Cambridge Health Alliance Selects Amcom Software's e.Notify(TM) Emergency Notification System; Automates Public Health Communications and Disaster Recovery Procedures.MINNEAPOLIS -- Cambridge Health Alliance Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a health system in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston, Massachusetts's metro-north communities. It includes three hospital campuses, more than 20 primary care and specialty practices, the Cambridge Public Health Department, and the Network Health today announced that it has selected e.Notify(TM) emergency notification software from Amcom Software to automate its emergency communications procedures for managing disasters across its multi-hospital network. The new system is HICS HICS Human Interaction with Complex Systems (Symposium) HICS Hospital Incident Command System HICS Hazardous Inventory Control System HICS Hardened Intersite Cable System HICS Head In Cement Syndrome (Marine slang) (Hospital Incident Command Center)-compliant and supports emergency planning processes for this multi-hospital healthcare system, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. "We needed an automated process to help us manage our organizational communications," said Bob Lewis, Director of Networks and Telecommunications for Cambridge Health Alliance. "With e.Notify from Amcom, we will have the tools for training and drilling, which will prepare us for various types of critical events such as weather-related emergencies, bomb threats or a health-related crisis. In the event of a disaster, we'll be ready to communicate quickly and effectively to a mass audience and monitor and measure response." Cambridge Health Alliance will install e.Notify in all three of its hospitals and will roll out emergency communications procedures across its entire organization. As part of the HICS structure, the software will integrate with communications policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental the hospital already has in place. With e.Notify, the process will be completely automated, handling two-way communications and tracking procedures with both internal and external audiences, including emergency response teams from local municipalities. About Amcom Amcom Software provides mission-critical communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry solutions for organizations that depend on speed, accuracy, and productivity to support day-to-day business continuity and event-driven communications. Amcom's open technology, standards-based technology solutions are used by more than 400 blue-chip companies in healthcare, education, finance, utilities and government agencies. Amcom customers include Air Force, Duke University, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as , Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City is a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. The main campus is located at 1275 York Avenue, between 67th and 68th Streets, with other locations in New , U.S. Department of the Army, Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was , and Stanford University and Medical Center. For more information, call (800) 852-8935 or visit the company web site at www.amcomsoftware.com. e.Notify is a trademark of Amcom Software, Inc. All other trademarks herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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