EmergencyPreparedness Percentage of Healthcare sector respondents: Reported low confidence in their ability to recover data following a disaster 55% Admitted to spending nothing at all on backup and disaster recovery in 2011 34% Could not recover quickly following a disaster 33% Said they would suffer substantial downtime following a disaster 42% Why do hospitals most often activate their emergency preparedness plans? 52%Winter Storm 20%Tornado 17%Flood 48%Power Outages 17%Hurricane 13%Mass Casualty 12%Fire 15%Hazardous Spill 12%Emerging Infectous Diseases, excluding H1N1 6%Earthquake 5%Evacuation 8%Bomb Threat 4%Active shooter 2%Mass Transit Strike of discrup- Percentage of organizations with one or more events in the last 5 years that required implementation of the emergency preparedness Percentage of organizations which had to go on emergency power because of a disaster in the last 5 years Major Challenges in Emergency Preparedness 21%Staff training in response skills as a major challenge in emergency preparedness 54%Governmental processes/ compliance issues 39%Unfunded mandates for emergency preparedness 38%Time limitations 36%Competing resources/ spending priorities Top 10 features incorporated into facilities to address DISASTERS, TERRORISM and MASS CASUALTIES Top 6 features incorporated into the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT DESIGN to address disasters, terrorism and mass casualties Computer information system that can track patients and patient records in real-time 45% Additional fuel and emergency supply storage42% Flexible incident-command locations38% Additional generator capacity37% Advanced security/lockdown systems32% Expanded emergency communication systems29% Extra space for decontamination/mass casulaties27% Remote data center23% Prevent access to outdoor air intakes22% Additional uninterruptible power supply capacity19% Enhanced air pressure control and isolation capabilities 56% 12% 45% 8% 43% 6% 41% 7% 39% 7% 33% 10% Already in place Plan to implement in the next 24 months Add more treatment areas designed to thwart cross-contamination and cross-infection Radiation detection Ability of staff to vary control of power and pressure moving from one unit to another in relation to priorities Modular scalability to serve many patients on a daily basis and then expand for larger number sin minutes Ability to share encrypted data with sanctioned medical, public safety, military and governmental agencies Source: 2014 emergency management survey www.medhost.com