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BCPWHO (Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership in the advancement of business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency management through collaboration and research. Founded in 2005 BCPWHO represents individual members from the healthcare industry across the United States, Canada and around the world.


 

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Business Continuity Management

Contingency planning and vital records protection for medical organizations
The advantages of digitized records management to a medical organization are many.

CIDRAP
Business Source Critical intelligence for preparedness, continuity and strategic planning.

Making the Case for an Interoperable, Multi-Scale Healthcare/Hospital Information Domain"

Disaster Recovery

Developing an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan
Any agency can be faced with having to deal with an internal or external disaster. For a PSAP, a disaster is any situation when there is an unanticipated loss of the ability to provide full service to both field units and the civilian population within the PSAP coverage area. This can range from the failure of a major system with insufficient redundancies, to a catastrophic event such as a fire.

"Guide to Test, Training, and Exercise Programs for IT Plans and Capabilities" Sponsored by DHS

IT manual for hospitals
This Guidebook provides a process to develop a fully functional EMP and contains extensive examples of plans, policies, contingencies and potential solutions for problems that every VAMC may face.


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VAROLII INTRODUCES INDUSTRY’S FIRST COMPLETE SUITE OF WORKFORCE CONTINUITY APPLICATIONS View>>

CBN Report: ASPR Makes First Playbook Available http://www.hhs.gov/disasters/discussion/planners/playbook/

For those of you who have requested an RSS Feed for Big Med Updates… RSS 2.0: The feeds below allow you to read new topics or new messages from this group with any feed reading software. When a regularly updated site such as a Google Group has a feed, people can subscribe to it using software for reading syndicated content called a "newsreader." RSS and Atom are two formats for feeds. Most feed readers support both. http://groups.google.com/group/big-medicine/feeds?hl=en

Survey on Healthcare Disaster Preparedness & Emergency Management Sponsored by the Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations (BCPWHO) *** Presentation can be found here>>***

Kings County recently released: http://www.kingcountyhcc.com/

Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response now produces a newsletter called The Preparedness Report. To subscribe send an email to them at center@ynhh.org.

Study confirms limited human-to-human spread of avian-flu virus in Indonesia in 2006 [Aug 29 Seattle WA USA] http://tinyurl.com/2j3bdu

The Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is now offering RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for new content and news items posted to its website, http://PHPartners.org. The PHPartners RSS feed will keep you informed about news in public health, upcoming meetings, and new public health online resources.
The PHPartners feed address is http://phpartners.org/rss_phpartners.xml. More information on how to subscribe to PHPartners RSS feeds is available at http://phpartners.org/rss_information.html.


Upcoming Events
 

2008 Continuity Insights Management Conference May 5th - 7th, 2008 Event to be held in New Orleans, LA
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10th Annual Midwest Emergency Preparedness & Response Conference May 7-9, 2008 Winnebago County Local Emergency Planning Committee Cliffbreakers Riverside Resort, Rockford, IL

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5th Information Security Expo May 14-16, 2008 Event to be held in Tokyo, Japan
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CPM 2008 WEST, Contingency Planning & Management. May 20-22, 2008 Held at The Mirage in Las Vegas, NV
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DEMEX 2008 May 20 - 23, 2008 Event to be held in Seoul, Korea.
2007 Conference Info (2008 Currently Unavailable)

World Disaster Response Summit May 30 - June 1, 2008 Event to be held in Atlanta, GA
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18th World Conference on Disaster Management June 15 - 18, 2008 Event to be held in Toronto, Ontario
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FRIAR 2008 July 2 - 3, 2008 Event to be held in London.
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Doctors for Disaster Preparedness 2008 Meeting—Mesa, Arizona: July 11-13, 2008.
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CICON 2008 August 25 - 27, 2008 Event to be held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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International Disaster and Risk Conference August 25-29, 2008 Event to be held in Davos, Switzerland.
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NEMA 2008 Annual Conference September 8 - 11, 2008 Event to be held in Portland, OR
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DRJ Fall World 2008 September 14-17, 2008 Event to be held in San Diego, CA More Information Soon

2008 CPO Conference September 29-30, 2008 Event to be held in Columbus, OH
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RISKCON TOKYO 2008 Oct 8 - 10, 2008 Event to be held in Tokyo
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BCI Symposium 2008 October 9 - 10, 2008 Event to be held in Brighton, UK More Information TBA

ISSC Resilience Summit 2008 October 13 - 14, 2008 Event to be held in New York, NY
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2008 Canadian Industrial Emergency Conference & Expo October 15 - 16, 2008 Event to be held in Alberta, Canada
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