Code Orange: External Disaster Emergency

A guide to automating the response to external disasters quickly and effectively at hospitals.

Challenge

Hospitals' code orange incidents require a quick response. When one occurs, a lot of staff need to be contacted and called in. This is because a code orange is called in response to an external disaster resulting in mass casualties.

The sudden influx of patients in these events can be a huge strain on hospital resources. Organizing the response is critical. This means bringing in as many staff as possible to help, as well as keeping track of the disaster.

Solution

SimplyDigital Hospital offers the Code Orange use case, a digital process designed to streamlined the response to a Code Orange. The solution ensures all required staff are contacted to mitigate the dangers of the situation as quickly as possible. Using this solution, hospitals can launch alerts to all staff to ensure that the incident is handled without issue.

Code orange mass casualty response plans can always be prepared in advance. By adding automation to the mix, response plans can be triggered and communications can begin instantly. Doing so ensures that the code orange response is streamlined and efficient.

Steps to Success

  1. Send alerts to all staff or a subset of available on-call staff.
  2. Launch pre-defined emergency response plans.
  3. Ensure all necessary staff are made aware of a code orange situation as soon as possible.

Best Outcome

Use case benefit
Staff registries and templated alerts save time in an emergency.
Use case benefit
The appropriate staff and resources are located and gathered as quickly as possible.
Use case benefit
More patients can be attended to as staff are not tied up waiting for resources or additional help.
Use case benefit
Further expand your ability to respond to emergency codes with medical emergency use cases. These use cases include code white for dangerous persons, code red for fires, and code purple for hostage situations.
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