HAvBED 2: Hospital Available Beds for Emergencies and Disasters

A Sustainable Bed Availability Reporting System

Final Report

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HAvBED 2 (Hospital Available Beds for Emergencies and Disasters) is a sustainable bed availability reporting system resident at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to be used at a national, regional, or local level as a management tool to help systems and regions care for a surge of patients in the event of a mass casualty incident. HAvBED 2 builds on the initial HAvBED released by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in 1995 as a demonstration project. HAvBED 2 is operational now at https://havbed.hhs.gov/default/login.aspx. This report details the system's development.

HAvBED 2 was developed by AHRQ with funding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).

This report was prepared by Denver Health, Denver, Colarado, under Contract No. HHSA2902006000201.

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Investigators
Stephen V. Cantrill, M.D., Principal Investigator
Peter T. Pons, M.D., Co-Principal Investigator

EMC² Subcontractor Contributors:
Scott Daub
Chad Sawinski
Janet McIllece
Sheryl Rahmani

Contents

I. Summary
II. Purpose/Objectives
III. Background
IV. Methods
V. Results
   A. Hospital Bed Definitions and Data Elements
   B. System-to-System Communication Protocol
   C. Database and Web Development
   D. Interface and Manual Data Entry
   E. Enhancements Made to the Sustainable HAvBED System Compared with the Demonstration System
   F. HAvBED and the National Incident Management System
   G. Demonstration of the HAvBED Production System
VI. Recommendations for Implementation
   A. Conceptual Recommendations
   B. Technical Recommendations
Appendix. Advisory Group Members

More Information

If you have any questions about AHRQ's emergency preparedness program, contact:

Sally Phillips, R.N., Ph.D.
Director
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program
E-mail: Sally.Phillips@ahrq.hhs.gov

AHRQ Publication No. 09-0058-EF
Current as of April 2009

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Internet Citation:

HAvBED 2: Hospital Available Beds for Emergencies and Disasters. A Sustainable Bed Availability Reporting System. Final Report. AHRQ Publication No. 09-0058-EF, April 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/havbed2/

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