OASIS Emergency Management TC

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Enabling information exchange to advance incident preparedness and response to emergency situations

Elysa Jones, elysajones@yahoo.com, Chair
Rex Brooks, rexb@starbourne.com, Secretary

Table of Contents

Announcements

On 28 January 2019 the OASIS Committee Specification Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) Version 2.0 Committee Specification 01 Proposed HL7® Informative Document 13 December 2018 was published. In addition, TC Administrator Chet Ensign posted the document on Linked-In for discussion. This is noteworthy because it is the first Joint Release of OASIS Open and Health Level Seven International.

From 31 October - 1 November 2018, the international CAP Workshop 2018 was held in Hong Kong, China. You can access the agenda and presentations here. You can access the Final Report here.

On 3 April 2018 the HL7 paper Healthcare IT Computable-Interoperability Strategy“Methodology to manage data-quality risk by standardizing data” In accordance with 21st Century Cures Act, TEFCA and USCDI was posted to the Documents repository of the EM Adoption TC.

On 22 March 2018 Best Practices for the Dissemination of Weather Warnings to the Public A Best Practice Statement of the American Meteorological Society(Adopted by the AMS Council 7 January 2018) was posted to the Documents repository of the EM Adoption TC.

From Dec 2017-April 2018 implementers of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) are invited to answer questions regarding the creation of an Event Terms List. For details, see Call for Comments which was extended through April.

Late February 2018 marked the signing of the 2017 Statement of Understanding (SOU) between OASIS and Health Level Seven (HL7).

On Jan 30 2018, HL7 Patient Administration Working Group approved joint release of the Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE) standard which includes an appendix mapping to the HL7 data items. A full announcement from HL7 and OASIS for the joint release is anticipated 1Q2018.

On September 22, 2017 the first international EDXL Workshop was held in Rome. You can access the agenda and presentations here. You can access the Final Report here.

On September 20-21, 2017 the international CAP Workshop 2017 was held in Rome. You can access the programme and presentations here. You can access the Final Report here.

The video "Overview of EDXL Emergency Standards" is now available in both English and Italian. You can access the English version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eoV5XwZVO8 and the Italian version at https://vimeo.com/234306686?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220.

Mert Gencturk from SRDC Corp, a spin-off from the Middle East Technical University, Software Research and Development Center (METU-SRDC) discusses his work on the C2-SENSE Project, a project to a develop a profile-based Emergency Interoperability Framework that exposes the functionalities of C2 Systems, Sensor Systems and other emergency/crisis management systems. The framework uses the OASIS CAP, EDXL SitRep, EDXL RM, EDXL HAVE and EDXL TEP standards. C2-SENSE is a joint project of 8 partners from France (SAFRAN), Austria (AIT), Italy (LUTECH, REGOLA, Innova Puglia, Regione Puglia), Turkey (SRDC) and Poland (PIAP). Watch the full presentation here: https://youtu.be/lDwlAYsshN0: 17 July 2017

HL7 and OASIS Announce Joint Publication of Implementation Guide to Advance Emergency and Disaster Response; 20 Sept 2016 This Committee Note (OASIS) and Implementation Guide (HL7) is a bidirectional transformation specification between the OASIS message for Tracking of Emergency Patients and the HL7 message for the admit/discharge/transfer of patients in hospital administration systems.

On August 23-24, 2016 the international CAP Workshop 2016 was held in Bangkok, Thailand. You can access the presenters and presentations here. You can access the Final Report here.

On September 23-24, 2015 the international CAP Workshop was held in Rome. You can access the presentations here. You can access the Final Report here.

On 11 August 2015, the Emergency Management TC approved Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep)v1.0 as a Committee Specification Draft/Public Review Draft and arranged for the 60-Day public review.

On 15 October 2015 National Association of State Emergency Medical Service Officials (NASEMSO) signed a resolution calling for Completion and Implementation of a Data Standard for Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP)

On 04 August 2015, the Emergency Management TC approved Emergency Data Exchange Language Tracking of Emergency Patients (EDXL-TEP) 1.1 as a Committee Specification Draft/Public Review Draft and arranged for the 30-Day Public Review.

On 13 January 2015, the Emergency Management TC approved Emergency Data Exchange Language Hospital AValability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE) 2.0 as a Committee Specification Draft/Public Review Draft and arranged for the 60-Day Public Review.

Visit the Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) Activities page for more current topics.

Overview

The EM-TC creates vendor-neutral and platform agnostic standards for organizations and agencies to more easily exchange emergency information. The EM-TC welcomes participation from members of the emergency management and response community, developers and implementers, and members of the public concerned with disaster management and response.

The Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) is a broad initiative to create an integrated framework for a wide range of emergency data exchange standards to support operations, logistics, planning and finance.

Overview links below are provided for completed OASIS standards only. Non-linked items are works in progress. For most recent versions of all technical work see Technical Work Produced by the Committee

EM-TC standard efforts include:

For more information, see the TC Charter and FAQ

Subcommittees

  • EM CAP Profiles SC
    Designs, develops, and releases XML-based standards and specifications as CAP Profiles based on the CAP Standard.
  • EM CAP SC
    Provides ongoing maintenance of the CAP standard and related work.
  • EM GIS SC
    Ensures the proper use and integration of geographic standards in the development of EDXL standards.
  • EM HAVE SC
    Researches, analyzes, recommends, and organizes currently available information on implementation challenges and comments regarding the EDXL-HAVE standard.
  • EM Infrastructure Framework SC
    Produces a horizontal intellectual effort predicated on establishing a common set of EM infrastructure standards, regardless of originating industry and/or agency segment. In particular, it provides ongoing maintenance of the EDXL-DE standard and related work.
  • EM Messages and Notification SC
    Addresses procedures and formats for exchanging new and updated information related to functions including public safety, emergency response and homeland security. In particular, it provides ongoing maintenance of the EDXL-RM and EDXL-SitRep standards and related work.
  • EM Reference Information Model SC
    Creates the EDXL-RIM specification to provide a high-level, abstract, information model for the family of EDXL specifications. Provides guidance on extensions and constraints (profiles) and maintains Common Types, EDXL-CIQ and EDXL-GSF.
  • EM TEP SC
    Develops the OASIS EDXL-Tracking of Emergency Patients (EDXL-TEP) messaging standard, which assists emergency responders, coordinators and management in the exchange of emergency patient and EMS tracking information, thus increasing the effectiveness of emergency medical management, patient tracking and care, and family notification.
  • EM TEC SC
    Develops the OASIS EDXL-Tracking of Emergency Clients (EDXL-TEC) messaging standard to facilitate the tracking of evacuees and other displaced persons during emergencies, disasters, and routine day-to-day incidents, the transport of such emergency clients to shelters, and the repatriation and reunification of emergency clients with their families.
  • EM Adoption SC
    The former EM Adoption SC has migrated to the OASIS Emergency Management Adoption TC

TC Liaisons

On January 1, 2015 Health Level Seven International and OASIS signed a Statement of Understanding formalizing a liaison agreement between the two organizations.

TC Tools and Approved Publications

Technical Work Produced by the Committee

Developers please note: Internet searches may lead to earlier versions of schemas, which may cause confusion, if used as implementation directive.
To ensure that you get the versions that correspond to the published standards, please retrieve them only from the following selection.

  • Common Alerting Protocol 1.2 (EDXL-CAP v1.2, Schema)
    • Warning:

    The current posting for this standard contains the wrong .bmp for the DOM and hence does not reflect one of the submitted changes. The good news is that the normative portion of the document is okay (except bold is missing from MIME type, which would indicate the other change that MIME type is required). The TC is working with the TC Administrator to correct the situation.

    - EDXL-CAP 1.2 Profiles:
  • Common Alerting Protocol 1.1 (EDXL-CAP v1.1) incorporating Errata
    • - EDXL-CAP 1.1 Profile(s):
  • Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element 1.0 (EDXL-DE v1.0)

  • Emergency Data Exchange Language Hospital AVailability Exchange 2.0 (EDXL-HAVE v2.0)
    • - xsd Schemas:

  • Emergency Data Exchange Language Hospital AVailability Exchange 1.0 (EDXL-HAVE v1.0) incorporating Draft Errata
    • - xsd Schemas:

  • Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging 1.0 (EDXL-RM v1.0) incorporating Draft Errata
    • - xsd Schemas:

  • Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting 1.0 (EDXL-SitRep v1.0)
    • - xsd Schemas:

Expository Work Produced by the Committee

External Resources

Although not produced by the OASIS Emergency Management TC, the following information offers useful insights into its work.

Mailing Lists and Comments

emergency: the list used by TC members to conduct Committee work. TC membership required to post. TC members are automatically subscribed; the public may view archives.

emergency-comment: a public mail list for providing input to the OASIS emergency Technical Committee members. Subscribe or view archives.*

emergency-dev: an unmoderated, public mail list that provides an open forum for developers to exchange ideas and information on implementing the emergency OASIS Standard. Subscribe or view archives.*

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Additional Information

Meeting Schedule:

  • TC Meetings: Regular TC conference calls are held every other Tuesday at 12:00 P.M. EST/EDT
  • Subcommittee Meetings: Please see appropriate subcommittee page for specifics.

In The News: press coverage can be found under the press link.

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