is related to an emergency condition, and the imported emergency policy relates to the emergency condition.
16. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein the electronic network is the internet or an intranet and the user interface is accessed via an internet web browser.
17. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein the plurality of component parts include emergency drill procedures.
18. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein the computer-executable instructions perform a method further comprising:
(e) one or more third-party entities electronically publishing information for incorporation into emergency plans of selected facilities; and
(f) at least some of the facilities being programmed to receive the published information and to electronically import and incorporate the published information into their respective emergency plans via the electronic network.
19. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein textual material of an emergency plan constitutes the plan's policies, and one of the component parts of the emergency plan are the emergency plan procedures, and wherein the computer-executable instructions perform a method further comprising:
(e) providing a user interface that allows sections of policies to be labeled as procedures, the user interface also allowing all previously identified procedures to be shown on a single listing for rapid review.
20. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein a facility is a single facility entity.
21. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein a facility is a network of related facility entities.
22. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein the computer-executable instructions perform a method further comprising:
(e) providing via the electronic network a geographic information system (GIS) data set; and
(f) projecting facility data onto the GIS data set, the facility data including the plurality of component parts of each emergency plan, wherein in step (c), the accessible component parts of the emergency plans are electronically shared by using the GIS data set that has the facility data projected thereon.
23. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein one of the component parts of the emergency plan includes emergency policies, and the computer-executable instructions perform a method further comprising:
(e) each facility designating which emergency policies in their respective emergency plans are accessible to other facilities, wherein only emergency policies that are designated as being accessible to other facilities can be electronically shared and imported into another facility.
24. The article of manufacture of claim 13 wherein the electronic sharing is an electronic exchanging among facilities.
25. A computer-implemented method of providing emergency plans for a plurality of different facilities, wherein each of the facilities are entities that implement their respective emergency plans, when necessary, the method comprising:
(a) providing in electronic form an emergency plan for each facility, each emergency plan having a standardized format with a plurality of component parts, each emergency plan having at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities;
(b) providing an electronic network which allows the plurality of different facilities to communicate with each other;
(c) at least some of the facilities using the electronic network to electronically share one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities with each other; and
(d) electronically importing selected content of the electronically shared one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plan of another facility into one or more component parts of the emergency plans of facilities that received the electronically shared component parts, wherein the electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans, and wherein the electronically imported content becomes part of the emergency plans of the facilities that received the electronically shared component parts.
26. The method of claim 25 further comprising:
(e) one or more third-party entities electronically publishing information for incorporation into emergency plans of selected facilities; and
(f) at least some of the facilities being programmed to receive the published information and to electronically import and incorporate the published information into their respective emergency plans via the electronic network.
27. The method of claim 25 wherein the electronic sharing is an electronic exchanging among facilities.
28. An article of manufacture for providing emergency plans for a plurality of different facilities, wherein each of the facilities are entities that implement their respective emergency plans, when necessary, the article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions for performing a method comprising:
(a) providing in electronic form an emergency plan for each facility, each emergency plan having a standardized format with a plurality of component parts, each emergency plan having at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities, wherein the plurality of component parts includes at least one of a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis, emergency policies, procedures that must be followed, available emergency resources, and an Incident Command System command structure;
(b) providing an electronic network which allows the plurality of different facilities to communicate with each other;
(c) at least some of the facilities using the electronic network to electronically share one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities with each other, wherein the electronic sharing is a sharing of at least one of the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis, emergency policies, procedures that must be followed, available emergency resources, and an Incident Command System command structure; and
(d) electronically importing selected content of the electronically shared one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plan of another facility into one or more component parts of the emergency plans of facilities that received the electronically shared component parts, wherein the electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans, and wherein the electronically imported content becomes part of the emergency plans of the facilities that received the electronically shared component parts.
29. The article of manufacture of claim 28 wherein the computer-executable instructions perform a method further comprising:
(e) one or more third-party entities electronically publishing information for incorporation into emergency plans of selected facilities; and
(f) at least some of the facilities being programmed to receive the published information and to electronically import and incorporate the published information into their respective emergency plans via the electronic network.
30. The article of manufacture of claim 28 wherein the electronic sharing is an electronic exchanging among facilities.
31. A computer-implemented method of providing emergency plans for a plurality of different facilities, wherein each of the facilities are entities that implement their respective emergency plans, when necessary, the method comprising:
(a) providing in electronic form an emergency plan for each facility, each emergency plan having a standardized format with a plurality of component parts, each emergency plan having at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities;
(b) providing an electronic network which allows the plurality of different facilities to communicate with each other;
(c) at least some of the facilities using the electronic network to electronically share one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities with each other;
(d) one or more third-party entities electronically publishing information for incorporation into emergency plans of selected facilities; and
(e) at least some of the facilities being programmed to receive the published information and to electronically import and incorporate the published information into their respective emergency plans via the electronic network, wherein the electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans, and wherein the electronically imported information becomes part of the emergency plans of the facilities that received the information.
32. The method of claim 31 wherein the electronic sharing is an electronic exchanging among facilities.
33. The method of claim 31 wherein a facility is a single facility entity.
34. The method of claim 31 wherein a facility is a network of related facility entities.
35. The method of claim 31 further comprising:
(f) providing via the electronic network a geographic information system (GIS) data set; and
(g) projecting facility data onto the GIS data set, the facility data including the plurality of component parts of each emergency plan, wherein in step (c), the accessible component parts of the emergency plans are electronically shared by using the GIS data set that has the facility data projected thereon.
36. The method of claim 31 wherein one of the component parts of the emergency plan includes emergency policies, and the method further comprises:
(f) each facility designating which emergency policies in their respective emergency plans are accessible to other facilities, wherein only emergency policies that are designated as being accessible to other facilities can be electronically shared with another facility.
37. An article of manufacture for providing emergency plans for a plurality of different facilities, wherein each of the facilities are entities that implement their respective emergency plans, when necessary, the article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions for performing a method comprising:
(a) providing in electronic form an emergency plan for each facility, each emergency plan having a standardized format with a plurality of component parts, each emergency plan having at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities;
(b) providing an electronic network which allows the plurality of different facilities to communicate with each other;
(c) at least some of the facilities using the electronic network to electronically share one or more accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities with each other;
(d) one or more third-party entities electronically publishing information for incorporation into emergency plans of selected facilities; and
(e) at least some of the facilities being programmed to receive the published information and to electronically import and incorporate the published information into their respective emergency plans via the electronic network, wherein the electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans, and wherein the electronically imported information becomes part of the emergency plans of the facilities that received the information.
38. The article of manufacture of claim 37 wherein the electronic sharing is an electronic exchanging among facilities.
39. The article of manufacture of claim 37 wherein a facility is a single facility entity.
40. The article of manufacture of claim 37 wherein a facility is a network of related facility entities.
41. The article of manufacture of claim 37 wherein the computer-executable instructions perform a method further comprising:
(f) providing via the electronic network a geographic information system (GIS) data set; and
(g) projecting facility data onto the GIS data set, the facility data including the plurality of component parts of each emergency plan, wherein in step (c), the accessible component parts of the emergency plans are electronically shared by using the GIS data set that has the facility data projected thereon.
42. The method of claim 37 wherein one of the component parts of the emergency plan includes emergency policies, and the computer-executable instructions perform a method further comprising:
(f) each facility designating which emergency policies in their respective emergency plans are accessible to other facilities, wherein only emergency policies that are designated as being accessible to other facilities can be electronically shared with another facility.
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