Deadline Fast Approaching for Sweepstakes Showcasing PortBlue's CommandAware(TM) Hospital Incident Management System.One-Year Subscription to Innovative System Awaits Winning Hospital; October 15 is Deadline for Sweepstakes Entries LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- PortBlue Corporation, a leader in web-based expert systems, today called on the health care community to sample state-of-the-art disaster management by entering the company's CommandAware[TM] sweepstakes. CommandAware, PortBlue's newly released hospital incident management system, acts as an onsite expert to assist hospitals through all phases of incident and resource management. The sweepstakes prize is a one-year, hospital-wide subscription to CommandAware. Hospitals can enter at the CommandAware website (www.commandaware.com) through midnight Pacific Time on October 15. The winner will be announced on October 31. Due to overwhelming demand, PortBlue extended the initial deadline of September 30 by an additional two weeks. "With National Preparedness pre·par·ed·ness n. The state of being prepared, especially military readiness for combat. Noun 1. preparedness - the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action); "putting them Month now just concluding - and the Katrina and 9/11 anniversaries on everyone's mind - we felt there was no better time to provide hospitals with an opportunity to experience CommandAware first-hand," said Paul Dimitruk, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of PortBlue. "The sweepstakes is our way of heightening height·en v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens v.tr. 1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify. 2. To make high or higher; raise. v.intr. awareness among disaster management professionals, clinicians and hospital management that advanced software solutions can now address their critical needs in incident and resource management." CommandAware provides a web-based system for incident and resource management as well as best practices guidance for hospitals to better prepare and respond to events ranging from everyday patient surges to mass casualty events. While improving quality and efficiency of disaster management, CommandAware also helps assure compliance with national standards and accreditation accreditation, n a process of formal recognition of a school or institution attesting to the required ability and performance in an area of education, training, or practice. requirements, including those of JCAHO JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, see there and HEICS HEICS Hospital Emergency Incident Command System IV. The inability to respond in a timely, effective and comprehensive way to incidents affects the environment of care. Three populations can suffer: the casualties produced by the incident, the patients already admitted to the hospital, and hospital personnel. With CommandAware, hospitals have a state-of-the-art disaster management plan that gives disaster managers the information, work process tools, and resources they need to effectively respond to a full array of incidents. CommandAware also ensures that hospitals recover from incidents effectively, tracking vital data to capture lessons learned from both emergency drills and actual incidents so that mistakes are not repeated and process improvements are made. About PortBlue PortBlue Corporation (www.portblue.com) develops and hosts knowledge based systems An AI application that uses a database of knowledge about a subject. In time, it is expected that everyday information systems will increasingly become knowledge based and provide users with more assistance than they do today. See expert system. for the healthcare sector. The practical know-how of recognized experts is rapidly transformed into web-based training, work process and decision-support tools in the form of PortBlue hosted applications. PortBlue's systems mentor Mentor, in Greek mythology Mentor (mĕn`tər, –tôr'), in Greek mythology, friend of Odysseus and tutor of Telemachus. and guide users through key tasks and processes to optimal decisions and outcomes. |
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