New Alliance Announced at NACCHO Preparedness Summit Unites E-learning, Best Practices and Medical Preparedness Initiatives from USA Prepare and Previstar
USA Prepare, a division of MC Strategies, part of Elsevier Health Sciences and Previstar attending the NACCHO PHP Summit and will announce the formation of an alliance to offer emergency preparedness training and management for public health departments, healthcare and allied health fields.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 22, 2007
Previstar™ and USA Prepare have announced a partnership to provide leading-edge disaster preparedness software, best practices and skills development to public health departments, healthcare providers and allied health fields. USA Prepare brings to the alliance world-class expertise in public health and medical response in order to develop workforce preparedness through templates and e-learning. Previstar delivers a fully integrated information and resource management software platform to optimize planning, response and recovery for any health-related incident or event.
"Together we are able to deliver a system tailored to our public health and hospital clients which affords them practical public health templates for emergency response bolstered by practical, self-paced e-learning lessons to help prepare for all-hazards emergencies," said Tim Boone, PhD, Executive Director of USA Prepare.
USA Prepare provides clients with expertise in development and delivery of effective e-learning and efficient operations of Public Health Department Operations Centers. Training includes managing complex emergency, disaster and asymmetrical threats, including management of catastrophic casualty events and situations involving weapons of mass destruction. Training and exercises are offered for public health and medical professionals.
Previstar's Continual Preparedness System (CPS) is an intelligent resource and information management system that is optimized to meet the missions of Public Health and Medical organizations, including predictive resource modeling, surge capacity, volunteer coordination, strategic national stockpile, exercises and training, hospital ICS, epidemiology, mass care, and more.
"Previstar's Public Health Information Management System, developed with support from USA Prepare, offers the most comprehensive and practical system available," said Keith Stringfellow, President and CEO of Previstar. "When CPS is used in concert with USA Prepare's training system, they provide medical personnel with the knowledge and tools needed during complex emergencies and disasters," Stringfellow added.
"What this alliance offers is an ideal blend of experienced professionals in healthcare preparedness and outstanding technology," Stringfellow explained, "and it is what governments, institutions and businesses need to thoroughly prepare for whatever lies ahead."
About USA Prepare
USA Prepare (www. usaprepare. com) is the emergency preparedness unit of MC Strategies (mcstrategies. com). In July of 1995, MC Strategies became part of the Health Sciences division of Elsevier, publisher of Mosby and Saunders medical texts, as well as MD Consult and Nursing Consult online references.
USA Prepare provides web-based training featuring content created by experts and custom content developed to suit individual clients' needs. This is accomplished on a cost-effective and proven learning management system, the Knowledge Deployment System®, used in over 1200 healthcare facilities in the US.
About Previstar
Previstar (www. previstar. com) is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with its main research and development facility in Knoxville, Tennessee. Previstar provides a web-based, easy-to-use, automated software system that enables public health and medical officials to plan for, respond to and recover from any hazard, incident or event, and also to improve daily operations.
Previstar's Continual Preparedness System delivers a totally integrated intelligent resource and information management platform to dynamically direct the resources, tasks and relationships necessary to protect responders, citizens and property. It enables any jurisdiction or organization to become compliant with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and HICS guidelines.
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