Just as methodical programs to improve emergency communications interoperability are building up speed, new technologies threaten to derail the entire effort. Emergency responders find that new mobile ...

COMCARE, the Emergency Interoperable Consortium (EIC), and the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) announced the successful trial of new emergency data communications standards ...

House subcommittee leaders say more is needed to make emergency communications devices interoperable; they and other officials say FEMA should stay in DHS. Leaders of a key House subcommittee today ...

The new HL7 Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems specification identifies a common set of data elements in an effort to improve interoperability among emergency departments. The new HL7 Data ...

Cal OES engines prepositioned, and now responding, to the multiple fires impacting Southern California. (Photo: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services via X) In 2007, I wrote in Homeland ...

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - More than 60 emergency management communicators gathered in-person and virtually to discuss disaster communications and best practices Nov. 3-4. The FEMA Region ...

Secure communications offers flexibility, information sharing. Civilian disaster response personnel soon will employ secure electronic messaging to communicate with U.S. government agencies and ...

COMCARE, the Emergency Interoperable Consortium (EIC), and the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) announced the successful trial of new emergency data communications standards ...

Democrats who will assume leadership roles on homeland security when the new Congress convenes in January are questioning Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s recently stated goal for having ...