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. 

The first workshop of the project was held in Rome at the beginning of the project and provided inputs for the elaboration of IMPRESS taxonomies and the definition of the requirements of potential end users. During this second meeting, the IMPRESS system design which is based on the aforementioned contribution of the first workshop was discussed.  The participants discussed options and challenges of developing IMPRESS, based on the structure of the US originated ICS/EMS (developed to address management and response to large disasters) or elaborating more the approach considered in the European courses on Medical Response to Major Incidents (MRMI) which is fully adapted to major accidents.   

Detailed discussions and exchange of ideas with the experts focused to e-triage, information flow among relevant services and agencies, constraints and limitations of the emergency personnel to use electronic systems during response.

The conclusions of the second SAG meeting were further discussed and analyzed during the two days plenary meeting held the 13-14/10 also in Dresden.