UAB Synopsis, Vol. 25, No. 11, May 22, 2006
Birmingham Regional Medical Services System (BREMSS) emergency coordination system, LifeTrac, has been chosen as one of five finalists from a broad field of national applicants for the prestigious Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security.
The award is a collaboration between Mitretek Systems, a nonprofit organization specializing in the use of technology in the public interest, and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
BREMSS coordinates the Birmingham Regional Trauma System through its Trauma Communication Center and the LifeTrac system, a state-of-the-art technology that assesses emergency room, trauma, and stroke center availability, as well as hospital diversion to ensure people with emergencies get to the right facility that can handle their problem.
TRAC — an acronym for triage, routing, and communication — monitors for biological and chemical events, assists in the event of mass casualty incidents, and links emergency teams and ambulances within a 14-hospital network.
Finalist Presentations
Award finalists will undergo a site evaluation and make presentations to a national panel of experts in the field of homeland security. The winner will be announced this summer.
The Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security seeks to identify, explore, and highlight creative and effective government and public-private partnership solutions — and the leaders behind them — that address the nation’s homeland security concerns.