WATrac: Washingtons Healthcare Incident Management System

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WATrac Washingtons Healthcare Incident
Management System
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Meeting Agenda

• History Overview
• Product Demo
• Implementation Process Overview
• Questions/Next Steps

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A Coordinated Healthcare Response

• Needs
• Communications Coordination
• Information Management
• Situational Awareness
• Resource Pharmaceutical Tracking
• Alerting Capabilities for Response Partners
• Solution WATrac

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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

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Counties Using WATrac March 2009
San Juan
Whatcom
Pend Oreille
Okanogan
Ferry
Skagit
1
Island
Stevens
7
Clallam
Snohomish
2
Chelan
Jefferson
9
Spokane
6
Kitsap
Douglas
King
Lincoln
Grays Harbor
Mason
Grant
Adams
Pierce
Kittitas
Whitman
5
3
Thurston
Franklin
Lewis
Garfield
Pacific
8
Yakima
Columbia
Cowlitz
Skamania
Wahkiakum
Benton
Walla Walla
Asotin
4
Klickitat
Clark
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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

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Phase 1 Current Usage

• Emergency Department Diversion Status
• Hospital Bed Availability

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Tracking ED Status
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Bed Tracking
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Regional Status
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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

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Event Alerting
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Reporting Exporting
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Resource Pharmaceutical Tracking
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Knowledgebase
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Command Center
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Configuration Process

• Meeting configuration decisions
• Software configured based on groups decisions
• Training on product
• Practice data entry
• System goes live for your healthcare sector

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QUESTIONS?
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Contact Information

• Barbara Andrews
• barbara.andrews_at_kingcounty.gov
• 206-263-8718
• Allison Schletzbaum
• allison.schletzbaum_at_kingcounty.gov
• 206-263-8720
• Margaret Hansen
• margaret.hansen_at_doh.wa.gov
• 360-236-4026