Communications and Alerting CoP

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The CACoP supports all aspects of alerting, voice and applicable data communications technologies (e.g. PHIN MS) required to meet the state and CDC missions in support of PHIN.

Location: Nationwide
Members: 67
Latest Activity: Feb 4

This is the meeting and workspace for the CACoP.

Our community currently has an announcement mailing list in addition to this space. To subscribe, send an email to listserv@listserv.cdc.gov and type the following in the BODY (not the subject line) of the email:
SUBSCRIBE CACOP-PHIN Yourfirstname Yourlastname
Please replace the text in italics with your actual first and last name. Do not include any other text in the email (such as a signature) or it will return an error.

You should receive an automated message confirming your subscription. If you do not, please send an email to phin@cdc.gov with the subject line “COP”.

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Comment by Dan Desmond on February 4, 2010 at 5:30pm: Tom:
Let me know what info you need, we have them for a few states across the country as well as some of the regional ones. I am seeing the CA DMAT gang this afternoon.

Comment by Tiffany Magee on February 4, 2010 at 2:59pm: Hi Tom,
In California the DMAT Teams are coordinated by the Emergency Medical Services Authority. You can go to their website at www.emsa.ca.gov or call 916-322-4336. Hope this helps!

Comment by Tom Boeckmann on February 4, 2010 at 2:48pm: A bit off topic but need some help. Do any states have state level Disaster Medical Assistance Teams? I have the contact information for the federal teams but need contact info on state-level teams for a project we're working in Iowa. Thanks for the help!

Tom.Boeckmann@idph.state.ia.us

Comment by John McLamb on January 20, 2010 at 3:49pm: LINK to the Public Health and ONC-ARRA HITECT Stimulus Funding Presentation from Sept. 29,2009:
Here is the link to the slides on the Public Health Institutes Website:
http://www.phii.org/resources/doc_details.asp?id=149

I did not see the audio for it on the website. If anyone finds it please post it..

The first presentation was from Kelly Cronin. She is a director in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and has been involved in establishing and evolving the national agenda for HIT.

Comment by John McLamb on January 20, 2010 at 1:48pm: Thanks Tom, well anyway, it seems a problem has been discovered that needed to be.....i can rationalized just about anything...i hate spam as much as anyone and I had no idea that this was even from the HAN user group in the list, i thought it was perhaps PHIN coordinators...it seems that the list serv's policy should be not allow replies and only posting to the list serv or personal replies to the sender...but as you said the list serv was only setup to send out alert then the inital message sent, as you said, was out of scope for this purpose...but should still allow replies? I still should know better though and be more careful especially when replying.

Comment by Myrlah Olson on January 20, 2010 at 1:48pm: Hi: I can't find the Big 9 plus backups I've entered in PHINDir. Step by step instructions for locating each state's list of people would be useful. Thanks.

Comment by Tom Boeckmann on January 20, 2010 at 1:35pm: I understand John and there's no problem with you hitting reply all. I'm concerned that this email address was available to someone at CDC when it was set up for alerts only

Comment by John McLamb on January 20, 2010 at 1:17pm: I apologize for setting off the chain, the reply all was a mistake on my part and a mis keyed from being in a hurry. But I think the list should NOT allow replies in case of mistakes like this....

Comment by Robert Scheel on January 20, 2010 at 12:52pm: I'll echo Tom's concerns. This also contacted our Duty Officer and caused confusion at that level. The 'reply all' was just salt in the wound...

Comment by Tom Boeckmann on January 20, 2010 at 12:46pm: Just received the email from Marilyn Windle and the reply all from John McLamb. Somehow they got the email address that we gave to CDC for alerting. Their emails went to over 25 people within the dept and set off 40+ pagers. Will this happen in the future? If so, that email address needs to be removed. Anyone know who to contact at CDC? I can't keep up with the contacts anymore. In the "olden" days, HAN Coordinators were given a contact list...

Yes - I'm upset!!