Medworxx, the makers of a strategic software platform that hospitals use to communicate, aggregate, and analyze knowledge, is excited to announce that Sherman Hospital is using the Medworxx Policy & Procedure Management System to manage their physician order sets, protocols and policies and procedures.

A number of Incident Annexes of the National Response Plan (NRP) were recently updated by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. The Incident Annexes address contingency or hazard situations requiring specialized application of the NRP.

This "Red Letter Scenario" is part of a series of tabletop scenarios the Borough of Manhattan Community College has developed as part of their all-hazards emergency response plan.

Evaluation system developed by FEMA

It hasn’t been business as usual for federal agencies responding to this summer’s wave of natural disasters.

The new National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) , which was released last month is definitely a work in progress.

Within seconds of arriving at the overturned bus along U.S. 75, Sherman police Sgt. Stephen Dean grasped the size of what emergency responders were facing.

Today, officials said they will use the region’s federal homeland security funds for medical and law enforcement projects to detect and respond to terror attacks.

This paper reviews the status of efforts to develop the capacity and capabilities of the health care system to respond to disasters and other mass casualty events.

For county emergency officials, it's only a matter of a time until they'll need to use the county's emergency and disaster plan in the event of a natural disaster, pandemic influenza or biological or chemical attack.