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Hurricane Ian Reveals Continuing Vulnerabilities for Healthcare Facilities

DRI Drive

In 2012, the stories of hospitals fighting to maintain services and keep patients safe during Superstorm Sandy rocked the resilience field. 28, as Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm, at least 16 hospitals from […]. 10 years later, climate change may have made the dangers to vital facilities even more severe.

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Summer Olympics Preparedness: Cyberattacks and Heatwaves

DRI Drive

A recent report identified several potential cyber vulnerabilities, particularly for hospitality, transportation, healthcare, and other companies providing services during the games. For Paris, that means preparing for cyber threats and protecting athletes and spectators from extreme weather.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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How Hospitals Use Diagnostic Analytics & AI in Healthcare

Pure Storage

Healthcare organizations use diagnostic analytics platforms to understand why things happened—for instance, why a patient had to be hospitalized or why a particular treatment didn’t work as expected. AI-based healthcare analytics solutions have gained traction at many leading hospitals worldwide.

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CHG Healthcare Helps Hospitals Tackle Staff Shortages as Demand for Doctors and Nurses Soars

Pure Storage

These shortages have become more pressing during the COVID-19 pandemic, with hospitals overrun and in urgent need of additional doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to treat and care for patients. Today, hospitals rely on digital platforms and talent management software to manage their staffing needs.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

For example, civil aviation is particularly vulnerable. Thus, the vulnerability and fragility of people and society need to be seen in the light of socio-economic changes induced by the epidemic. Vast mutations in society, economy and social behaviour are possible. In each of the five categories there are opposites or alternatives.

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Review of New Report on Resilience

Recovery Diva

Nashville is vulnerable to blackouts, particularly during cold weather. The Dutch Ministry of Health; the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany directed the University Hospital Mnster to develop a digital platform that hospitals near the border could use to facilitate patient transfer.