JH [Johns Hopkins University] offers free software tool for large-scaledisaster planning [Johns Hopkins Gazette; 09Feb09] - "A team of Johns Hopkins experts isoffering a free Web-based tool it developed to predict the impact onindividual hospitals of a flu epidemic, bioterrorist attack, flood or planecrash, accounting for such elements as numbers of victims, germ-carryingwind patterns, available medical resources, bacterial incubation periods andbomb size.
Called EMCAPS, for Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios,the software program is believed to be the first that generates theanticipated outcomes of disaster-planning scenarios developed by theDepartment of Homeland Security.The program can be downloaded from the CEPAR Web site,http://www.hopkins-cepar.org/EMCAPS/EMCAPS.html
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