INVIZEONÂ’S CHAIN FEATURED AT BIO-TERRORISM DRILL
ATLANTA, September 20, 2002. Invizeon CorporationÂ’s Community Health Alert and Information Network (CHAIN) was the featured communications platform used during ER2002, a national emergency response and counter-terrorism training exercise in Atlanta, Georgia. CHAIN is designed to deliver real-time emergency information to all members of the emergency response and healthcare communities.
(PRWEB) October 9, 2002
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INVIZEONÂ’S CHAIN FEATURED AT BIO-TERRORISM DRILL
ATLANTA, September 20, 2002. Invizeon CorporationÂ’s Community Health Alert and Information Network (CHAIN) was the featured communications platform used during ER2002, a national emergency response and counter-terrorism training exercise in Atlanta, Georgia. CHAIN is designed to deliver real-time emergency information to all members of the emergency response and healthcare communities.
Atlanta area District III EMS, in collaboration with first responder agencies across Georgia coordinated one of the largest and most comprehensive emergency response training exercises in the country. Nearly 600 students and trainers representing fire, police, EMS, hospitals and public health participated in this event. Observers included local, state and federal elected officials, health agency managers, representatives from private industry as well as attendees from the Homeland Security Summit.
“The purpose of this exercise is to provide training opportunities which are not commonly available to first responders and to offer an opportunity for the various disciplines to train together. The large number of different training exercises in a relatively small area will give observers an unusual chance to see the scope of capabilities of our first responders.” said Dr. John Harvey, a local surgeon and the chief organizer of the event. “All reports are that the event was a big success.” continued Harvey “Invizeon's web based communication system, the CHAIN, allowed participants to keep up with exercise progress and showed the visitor tent the same information being relayed from the incident command post to the EOC.”
InvizeonÂ’s CHAIN facilitates the secure, rapid communication of priority health alert information and training directly to each communityÂ’s participants. CHAIN provides a means of investigation, identification, delivery and sharing of information. Participating user groups can include local, state and federal health agencies, medical society members, emergency responders, government entities, military and law enforcement, universities, hospitals/clinics, minority health organizations, pharmacies, veterinarians, dependent care facilities and related healthcare professionals.
The Invizeon CHAIN provides:
• a ready-made, standardized platform, configured to local requirements;
• a combined Public Health Directory (PHDIR) and Emergency Responder Directory (ERDIR), which complies with CDC and National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) specifications and provides the most current contact information available for all participants;
• a secure, centralized receiver/router of information;
• a broad library of current scientific, medical and bioterrorism information;
• real-time information flow to key participants – keeping the entire medical community literally on the same page during health alerts and on a daily basis;
• health alert priority standards and multiple delivery methods so important information is delivered when and where it is needed;
• the ability to sharpen a community’s vigilance in identifying symptoms and patterns of communicable disease, making earlier intervention possible; and
• a simple, yet secure integration of alert delivery systems.
The CHAIN uses state-of-the-art Internet technologies. Access to the CHAIN is via a secure Web portal that delivers the alert information and applications to the user. The system implements role-based access, distribution, verification and security on several levels. Specific alerts can be routed to, from and within specific user groups. CHAIN tracks all alerts either entered or delivered, any postings to the system, viewing times of posted alerts and user logons.
Alerts may be delivered in a variety of ways to the users of the system. Alerts and notices are always accessible via the Web portal. In addition, users may specify that alerts also be delivered via e-mail and/or fax, mobile phone, pager or personal digital assistant. Users may attach documents to alerts or publish documents directly to their constituents, allowing the free flow of complex information related to an alert.
All information within the CHAIN is indexed and cross-referenced for searchable access by the users. This includes all alerts as well as documents posted to the system either as an attachment to an alert or individually. As a result, users can search for archived information. The CHAIN allows users to instruct the system to search actively for new information and alerts and to notify them when additional information on a topic is published.
Every community faces one of the most critical issues confronting medicine nationally – the ability to communicate securely and rapidly with each and every healthcare practitioner and first responder in times of emergency or in the general day-to-day event. CHAIN can connect all entities that must receive critical, up-to-the-minute healthcare information. Through the system, all appropriate entities can share information in an emergency as frequently as the situation demands.
Invizeon Corporation is committed to providing the technology necessary to strengthen our nationÂ’s biodefence system. More importantly, Invizeon is committed to building the coalitions necessary to ensure that every healthcare and emergency response professional has access to vital information in real-time through the use of the latest technology platforms and delivery mechanisms.
