Innovation Lifecycle Management: Disaster Response Technology Capabilities

Disaster response technology is critical within healthcare organizations like hospitals to tackle any kind of disaster that may affect patient safety, healthcare outcomes, and the overall business. Disaster response technology capabilities enable healthcare systems to be prepared for any kind of disaster. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed lack of an efficient disaster recovery system within many healthcare organizations and its repercussions on a global scale. COVID-19 is not the first pandemic that we have faced nor will be the last. Therefore, healthcare systems require efficient tools at their disposal to deal with the life-threatening pandemics like COVID-19. For example, artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be leveraged to maintain and expand the capabilities of existing systems and personnel at every stage in the disaster life cycle. Employing artificial intelligence for disaster response can be extremely beneficial as it has the capability to notify us about potential disasters before they strike. Disaster management technology plan in hospitals comprise ensuring availability of innovations for emergency management principles and best practices and incorporates priority action required for rapid, effective response to critical events.