Free Software

JH [Johns Hopkins University] offers free software tool for large-scale
disaster planning
[Johns Hopkins Gazette; 09Feb09] - "A team of Johns Hopkins experts is
offering a free Web-based tool it developed to predict the impact on
individual hospitals of a flu epidemic, bioterrorist attack, flood or plane
crash, accounting for such elements as numbers of victims, germ-carrying
wind patterns, available medical resources, bacterial incubation periods and
bomb size.
Called EMCAPS, for Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios,
the software program is believed to be the first that generates the
anticipated outcomes of disaster-planning scenarios developed by the
Department of Homeland Security.
The program can be downloaded from the CEPAR Web site,
http://www.hopkins- cepar.org/ EMCAPS/EMCAPS. html