June 14, 2023 5 Ways AI Could Challenge Emergency Preparedness If you haven’t been paying attention to artificial intelligence (AI), it’s time to up your situational awareness.
May 31, 2023 Weather Extremes are a Problem for Today There are so many articles predicting extreme weather to impact us years down the road, but if you ask me we are seeing those extremes today.
May 16, 2023 Stay Vigilant Against Cyberattacks Citing the rise in cyberattacks against hospitals and other public health organizations, the federal government last month launched free training for health care workers, as well as a new analysis of the hospital cybersecurity landscape.
May 02, 2023 What We Can Learn from a Once-in-a-Lifetime Hospital Fire Recently, a Massachusetts hospital south of Boston was fully evacuated after a fire broke out in a basement transformer room. Due to safety concerns, power to the entire facility was discontinued.
April 13, 2023 Is AI the Future of Emergency Management? It’s easy to look at the possibilities for AI and extrapolate what it will mean for health care. Some scenarios are more fanatical—or perhaps Orwellian—than others, but there is limitless potential.
March 30, 2023 What Comes After COVID-19? As emergency managers, we are prepared and ready to go where disaster strikes. If we were driving an ambulance, the last few years have felt like constant lights and sirens, but even ambulances idle down when they’ve reached their destination.