The Role of SICMA Project
Modern crises are progressively changing their character from ‘predictable’ emergencies capable of being countered with existing crisis management tools and techniques, to unpredictable catastrophic events for which governments and first responders require new, innovative and affordable solutions.
Progress is needed on at least two fronts:
- ensuring governments, first responders and societies are better prepared prior for an incident, and
- improving the tools, infrastructures, procedures and organisational frameworks to respond and recover more efficiently and effectively both during, and after, an incident.
The use of simulation technologies can offer a big improvement on current practices because it allows the decision makers to evaluate different alternatives not just with static data but with continuously evolving scenarios in which:
- casualties are generated in response to certain events.
- each component of the emergency management system is simulated, giving insight into how the diverse elements of the architecture (i.e. different services or different components within one service) interact with one another throughout the entire scenario;
According to a step by step approach, the role of the SICMA project is to demonstrate if and how an integrated suite of modelling and analysis tools providing insights into the collective behaviour of the whole organisation in response to crisis scenarios could improve the effectiveness of the decision making process.
With respect to the context depicted above, the project will focus on:
- Crisis: the case study will be on those events requiring a response beyond the local community.
- Crisis Management: the project will address the preparedness and response phases of the emergency management process.
- Preparedness: within the planning process, the prototype will aim at supporting the evaluation of different options and identification of preferred one.
- Response: The project will focus mainly on Health Service (as case study) addressing also cooperation with other organization in terms of their effects on the Health service response.
- Medical Care: The main focus will be on the “Initial Phase” of the response i.e. till when the casualty flow into the hospitals stops. The reason is that: it is within the first minutes and hours following a true mass casualties disaster that the major differences in medical management from normal everyday care of injured patients becomes evident.
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