WebEOC Blog up and running

Even after two and a half years in NZ I am still not used to a long break at Christmas so it is nice to be back in the office with most people still away for a week or two and able to get some outstanding work done.

One of these pieces of work was the creation of a blog to update the health emergency management community around changes to WebEOC and Emergeo. Boards and links on the control panel are always being refined following user comments in exercises or real incidents and many of these changes are small or subtle refinements that do not necessarily warrant posting to the Emergency Management part of the Ministry of Health website.

Blogging is also an ideal means of contacting the thousands of potential users across the sector. Why thousands? Well there are over 900 generic CIMS (Coordinated Incident Management System) based positions across nearly 60 agencies and I know many emergency managers have 3 or 4 people trained for each role,

It's also a bit more informal and an opportunity to keep anyone interested up to date with the more routine work in progress on the system.

In order to provide some initial content I have added some of the most recent changes and events over the last 6 months.