Strengthen Information Management. Recipients must plan and coordinate critical information sharing among public health agency staff and ensure coordination across governments. Jurisdictional governments must work together as appropriate, with key partners, the public, health care and other providers including, but not limited to, clinicians. This includes developing, coordinating, and disseminating information, alerts, warnings, and notifications regarding risks and self-protective measures to the public, particularly with at-risk and vulnerable populations, and incident management responders. CDC suggests that jurisdictions consider targeting at a minimum, the public, travelers, and clinicians when developing the information sharing and risk communication messaging activities. Informing the public about PHEs is a critical component of a response. Following are specific activities to consider. • As appropriate for the funded PHE, work with clinicians and other health care partners to mitigate the impact of the PHEs including the implementation of processes that indicate how health care providers in the jurisdiction can exchange information with electronic public health case reporting systems, syndromic surveillance systems, or immunization registries according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record Incentive Program rules and any additional applicable federal standards • Coordinate with CDC, jurisdictional public health officials, and other stakeholders to ensure jurisdictional personnel have the most up-to-date information on the specific emergency. If the health department is not responsible for key activities, the health department should ensure that the IMS structure and plans include communication and coordination with those other departments (e.g., with public health emergency management officials for emergencies such as pandemic events, etc.). • Initiate a communications campaign to raise public awareness of PHEs funded under this NOFO. Primary messaging should focus on awareness and specific actions the public can take to protect themselves. Work with key partners and stakeholders to coordinate communication messages, products, and programs for affected communities, travelers, and clinicians. • Update scripts for jurisdictional call centers with specific PHE messaging, including alerts, warnings, and notifications, relevant to the funded emergency and engage trusted community representatives in developing the material to ensure messages are...
Strengthen Information Management. EMRESOURCEs and eICS ADDITIONAL
Strengthen Information Management. Activity 1. Share Situational Awareness across Health Care and Public Health
Strengthen Information Management. Information management is the ability to develop and maintain systems and procedures that facilitate the communication of timely, accurate, and accessible information, alerts, and warnings using a whole community approach. It also includes the ability to exchange health information and situational awareness with federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments and partners. Associated Capabilities • Capability 4: Emergency Public Information and Warning • Capability 6: Information Sharing
Strengthen Information Management. Recipients must plan and coordinate critical information sharing among public health agency staff, and ensure coordination across governments (i.e., jurisdictional governments must work together as appropriate, with healthcare providers including, but not limited to, clinicians, key partners, and the public). This includes developing, coordinating, and disseminating information, alerts, warnings, and notifications regarding risks and self-protective measures to the public, particularly with at-risk and vulnerable populations, and incident management responders. CDC suggests that jurisdictions consider targeting at a minimum, the public, travelers, and clinicians when developing the information sharing and risk communication messaging activities. Informing the public about public health emergencies is a critical component of a response. Following are specific activities to consider: As appropriate for the funded public health emergency, work with clinicians and other healthcare partners to mitigate the impact of the public health emergencies including the implementation of processes that indicate how healthcare providers in the jurisdiction shall be able to exchange information with electronic public health case-reporting systems, syndromic surveillance systems, or immunization registries according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record Incentive Program rules and any additional applicable federal standards Coordinate with CDC, state, tribal, local, and territorial public health officials, and other stakeholders to ensure jurisdictional personnel have the most up-to-date information on the specific emergency. If the health department is not responsible for key activities, the health department should ensure that the IMS structure and plans include communication and coordination with those other departments (e.g., with public health emergency management officials for emergencies such as pandemic events, etc.). Initiate a communications campaign to raise public awareness of public health emergencies funded under this NOFO. Primary messaging should focus on awareness, and specific actions the public can take to protect themselves. Work with key partners and stakeholders to coordinate communication messages, products, and programs for affected communities, travelers, and clinicians. Update scripts for jurisdictional call centers with specific public health emergency messaging (alerts, warnings, and notifications...
Strengthen Information Management. 1. The Provider shall use the situational awareness software provided by the Department to coordinate response efforts and information sharing among relevant stakeholders during designated exercises, major incidents, or mass casualty events. This task shall be completed throughout the term of the Agreement.
2. The Provider shall sustain or enhance public health informatics to increase interoperability and functionality by:
a. Registering, at a minimum, two staff members on the Pennsylvania Health Alert Network (PA HAN) by Aug. 31, 2020, and maintaining at least two staff members on the PA HAN throughout the term of the Agreement; and
b. Participating in, at a minimum, four Department initiated interoperable communication radio system drills, at least one drill per quarter. Dates will be determined by the Department. This task shall be completed throughout the term of theAgreement.
3. The Provider shall work with its jurisdictional HCC and its community’s Joint Information Center to maintain a plan that contains accurate, consistent, linguistically and culturally appropriate information, and disseminated to the community using one voice during an emergency. The plan shall address:
a. Redundant equipment;
b. Appropriately trained public information officers and other personnel;
c. Procedures for media notification;
d. Message development; and
e. A process describing how the public can acquire up-to-date information on incidents.
4. The Provider shall perform periodic call-down drills to measure readiness and response of pre-identified public health staff and key City staff during a “no-notice” emergency activation. This task shall be completed throughout the term of the Agreement.
5. The Provider shall work with the York City EMA to disseminate public information via e-newsletters and social media. This task shall be completed throughout the term of the Agreement.
Strengthen Information Management. Information management is the ability to develop and maintain systems and procedures that facilitate the communication of timely, accurate, and accessible information, alerts, and warnings using a whole community approach. It also includes the ability to exchange health information and situational awareness with federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments and partners. Associated Capabilities ● Capability 4: Emergency Public Information and Warning ● Capability 6: Information Sharing Domain Activity: Coordinate Information Sharing Deliverable Applies To Due Date Have or have access to communication systems that maintain or improve reliable, resilient, interoperable, and redundant information and communication systems and platforms. Such systems, whether they are internally managed or externally hosted on shared platforms, must be capable of supporting syndromic surveillance, integrated surveillance, active and/or passive mortality surveillance, public health registries, situational awareness dashboards, and other public health and preparedness activities. Have plans in place that identify redundant communication platforms (primary and secondary) and a cycle of maintenance and testing of these platforms annually. 1. Testing of communication platforms. All PHEP Sub-Recipients 1. Once Annually Domain Activity: Coordinate Emergency Information and Warning Ensure that communication plans, if any, have processes for coordinating public messaging during infectious disease outbreaks and information sharing regarding monitoring and tracking of cases of persons under investigation to ensure maximum coordination and consistency of messaging. All PHEP Sub-Recipients 1. As changes in personnel occur Countermeasures and mitigation is the ability to distribute, dispense, and administer medical countermeasures (MCMs) to reduce morbidity and mortality and to implement appropriate non-pharmaceutical and responder safety and health measures during response to a public health incident. Associated Capabilities ● Capability 8: Medical Countermeasure Dispensing and Administration ● Capability 9: Medical Materiel Management and Distribution ● Capability 11: Non-pharmaceutical Interventions ● Capability 14: Responder Safety and Health Domain Activity: Develop and Test MCM Distribution, Dispensing, and Vaccine Administration Plans Deliverable Applies To Due Date Plans that address MCM distribution, dispensing, and vaccine administration plans through development, tra...
