WATrac: Washington’s Healthcare Incident Management System
Meeting Agenda History & Overview Product Demo Implementation Process Overview Questions/Next Steps
A Coordinated Healthcare Response Needs: –Communications Coordination –Information Management –Situational Awareness –Resource & Pharmaceutical Tracking –Alerting Capabilities for Response Partners Solution: WATrac
What is WATrac? WATrac is an Incident Management system designed to support health and medical response throughout Washington State Web-based Application –Vendor: Imagetrend (Minneapolis, MN) –Remote Hosted (Minneapolis & Chicago) –Unlimited Logins –HIPAA Compliant
Spokane San Juan Island Pierce King Snohomish Skagit Whatcom Clallam Jefferson Grays Harbor Thurston Kitsap Clark Cowlitz Lewis SkamaniaWahkiakum Mason Yakima Chelan OkanoganFerry Stevens Lincoln KittitasWhitman Klickitat BentonWalla Columbia Garfield Asotin Franklin Adams Grant Douglas Pacific Pend Oreille Counties Using WATrac – March 2009
Statewide Implementation Contract between PHSKC and DOH –Barbara Andrews, Statewide Implementation Manager –Que Mathis, Staff Assistant –Allison Schletzbaum, Project & Technical Guidance –Margaret Hansen, DOH contact WATrac Users Group –Four representatives from hospitals, local public health, EMS –Statewide members –Guide future implementation of WATrac
Phase 1 – Current Usage Emergency Department Diversion Status Hospital Bed Availability
Tracking ED Status
Bed Tracking
Regional Status
WATrac During an Emergency Event Keep in touch with healthcare partners Automatic bed counts statewide Resource matching On-line chat and conferencing for real-time communication Public portal for reuniting families
Event Alerting
Reporting & Exporting
Resource & Pharmaceutical Tracking
Knowledgebase
Command Center
Configuration Process Meeting configuration decisions Software configured based on group’s decisions Training on product Practice data entry System goes live for your healthcare sector
QUESTIONS?
Contact Information Barbara Andrews – Allison Schletzbaum – Margaret Hansen –