Pandemic planning pushed by the federal goverment
Due to prodding frome the federal government, state health departments nationwide are rushing to complete "Crisis Standards of Care" plans to guide medical professionals during catastrophes like pandemics and terror attacks, and to determine what should trigger the plans.
In disaster planning when a pandemic occurs the data center exists but people often are in separate locations. The Disaster Planning and Business Continuity Planning processes need to make the user and business operating experience is as similar as possible so that the work environment is the same in the remote site (often home) as in the office.
Under the proposed approach, once a disaster is designated a crisis, care would shift from focusing on individual patients to sharing "limited resources" so that there are "best possible health outcomes for the population as a whole," as described by the Institute of Medicine, a national advisory body. That could mean people without acute conditions are denied hospital admission, scarce antiviral medicine is distributed more selectively, medical equipment is substituted with other devices, and people judged unlikely to survive don't get typical interventions.