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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.

 
2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign

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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"

Emergency Management

Data indicate hospitals in seven U.S. cities could not handle terrorist attack. study of 34 hospitals shows emergency care systems would be stretched to the breaking point, and have no capacity to respond to a surge of victims

Full Interoperability Means More Than Just Voice Though voice communications have been the focus of interoperability funding since 9/11, state homeland security programs are beginning to expand their focus to include data and information.

Planning for a Possible Influenza Pandemic - A Framework for Planners Preparing to Manage Deaths

WHO and PAHO are partnering with UN/ISDR on a global campaign to reduce disaster vulnerability in health facilities. Launched on January 25, the "Hospitals Safe from Disasters" campaign will focus on structural safety of hospitals and health facilities, on keeping health facilities functioning during and after disasters, and on making sure health workers are prepared to deal with the health impact of emergencies...

 

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/

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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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Emergency Management and Homeland Security Symposium June 18, 2008 New York, NY
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FRIAR 2008 July 2 - 3, 2008 Event to be held in London.
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International CRED Summer Course 2008: Assessing Public Health in Emergency Situations--Brussels, Belgium: July 7- 18, 2008. This two-week intensive course is designed to familiarize professionals with epidemiological techniques that will help determine the impacts of disasters and conflicts. The course will introduce participants to the methods and tools used in the context of humanitarian emergencies. The course will also include different uses of quantitative tools for the assessment of health needs in populations affected by catastrophic events.
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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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National Pediatric Trauma and Disaster Services Summit- Los Angeles, California: September 11-12, 2008. This summit will bring together more than 500 people from across the country to discuss the current state of pediatric emergency services and disaster preparedness nationwide, determine and deliberate about successes and challenges facing trauma networks, develop consensus around pediatric trauma and disaster research, and discuss trends disaster communication and logistics support technology.
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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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