Disaster Readiness: Process over Chaos
TeleTracking Health System Command Centers
Disasters range from hurricanes, tornadoes and fires, to floods, earthquakes, and mass casualty events, such as acts of terrorism. For healthcare professionals, and other first responders, that safe distance doesn’t exist—they are on the front lines of the most challenging situations imaginable—and how they perform can at the very least make a demanding situation more manageable, and at the very most save lives.
This story can be found in the Winter 2018 Issue of TeleTracking’s Patient Flow Quarterly Magazine. Download the full issue.
It’s during these events that the procedures these healthcare professionals practice day in and day out, are suddenly scaled—moving beyond process and evolving into the organizational backbone of a health system. And when those processes include an established patient flow strategy, scaling those processes to account for a large influx of patients (or mass exodus) or a different use of space becomes easier—bringing rapid, lifesaving care to patients, families and communities in a systematic manner.