Common Operating Picture. HPP and PHEP awardees must work together to establish a common operating picture, or situational awareness tool, that facilitates coordinated information sharing among all public health, health care, HCCs, and relevant stakeholders. This includes state, local and territorial public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and programs addressing healthcare-acquired infections. Information sharing is the ability to share real-time information related to the emergency, such as capacity, capability, and stress on health care facilities and situational awareness across the various response organizations and levels of government. Accomplishing these activities will enable the health care delivery systems, public health, and other organizations that contribute to responses to coordinate efforts before, during, and after emergencies; maintain situational awareness; and effectively communicate with the public. Given the need to establish a common operating picture for effective response, HPP and PHEP awardees and HCCs must provide situational awareness data, including data on bed availability, to ASPR and CDC during emergency response operations and at other times, as requested. Additionally, HPP and PHEP awardees, the HCCs, and their members must agree to participate in current and future federal health care situational awareness initiatives for the duration of the five-year project period.
Common Operating Picture a. Sub-recipients will work together to establish a common operating picture, or situational awareness tool, that facilitates coordinated information sharing among all public health, health care, HCCs, and relevant stakeholders. This includes state, local, and tribal public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and programs addressing health care-acquired infections. Information sharing is the ability to share real-time information related to the emergency, such as capacity, capability, and stress on health care facilities and situational awareness across the various response organizations and levels of government. Accomplishing these activities will enable the health care delivery systems, public health, and other organizations that contribute to responses to coordinate efforts before, during, and after emergencies; maintain situational awareness; and effectively communicate with the public.
