successfuluse of EDXLRM was verified by NICTA

HAVE allows emergency dispatchers and managers to make sound logistics decisionson where to route victims based on accurate hospital bed availability, status,services, and capacity data. Although some hospitals currently use proprietarytechnology to publish this kind of information, only those parties with the samesystems can access their data. "Isolated pockets of communication are simply not sufficient for large-scaleemergencies," said Laurent Liscia, executive director of OASIS. "By presentingdata in a standardized format, HAVE removes this barrier, enabling all partiesinvolved in emergency response (other hospitals, EOCs, 9-1-1 centers, EMSresponders, etc.) to view the information they need." In accordance with eligibility requirements for all OASIS Standards, successfuluse of EDXL-RM was verified by NICTA, NuParadigm, and OSS Nokalva; HAVE wasverified by ESI, Evolution Technologies, and NuParadigm. Both standards weredeveloped under the Royalty-Free on RAND mode of the OASIS Intellectual PropertyRights Policy. Participation in the Emergency Management Technical Committee remains open toall companies, non-profit groups, government agencies, academic institutions,and individuals. Archives of the work are publicly accessible, and OASIS offersa mechanism for public comment.

The industry as a whole has made great progress in enabling emergencycollaboration and interoperability, promoted significantly by the workaccomplished through OASIS. By creating standards with these higher levels ofinformation, collaborating agencies can dramatically improve the effectivenessof their emergency responses," said Aviv Siegel, CTO, AtHoc U.S. National Integration Center's Incident Management Systems IntegrationDivision"These latest additions to the EDXL suite of standards should help increase theinteroperability of incident communications We've been actively participatingin their development. This includes developing the requirements in collaborationwith practitioners, as well as participating in the technical standardscommittee." WSI"The world's recent experiences in the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes, andfloods clearly demonstrate how vital the standardization and adoption of EDXL-RMand EDXL-HAVE are.

WSI is proud to play a part in this work,having provided leadership to the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committeesince this effort began. Our experience integrating emergency alert systems ishighly dependent on open data standards, especially where secure and reliableexchange of such information is mission critical," said Patrick J Gannon,President & COO, WSI. Additional information:OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee http:// OASIS:OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards),drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for theglobal information society. A not-for-profit consortium, OASIS advancesstandards for SOA, security, Web services, documents, e-commerce, government andlaw, localisation, supply chains, XML processing, and other areas of needidentified by its members.

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