The National Emergency Number Association and the COMCARE Emergen...
The National Emergency Number Association and the COMCARE Emergency Response Alliance jointly called on the Department of Homeland Security to play a more significant role in developing next-generation emergency data standards. A letter from them says responder agencies will…
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soon be able to send and receive data in various forms, such as live video. Agencies may find it impossible to share new forms of data unless it’s standardized, the letter said. “A variety of data, including vehicle telematics, personal medical information, and chemical/biological detection data, will be coming into emergency agencies,” said Judith Woodhall, executive director of COMCARE. The next generation “emergency communications system needs to be an intelligent system that is able to read standardized data to help it make routing and processing decisions based on certain components of data. And, this has to happen prior to human interaction at the receiving ends.”