- Home
- » e-Newsletters
Georgia hospitals to be wired for disasters
Healthcare Security Weekly, December 19, 2005
The Georgia Hospital Association recently signed a $3.4 million deal with a software company to provide 150 acute-care hospitals in the state with emergency preparedness software, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
The company, LiveProcess, says Georgia will be the first state to have standardized emergency software for all of its acute care hospitals.
The software will allow hospitals to communicate with other hospitals during a disaster, allowing facilities to learn where to evacuate patients, how many beds are available, and to ask for volunteers.
The software also helps hospitals create an emergency management plan. LiveProcess will install the software for free, and the software fee comes from a $13.6 million bioterrorism grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- HealthDataInsights posts new issues for medical necessity claims
- Sneak Peek: Effort underway to establish caseload benchmarks
- Q/A: Coding for telescopic intraocular lens
- New FAQ posted on storing laryngoscope blades
- Tip: Perform your own internal investigation prior to government audit
- HIPAA 5010 deadline extended, but threat remains, says AMA
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- E-mailed
-
- Running an effective peer review committee meeting
- HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q/A: Coding for telescopic intraocular lens
- Q/A: Correct use of modifier -PT
- Tip: Correctly code bilateral pain management procedures
- "Wall fountains" may be spreading Legionnaires to patients, visitors
- 2012 CPT code changes for ASCs: Shoulder and knee scopes and pain management
- Searched