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“For the first few hours, there was little information relayed from the scene to the hospitals about patient flow."

“The lack of medical patient information from authorities at the incident site frustrated efforts to plan ahead.”

Arlington County After-Action Report, Annex B for the Pentagon Attack on September 11th

PRACTITIONER PERSPECTIVES

Testimony within the Senate Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness Title: Public Health Preparedness in the 21st Century (March 28, 2006) -- Click here to listen to or read the statements from each expert below.

Richard Besser, MD, Director for CDC, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response
Michael C. Caldwell, MD, MPH, Commissioner of Health Dutchess County Health Department, Immediate Past President of the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)
Peggy Honore, DHA, MHA, Chief Science Officer, Senior Deputy Advisor, Mississippi State Department of Health
Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, Senior National Scientist and Paul O’Neil Alcoa Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND
Elin Gursky, ScD, Principal Deputy for Biodefense, National Strategies Support Director, ANSER
Tara O’Toole, MD, MPH, CEO and Director, Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Making the Case for an Interoperable, Multi-scale Hospital/ Healthcare Knowledge Domain
by Ric Skinner, M.S.
The above white paper includes a brief discussion about the need to make the connection between the IPTI and a national system for integration of hospitals.--Click here.

Emerging Trends and Issues in Health Information Exchange Selected findings from eHealth Initiative Foundation’s Second Annual Survey of State, Regional and Community-Based Health Information Exchange Initiatives and Organizations. --Click here.

CONGRESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Need for IT Revolution in Health Care Is Clear (March 10, 2006) By Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Special to Roll Call.--Click here to read the op-ed.

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COMCARE
PERSPECTIVES

Modernizing Emergency Response & Preparedness Through the Integrated Patient Tracking Initiative IAEM Bulletin, by Amy DuBrueler and Kelly McKellogg (July 2006) -- Click here

NDMS Patient Tracking Systems Presentation
Presented at NDMS by Sally Phillips, AHRQ; David Aylward, COMCARE
(April 26, 2006) -- Click here

Integrated Patient Tracking Initiative (IPTI) Offers New Data Source--Click here.

The Integrated Patient Tracking Initiative: A National Framework for Planning and Implementation
(April 12, 2006)
EIIP Forum -- Click here for the transcript.

Health Geographics for Patient and Victim Tracking During an Emergency Event (PDF) (April 6, 2006) Presented by Judith Woodhall at the Location Intelligence Conference 2006. -- View the presentation.