The Washington D.C. Department of Health has tapped a Milwaukee-based provider of healthcare IT solutions to ensure that any medical emergencies are handled smoothly during today's Presidential Inauguration.
EMSystems has provided emergency communication, bed availability and patient tracking solutions and staff to help D.C. officials manage the millions of people and dozens of public events that have inundated the nation's capital in the days leading up to today's inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. The company's EMTrack and Response Manager emergency preparedness solutions are being used to facilitate patient management and tracking, allowing officials to view, report and manage all emergency medical activities.
The company's software and services were pressed into use during last fall's Democratic National Convention in Denver and at several other high-profile public events.
"We are very honored to have the opportunity to partner with the Washington D.C. Department of Health for the Presidential Inauguration and the several public events occurring over the weekend," said Andy Nunemaker, EMSystems' CEO, in a press release. "Our EMSystems' state of the art emergency communication and patient tracking solutions ensure that their teams have the critical tools in place to gain real-time, accurate information to manage patient care during the events."
Founded in 1998, EMSystems offers, along with EMTrack, the EMResource inventory and resource management system, EMCredential volunteer registry and credentialing system and EMRecord patient care information system. The company reports that it serves more than 35 percent of the nation's population through hospitals, EMS providers, fire departments, law enforcement agencies and health departments.
Last October, the company merged with Global Secure Systems (also known as Virtual Alert), an Austin, Texas-based provider of multi-media alerting and documentation management solutions for crisis preparation and response.
Among the company's customers are the Missouri Hospital Association, which has used the company's software to deal with everything from an overturned school bus to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, Texas, which also used the system during the hurricanes.
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