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During emergency health service pro-
viders have to deal with two basic chal-
lenges: the disproportion between
needs and resources and the limited
response time. A major weakness of
the current national health emergency
management systems lies with the
command & control operations that
should coordinate the actions of several
diverse and separate services and turn
them into an effective, multi-faceted cri-
sis response mechanism.
The envisaged solution aims facilitating
communication and interaction between
Health Services and Emergency Re-
sponders at all levels of response to
crisis and disasters. Thus IMPRESS
ensure access to the information and
resources of the health care systems
and allow the supervision and coordina-
tion of the organizations participating in
the integrated solution.
IMPRESS will improve the efficiency of
decision making in emergency health
operations, having thus a direct impact
on the quality of services provided to
citizens. The output of the project will
provide a consolidated concept of oper-
ations implemented as a modular Deci-
sion Support System that can effective-
ly manage medical resources and pre-
pare and coordinate response activities,
using data from multiple heterogeneous
sources.
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IMproving Preparedness and Response
of hEalth Services in major criseS
This project has received funding from the Euro-pean Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no [608078]
Partners
Core Objectives:
Re-balance the disproportion be-tween response needs and health system capacity, through proper mo-bilization of additional resources (material, logistics and health person-nel) and enhanced organization (e.g. e-triage, interoperability of health ser-vices)
Remediate the information deficit
with rapid collection of relevant data
and exchange of adequate infor-
mation. Support decision making ac-
cording to the impact of crisis and in-
cident type to the Health Status of the
Community
Improve the response and prepar-
edness level of Health services
based on efficient planning, integral
organization and comprehensive
training, using interoperable tools and
systems
Enhance interoperability within the
same and among different EMS or-
ganizations using common taxonomy
and providing stakeholders in the
emergency response domain with a
compatible operational framework
Concept and Stakeholders
What We Do
IMPRESS aims to improve the preparedness of emergency medical services (ambulance dispatch
centers, hospitals, volunteer communities etc) in numerous ways, including planning for all-hazards,
increasing surge capacity, tracking the availability of hospital beds and other resources using electron-
ic systems, and developing systems that are interoperable with other response teams. The IMPRESS
scope is to provide health system with preparedness and response capabilities through guidelines and
tools where ultimately, the routine use of these capabilities will improve their performance in case of
large disasters.