Potential Topic Areas for the EI Summit

["Jane Harnad" <jane.harnad@oasis-open.org>]

Hello Everyone,

Below is a list of potential topics ideas for the upcoming Emergency Interoperability Summit, for review.  Please feel free to forward comments and/or adjustments.  Thanks, Jane

BTW:  Also attached is the latest version of the EI Summit announcement.  

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List of Potential Topics:

* Improving Emergency Management (EM) throughout the entire lifecycle of emergency incidents from planning and preparations

* Identifying and overcoming EM operational challenges 
 
* Addressing the fractured market of EM tools, the operational and economic benefits of making them interoperable, and a coherent framework to get there

* illustrating a growing array of innovative tools that are effective at handling specific aspects of EM

* Challenges for EM ahead  

* Governance and management of EM projects, the how, why, and results of implementation

* Coherent framework for EM interoperability

* Demonstrating the amount gained from interoperability, not only in terms of cost and operational effectiveness for the EM community

* Facilitating wide-scale interoperability, defined by independent bodies and accessible publicly as open standards

* Alerting and warning messages, in any medium

* Packaging and distributing digital emergency communication 

* EM software applications, the operational and economic benefits of implementing making them interoperable applications

* Uniform methods of arranging and accounting for logistical operations that allow responders to do their jobs while the resources are managed automatically

* Providing the means for a uniform method of reporting a snapshot of available healthcare facilities, equipment and personnel during emergencies 

* Work underway that will provide the means for a uniform method of reporting critical information for EM decision making in a timely way

Emergency Interoperability Summit.docx