Exploring Downtown Atlanta, Home of the 2018 Intermedix Preparedness Summit
We are excited to be hosting this year’s Preparedness Summit in Downtown Atlanta, the home of one of the largest business districts in the Southeast. The downtown area offers numerous tourist attractions, entertainment centers, restaurants, hotels and other businesses, all within walking distance of your hotel! Here are just a few you might find to […]
Stay the Weekend and Explore Atlanta after the Preparedness Summit
Image Credit: Dronestagram For this year’s Preparedness Summit, Emergency Management experts from various industries will gather at the Preparedness Division’s new home in Atlanta, GA. After enjoying three days of informative sessions covering emergency management and health preparedness and response, we encourage you to spend the rest of the weekend in Atlanta to explore all it […]
Three Crucial Steps to Ensure Flash Flood Preparedness
From New Orleans to Colorado Springs, over the past few years, we have witnessed the detrimental effects that flash floods have had on our nation. Flash floods are the most common and widespread of all weather-related natural disasters, having the ability to threaten any area with little warning.
Waze Shows Emergency Managers the Way
Every month, Waze guides 65 million travelers through 6.5 million miles of tangled roadways, finding the best routes through expected delays caused by rush hour and construction as well as sudden hazards caused by accidents and detritus in roadways. Crowdsourced, real-time data gathered by the Waze app provide drivers with immediate, dynamic route suggestions. Sudden accident […]
How to Improve Process Discovery in Emergency Management
Process discovery is the first major step toward developing or adapting software that addresses specific needs within your organization. Unfortunately, emergency managers have several liabilities that often prevent them from following these standard best practices for process discovery. In general, this means working with a core group of process owners to define current processes and […]
“Houston, we have a problem.” – Apollo 13 Lessons for How to Act During an Emergency Incident
Most everyone knows the story of Apollo 13, the space craft which, on April 13, 1970, suffered catastrophic damage by a burst oxygen tank two days after leaving Earth’s surface. The three crew members, along with support from their ground team, allowed for a successful return, averting what everyone thought would surely be a fatal […]