RapidResponse Project

Keywords / Description:

This promising practice outlines the Guildford County Department of Public Health in North Carolina's practice, which allows teams to collect and analyze field data more efficiently and rapidly following natural disasters, disease outbreaks, or other emergent public health events. The project has the following components:

Extend electronic field data collection capability
Identify wireless communication capacities
Equip PHRST regions with handheld computers, GPS units, and GIS software
GIS training program.
Implement system tests and exercises

Toolkit:

PH Informatics Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Health Information Technology (HIT), Incident Command System, Natural Disaster, Pandemic Influenza

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

Guilford County Department of Public Health

Submitted:

06/18/2007

Modified:

03/06/2009

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