{"id":9716,"date":"2020-04-30T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:59:13","slug":"the-regional-government-emergency-response-and-monitoring-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/the-regional-government-emergency-response-and-monitoring-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Regional Government Emergency Response and Monitoring Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, hospitals had to quickly adapt their operations to care for the surge of new cases. Working closely with local healthcare providers, Microsoft developed a Hospital Emergency Response Solution<\/strong><\/a> that helped track bed capacity and key resources. Now, state and local governments have come together to help monitor regional healthcare systems, facilitate emergency responses, and assist in the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE). Continued monitoring of healthcare capacity and supplies across a region is critical to safely re-opening economies. The insights gained by Microsoft from working closely with healthcare providers and state governments has now been translated into a new Regional Government Emergency Response and Monitoring solution<\/strong> built on Microsoft Power Platform.<\/p>\n

The Regional Government Emergency Response and Monitoring solution provides an aggregated view of COVID-19 cases, bed capacity, equipment usage, supplies, and staff across a large region. The solution was designed to meet the needs of both healthcare providers and state or regional public health departments. Mobile healthcare workers can quickly provide updated counts on their terms and in their time frame. The solution is built on\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0Power Apps<\/strong>\u00a0Portal<\/strong> and Microsoft\u00a0Power BI<\/strong>. It can be rapidly deployed across large geographic regions and across a variety of healthcare facilities including hospitals, clinics, elderly care, and long term care centers.\u00a0Near real-time dashboards<\/strong> provide all organizations visibility into critical data necessary to establish situational awareness and coordinate responses.<\/p>\n

The Regional Government Emergency Response and Monitoring solution has now been adopted by the State of Washington Department of Health and deployed to over 115 hospitals across the state.<\/p>\n

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“During an unprecedented public health crisis, the project team at Microsoft stood up a highly functional database with an engaging user interface that we rapidly deployed to every hospital across the state. The WA HEALTH platform gives health officials and hospitals a powerful shared view of our health care system\u2019s state of readiness on any given day. It will be an indispensable tool as we confront the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for an influx of patients.”<\/em> –\u00a0Clark Halvorson,\u00a0Assistant Secretary, Emergency Preparedness and Response,\u00a0Washington State Department of Health<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Get the full instructions for how you can implement the solution in this documentation.<\/a>
\nWatch the Power Platform Regional Government Emergency Response and Monitoring solution video.<\/a><\/p>\n

The solution involves several components.<\/p>\n

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Portal for healthcare providers and regional agencies<\/h2>\n

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