Leading from Preparedness Through Recovery - The 2012 ...

Focus area DescriptionsFocus Area DescriptionsResponse Integration andOperational Medicine:Disasters can have catastrophic impacts and significantimplications for population health and medical systems.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),in collaboration with its planning partners, mobilizes a widerange of response systems to augment local, state, and tribalresources as they strive to serve populations impacted bydisaster. This focus area emphasizes the integration of variousdiverse entities to achieve positive outcomes and address theunique challenges of operational medicine.Response Integration focuses on vertical and horizontalintegration and collaboration of multidisciplinary teams amonglocal, state, tribal, and national governments. Participants willbe provided with a broad overview of response operations,including complex public health, human and veterinarymedical, and mass fatality operations. Individual sessions willprovide timely examples of how these practices are developedand how they have evolved.All sessions will focus on and define mechanisms for buildingoperational partnerships, coupled with cultural competencies,necessary to forge sustainable relationships among operationalpublic health and medical responding agencies and systems.Operational Medicine is defined as the provision of multidisciplinaryhealthcare in resource-challenged environmentswith unique and hazardous conditions. Practicing “goodmedicine in poor conditions” is a major emphasis of thisfocus area since recent events and worldwide attentionhave identified the critical need to have and maintain viableresponse capabilities in austere environments. Sessions in theOperational Medicine focus area range from fundamentals ofoperating in austere environments to recommendations andtools for development and implementation of operationalmedicine concepts.Focus Area Descriptions Color Key:Agenda At A Glance is color coded by focus area for your reference.See below for the color assigned to each focus area and refer to pages 13-17 for session information.Healthcare SystemsLeadershipPublic HealthResource Management and Patient MovementResponse Integration and Operational Medicine82012 Integrated Training Summit