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LifeTrac Selected as Finalist for National Homeland Security Award
Mitretek Systems and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard’s prestigious JFK School, have selected the LifeTrac program as one of the five finalist for the prestigious Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security.
The Birmingham Regional Emergency Medical Services System (BREMSS) operates a regional trauma, stroke, divert,and bio/chem terrorism monitoring system to assure patients are always routed to the closest available hospital to treat their emergency.
The system utilizes LifeTrac, which is a state-of-the-art technology that directs the efforts of an emergency medical system to efficiently deal with emergency room, trauma center, stroke center availability, as well as hospital diversion coordination. Forte' Incorporated, the technology partner for this project, is one of many public and several private project partners for the BREMSS system.
LifeTrac monitors for bio-chem events and assists in mass casualty incidents for the participating 14 hospital network. The system is built around a unique, wide-area computer network that connects multiple hospital emergency departments to exchange critical, life-saving information as well as coordination of ambulance routing, air ambulance responses and data collection.
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—to the nation’s homeland security concerns. The criteria for this award assume that the "best practices" to be adopted in the future are emerging from practitioners operating in the field today.
The recipient of the Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security is determined by a distinguished national panel of experts in the field of homeland security, chaired by Judge William H. Webster. From a broad field of national applicants, five finalists for the Award are selected and subjected to a site evaluation. Representatives of each finalist program made presentations to the national selection committee at Harvard on April 18, 2006. The announcement of the winner of the Award will be made in the Summer of 2006.
The Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security represents an important collaboration between Mitretek Systems, a nonprofit scientific research and engineering corporation that operates in the public interest, and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, sponsor of the Innovations in American Government Awards.
Mitretek Systems is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), scientific research and engineering corporation that operates in the public interest. Mitretek applies expertise in conjunction with objectivity and independence to address challenges of national significance in areas such as homeland and national security, healthcare, energy and environment, and transportation.
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government fosters excellence in government around the world in order to generate and strengthen democracy. Through its awards program, research, publications, curriculum support, and global network, the Institute champions critical milestones and effective governance and democratic practice.