Extra fields added to position log

Following feedback from the SuperUser training and discussion at the EMIS Reference Group two additional fields have been added to the generic position log. The priority fields allow users to indicate a Flash, High, Medium or Low priority, whilst the Accuracy field allows them to indicate the level of faith in the data. For example information received from an emergency service or a member of staff on the ground may be rated highly, whilst anecdotal reports may be rated quite low unless corroborating reports are received.

These fields appear above the description in the display view and you can see here two medium priority entries highlighted yellow.

Control panel condensed down

The control panel has been simplified by grouping common functions such as the Epidemiological Intelligence Reports and SitReps into menu items.

Don't forget that depending on the user position that you have logged in as you may have different access permissions. For example an Incident Controller will be able to review and publish an entire sitrep but an Operations Manager will only have access to draft the Operations part of a Sitrep.

Control panel to be re-structured

At the EMIS reference group it was agreed that the number of current boards and boards under development require a revision of their naming to keep better track of what is visible to end users. Accordingly, boards are being re-numbered and grouped into functional areas. This means that users will have a selection of boards that reflect their role - resulting in an incomplete sequence (i.e. boards 1,2,3,5,7,8,15,16). A list of the re-numbered boards will shortly be made available.

Board Builders Boot Camp

A two day administrator’s course and board building session was held on 9 and 10 December and was attended by a number of emergency managers, web developers and public health specialists.The course was extremely successful with a number of boards built in development, and a number of local and national business as usual systems identified as being suitable for an API.

Boards that were built included a personnel and task tracking board for Public Health investigations, status reporting and facilities status boards for DHBs and enhancements to the Ambulance EOC status board and resource tracking. These boards will be further developed and move into production shortly.

Another Board Builders Boot Camp will be run towards the middle of 2009.

Creation of agency specific folders in the file library

The file library has had a number of read-only folders created with copies of national guidance, plans and legislation. These folders will be further populated with the DHB health emergency plans as they are finalised. Each agency has also has an ‘agency only’ folder created where internal documents, such as operating procedures or contact lists can be stored.

Update - Classification of Event Log terminology

The terminology for the position, EOC and Sig Event logs has been modified slightly. Hopefully this will more clearly show the inter-relationship between the logs.

The Position Log has been renamed Position Event Log
The EOC Activity Log has been renamed EOC Event Log
The EOC Sig Events and National Sig Events are unchanged