Each year, the EENA Conference brings together European emergency
services, public authorities, researchers and industry representatives
from all over Europe and beyond! About 500 delegates from more than 50 countries are expected at the EENA Conference which is an action packed 3 days of information sharing, discussions and debates.
IMPRESS Project Blogspot IMPRESS aims to advance the preparedness of emergency medical services (ambulance dispatch centers, hospitals, volunteer communities etc) in numerous ways, including through planning for all-hazards, increasing surge capacity, tracking the availability of beds and other resources using electronic systems, and developing systems that are interoperable with other response teams.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
'PEMEA Architecture' document published by EENA Technical Committee
There are presently hundreds of emergency calling applications in use
across Europe but none of them permit seamless roaming and so are
constrained in where they can be used.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Stronger EU response for medical emergencies
From 9 to 12 October 2015, civil protection teams from several EU
countries took part in a joint operation which aimed to reinforce the
capability of Europe to respond to medical emergencies.
Monday, October 26, 2015
The second meeting of IMPRESS project stakeholders took place in Dresden (12/10/2015)
The second
meeting of the IMPRESS consortium with the advisory board of experts and
project stakeholders (SAG) took place in Dresden, Germany the 12 of October
2015. The SAG meeting was organized by KEMEA and hosted by Fraunhofer IVI. Fifteen experts participated to the meeting
and contributed their expertise and experience concerning the operational
approach and the relative technical solution that is adopted by the consortium.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Italian user group meeting at Palermo (2/10/2015)
The Italian Council for Research (CNR)
organized on Friday, October 2 2015, in close collaboration with the Italian
Civil Protection (PCI), the first meeting
concerning the “Palermo Demo” of IMPRESS solution. The meeting held at the
facilities of CNR in Palermo.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
2nd Stakeholders Advisory Group Workshop
A European workshop (the second in a row of three) organized by the
IMPRESS consortium will take place at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Transportation and Infrastructure Systems in Dresden, Germany in
October, 12th of 2015.
Friday, August 21, 2015
Integration of volunteers and public: organisations and communication channels, possible functions, procedures
People affected by an extra-ordinary public health challenge
(EOPHC), e.g. in situations of mass emergencies or disasters, cannot be reduced
to the status of (passive) victims or to irrationally acting or panicking
crowds. Even a well-prepared and coordinated Health Emergency Management System
(HEMS) cannot control or anticipate the dynamics resulting from the decisions,
actions and reactions, needs, demands and perceptions, as well as of the
healthcare-seeking behaviour of people affected by an emergency. In a mass emergency, uninjured, slightly
injured, even some seriously injured survivors, their relatives present
on-scene as well as bystanders or witnesses do not passively wait for (external)
emergency assistance and the arrival of first responders. They take actions on
site and move to hospitals nearby or even further away. This behaviour adds
even more challenges to the health system and requires flexible adaptations in
the health response. Furthermore, events
resulting in an EOPHC do not only have adverse effects on the health status of
a community, but may - even temporarily - increase feelings and acts of
solidarity and incite collaborative attitudes, contributing to disaster
resilience.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Use Cases, Benchmarking and validation framework of IMPRESS
IMPRESS platform has to be measured through a set of use case scenarios. They offer the
opportunity for testing interoperability
between the IMPRESS components,
for filling the gap between business level (process models), technical level
(workflows definition, web-services implementation) and user requirements, and
for demonstration of a better communication between several
different organisations that
seek improved interoperability.
Monday, August 17, 2015
IMPRESS conducted an analysis of major threat scenarios and lessons learnt
The intention of the report is to identify and analyze
major threat scenarios for infectious diseases, releases of hazardous material
and major trauma events, where possible linking to real events with lessons
learned. Such events might be considered “Events of Public Health Concern”
(EoPHC) and the scenarios that exemplify them assist with the definition
of the scope of the IMPRESS toolbox. The risks posed by these threats on a nation’s
public health are explored.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
IMPRESS Reference Semantic Model
IMPRESS has produced a technical report regarding the Reference Semantic Model as well as the Data Harmonization and Linked Data Provision process. This is is a living document that will be updated and improved during
the progress of the IMPRESS Project and finally, delivered on March of
2016.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Common taxonomy and conceptual framework
As a first step for an "EU Common Response Framework for Health Services", IMPRESS has produced a report, proposing a general conceptual framework, which includes:
Monday, August 3, 2015
IMPRESS FP7 Project
There exists a huge variety in the occurrence and characteristics of major incidents. Incident management stakeholders and in particular emergency health service providers have to deal with two basic challenges: The disproportion between the needs and the available human/material resources in the response capacity and the inherent time constraints of an emergency. These critical factors play a seminal role in the decision-making process during a crisis event, which affects all levels of command & control (strategic, operational, tactical). The drawback with current health emergency management systems lies with the command & control operations that should coordinate the actions of the separate services and turn them into an effective, multi-faceted crisis response mechanism.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Modelling and Simulation for Major Incidents
In recent years, there has been a rise in Major Incidents with
big impact on the citizens health and the society. Without the
possibility of conducting live experiments when it comes to physical
and/or toxic trauma, only an accurate in silico reconstruction allows us
to identify organizational solutions with the best possible chance of
success, in correlation with the limitations on available resources
(e.g. medical team, first responders, treatments, transports, and
hospitals availability) and with the variability of the characteristic
of event (e.g. type of incident, severity of the event and type of
lesions).
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