Officials with information technology company ReadyPoint announced today that St. Mary's Health System has chosen them to automate its incident management services in its two Indiana-based facilities.
The company’s StandTo™ technology will help the healthcare system manage incidents like unplanned crises.
St. Mary's Health System -- comprised of St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville and St. Mary's Warrick Hospital in Boonville -- is part of Ascension Health, a Catholic non-profit health system.
"Today's healthcare environment is competitive, and hospitals can't afford to make mistakes," Chris Riddle, founder and president of ReadyPoint Systems, was quoted in a press release. "Our technology is precise and easy-to-use, which enables hospitals to prepare for and manage a wide-range of unplanned events."
The ReadyPoint StandTo technology helps hospitals plan and prepare for situations like extreme weather; events involving many injured and dying people, like 9/11; epidemics, and any unplanned or catastrophic event.
"St. Mary's just launched its first drill using the StandTo™ technology," added Keith Kahre, EMS/security manager and safety officer of St. Mary's Health System. "Once fully implemented, I am confident that this system will be of vital importance during any emergency, particularly because we face a substantial earthquake risk in Southwest Indiana with the New Madrid and Wabash Valley fault lines nearby."
ReadyPoint describes its StandTo™ technology as “a web-based incident management system that automates a healthcare facility's incident management services,” and says it used by more than 150 hospitals across the nation.
St. Mary's Health System plans to use the StandTo™ system to conduct emergency preparedness exercises and to manage actual crisis events.
"This technology will allow us to conduct more effective emergency preparedness exercises at both hospitals simultaneously, which ensures we'll be better prepared to provide safety across a wider area of Indiana," Kahre explains.
The hospital system plans to use the technology to do what most of us don’t – prepare ahead of time for when disaster strikes. Would we have been better off, would less have died, on 9/11 if hospitals had had disaster plans? It’s hard to say. But you can bet many of them have these plans now, and hope, along with the rest of us, that they never have to use them.
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
