Disaster Planning Virtual Conference
Program originally recorded September 15 & 16, 2020
Virtual Session Recordings
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A+ After-Action Reports
2024 Disaster Conference
Discover practical strategies for leveraging resources, technology, and emergency management expertise to streamline the AAR writing process. From exercises to real-life incidents, learn how to transform insights gathered into actionable recommendations that enhance organizational resilience.
Cybersecurity for Health Care: Addressing the IT and Emergency Management Gap
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation covers best practices for integrating information security and emergency management professionals in planning and resiliency efforts against cyber threats posed against partners in the health care sector.
Fundamentals of Radiation Protection
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation aims to educate a diverse audience of hospital workers and professionals from various sectors on the principles of radiation safety. It covers historical developments, current regulatory standards, and best practices for minimizing occupational radiation exposure. The session will detail types of radiation, measurement units, and protective equipment, emphasizing the ALARA principle and current epidemiological findings. Additionally, the presentation will discuss OSHA standards, health effects from radiation exposures, scatter radiation related to pregnancy, and radiation in the military, airline, and manufacturing industries.
Test Your Hospital’s Cyber Readiness
2024 Disaster Conference
This session covers how to test your facility’s readiness for a cyber-attack. It discusses how one organization conducted a functional exercise to test response capabilities during a full network outage in an outpatient setting.
The Joint Commission Shares Best Practices for Accreditation Survey Process
2024 Disaster Conference
This session offers best practices to help hospitals prepare for the emergency management session included in the hospital accreditation survey process. The presentation also includes tips and actions for survey readiness, based on the most frequently cited emergency management standards.
Maui’s on Fire! The Coalition’s Emergency Response
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation explores the response of Hawaii Healthcare Emergency Management to the catastrophic Maui wildfire. The session outlines strategies and actions implemented to manage the crisis, including coordination efforts and resource deployment, highlighting the importance of preparedness and effective emergency management in mitigating the impact of natural disasters on health care systems.
Resources for Quick Earthquake Response Decisions
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation demonstrates efforts to mitigate hospital earthquake losses. It provides earthquake tools to assist emergency managers in making quick response decisions, including earthquake early warning to ease earthquake damage and injuries at health care facilities.
Managing Patients with Suspected Special Pathogens
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation discusses the management of a patient with a special pathogen who presents to a front-line facility. The session reviews considerations for PPE selection, waste management, and enhanced infection control measures.
Artificial Intelligence: Tools, Ethics and Risks, Changes Coming
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines free AI tools and how to use the tool to write, solve problems, translate, and generate images of accident or injury scenes. Using scenarios from risk, health and safety, and emergency management, you’ll learn how to save time so you can do something else in the world of disaster planning.