A. Healthcare Infrastructure Status Information System Informed by the 2024 Statewide Jurisdictional Risk Assessment (JRA), this initiative responds directly to Indiana’s identified priority hazards, most notably epidemic/pandemic threats, infrastructure failures, severe weather, mass casualty incident (MCI), and cybersecurity incidents— creating significant threats to healthcare service delivery. This system enhances situational awareness, operational coordination, and equitable emergency response by integrating health system status data with riskinformed decision-making. 1. The system must have the ability to capture, manage, and report Essential Elements of Information (EEI) necessary for effective emergency management, healthcare system coordination, patient transport, and executive leadership decision-making from healthcare facilities, including but not limited to, hospitals, emergency medical services (EMS), long-term care, dialysis/ESRD, local health department (LHD), urgent care, Federally Qualified Health Care (FQHC), Community Health Centers (CHCs), Rural Health Centers (RHCs), rehabilitation facilities, behavioral mental health providers. 2. The system must provide comprehensive tracking and reporting of EEIs including, but not limited to: Bed capacity and utilization (e.g., ICU, med/surg, pediatric, behavioral health) o Ventilator availability o Generator and power status o Emergency department functionality o Staffing levels and shortages o Surge capacity and Mass Causality Triage indicators o Diversion Status o Telecommunications Status o Facility Water Status o Electronic Medical Records Status The system must support interoperability with hospital and EMS providers for frequent and automated data flow. The system must also be able to provide dashboards (at the healthcare facility, EMS unit, district, and state level) and other methods to take all data elements within the system and turn it into digestible information that can be shared amongst key stakeholders. The system must support connections with out-of-state health systems, state and locally operated healthcare facility and EMS tracking systems. These connections will support cross-border transportation and situational awareness. 3. User Interface Requirements: o Ability for users/administrators to send network, county, district, statewide alerts to other users o Ability to connect to other patient tracking systems at the facility, system, and state level o Administrative Dashboard: Design a user-friendly dashboard for administrators to view key metrics, such as bed and ventilator availability, resource statuses, and recent notifications. o Reporting Interface: Provide a reporting tool that can generate and reports on-demand or on a scheduled basis, with options to export to different formats (PDF, Excel, etc)
