STARRS Board Packet for September 7, 2007, Monthly Board Meeting

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Major Project Status ReportAugust 13, 2007Page 3the marketing of public health videos and fact sheets that were developed in fiscal year 2005-2006.Another CRI deliverable is to provide training for the CRI region elected officials. To addressthis deliverable, STARRS’ staff researched existing courses and curriculum to determine the bestavailable training. The Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) a part of the Departmentof Homeland Security's Training Consortium offers several National Incident Management(NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) courses. Two of those courses are the MayoralInstitute Seminar and the Senior Officials Workshop. Staff audited the Mayoral InstituteSeminar on February 24 in Nevada, Iowa to determine the appropriateness of the curriculum.The Mayoral Institute Seminar is a forum for mayors and elected officials to discuss disasterresponse challenges unique to mayors, county executive officers, and county commissioners.This facilitated discussion is designed for 8-12 mayors (preferably a group of mayors sharingregional response interests), which provides a unique opportunity to share proven strategies. Theseminar features a multimedia terrorism scenario and other relevant all-hazards vignettesdesigned to fuel discussion and highlight key issues of the Emergency Management framework.The Senior Officials Workshop is for local-jurisdiction elected and appointed senior officials. Itspurpose is to provide a forum to discuss strategic- and executive-level issues related to disasterpreparedness, share proven strategies and best practices, and enhance coordination amongofficials responsible for emergency response to a disaster.This training was offered free of charge through TEEX in June and July for Mayors, CityAdministrators and City Managers.Bio Decontamination Tent TrainingProject Coordinator: Martha Kopper 314-244-9604A Decontamination train-the trainer course was offered by Biotech Systems, Inc. on August 2 atBarnes Jewish Hospital. In addition to Barnes Jewish staff, one member from St. John’s MercyMedical Center, St. Anthony’s Health Center and DePaul Hospital attended this training.Biotech Systems indicated that they would be willing to come to St. Louis to provide futuretraining if the need arose.Emergency Tracking System (ETS) Patient TrackingProject Coordinator: Terry Sofian 314-244-9606Phase IV of ETS has been completed. Funding from this phase was allocated for the purchase oftwenty additional scanners for deployment to St. Louis County EMS field units. The deploymentof this equipment should be completed by August 20 th , 2007.ETS was used to transmit data on 300 simulated patients during the June exercise by IllinoisRegion IV hospitals. Feedback was positive with all data transmitted successfully.
Major Project Status ReportAugust 13, 2007Page 4On July 23 rd a teleconference between IBM, EMSystem, St. Charles County Ambulance District(SCCAD), STARRS and Zol Datasystems (the electronic patient care reports system currentlybeing deployed by SCCAD) was held to discuss development of a data sharing agreementbetween ETS and the patient care report systems. The intent of this discussion was to determinethe feasibility of moving forward with this interface. The meeting ended with no decisions maderegarding the merging of these two systems. More information will be provided once it becomesavailable.July 19 th MetroCom Council met to discuss the development of operational guidelines for ETSuse as a daily patient tracking system. MetroCom Council has accepted long term responsibilityfor the governance of ETS in parallel to its ongoing responsibility for regional governance ofEMResource.Gateway ESSENCE: Regional Syndromic SurveillanceProject Coordinator: Hilda Adams 314-244-9607The Gateway ESSENCE project, funded by UASI ‘06 will establish a regional syndromicsurveillance system for local public health agencies and hospitals. Using sophisticated softwaredeveloped by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the system uses automatedelectronic chief complaint data feeds from the area’s emergency rooms to provide an earlywarning of disease outbreaks. Gateway ESSENCE will share existing data feeds from hospitalsin the MO portion of the region to the MDHSS and create new ones for the IL hospitals. Thisdata will be co housed with the MO state ESSENCE system.Milestone:Data sharing agreement with MDHSS: Target Date June 2007; revised August 2007• December 2006 – February 2007: Local uses of data as specified by MO reporting ruledefined by GEOC. Data sharing request letter sent by STARRS on behalf of local publichealth directors;• March: Response received requesting more information on regional system and legalreviews. Coordination with local health directors to set up meeting in April with MDHSSto discuss data sharing• April: Discussion of Gateway ESSENCE with MDHSS; meeting planned with theirGeneral Counsel and local health departments on sharing of data. Hilda and Kristydiscussed Gateway ESSENCE with MDHSS after advice from Gil Copley; meetingplanned with their General Counsel on sharing of data after local health administratorsmeet on April 11 th and discuss whether they want to participate. The MO Local HealthDirectors met on 4/11 and discussed the response from MDHSS. Gil Copley reportedthat all directors were still in full support of the project and some were actually surprised
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