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Description
ASPR Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange
ASPR’s Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) is a healthcare emergency preparedness information gateway that ensures that all stakeholders—at the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government levels; in nongovernmental organizations; and in the private sector—have access to information and resources to improve preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts.
ASPR’s HHS emPOWER Map
The HHS emPOWER Map is a public and interactive map that provides the de-identified total number of Medicare beneficiary claims for certain electricity-dependent medical and assistive equipment that include: ventilators, oxygen concentrators, enteral feeding machines, intravenous (IV) infusion pumps, suction pumps, at-home dialysis machines, wheelchairs, scooters, and beds.  The data is updated monthly and provided both geospatially and in table format at the national, state, territory, county and zip code levels.
Centers for Disease Control Response and Recovery Web Resources
A list of links to the Center for Disease Control's  Response and Recovery Resources
Critical Infrastructure Protection Disaster Response Resources
The Critical Infrastructure Protection branch is the agency lead for the Healthcare and Public Health Sector.  Key activities within the branch include infrastructure risk analysis and prioritization, cybersecurity initiative coordination for HHS, emergency operation liaison with private sector partners during emergencies, and sector lead for developing, evaluating, and implementing protection measures related to critical infrastructure all hazards threating government and private sector partners .
Ensuring Access to Quality Health Care Programs for CMS Beneficiarries - SME Support
In any kind of event that adversely impacts beneficiaries of CMS programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP) and Health Insurance Marketplaces) CMS possesses a wealth of programmatic knowledge at headquarters and in the each CMS regional office to assist in response and recovery efforts. Additionally staff located in Washington DC, possess subject matter expertise in activities and policies related to Continuity of Operations (COOP) Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery.
Fusion Analytics Capabilities
Fusion Analytics is a web-based data analysis and visualization tool that integrates multiple real-time, event-related data sources to support decision making during emergency responses. Fusion Analytics runs 24/7 and can be accessed on the HHS network, at home, or in the field as long as you have an “HHS.gov” email address.
Fusion Social Media Capabilities
Social Media Tracking is a capability performed by Fusion Division analysts who monitor social media and open source data analytics, and incorporate these data with traditional sources for enhanced situational awareness. Fusion uses social media data to conduct long term trend analysis regarding relevant public health emergency information, as well as to conduct real-time event monitoring during planned and no-notice events.
GeoHEALTH
GeoHEALTH is Fusion’s secure Geographic Information System (GIS) based, electronic, interactive mapping application. This application incorporates information from numerous sources both internal and external to HHS. It includes other federal and public agencies such as (NOAA, USGS as well as other NGOs) into a single visual environment for enhanced situational awareness, assessment, and management of resources for planning, response to natural, man-made or pandemic events
National Incident Support Teams
The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) National Incident Support Teams (NIST) provides resources and assistance to State, Tribal and local health authorities throughout the United States, usually as the Commissioned Corps component of an Incident Response Coordination Team (IRCT). They were created in 2009 as part of the National Response Framework’s ESF-8 public health and medical asset provisions. They may be deployed in response to an ESF-8 or non-ESF-8 public health emergency.
National Library of Medicine’s PEOPLE LOCATOR® Family Reunification
People Locator is an information resource composed of a reporting tools (apps) and a central website for the public to speed family reunification after mass casualty or other events where family dislocation is involved using both text and photo search by reporting lost and found persons and their general health status.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response - Liaison Officers
ASPR Liaison Officers (LNOs) can be deployed to state and local public health offices during an incident to provide guidance and subject matter expertise on Federal public health and medical services assets.
Recovery – Coordination of the Health and Social Services Recovery Support Function
The National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) established the Health and Social Services (H&SS) Recovery Support Function (RSF) to assist locally-led recovery efforts to restore or improve disaster-impacted public health, health care and social services capabilities and networks.  Health and social services recovery promotes resilience, health and well-being of affected individuals and communities. 
Regional Emergency Coordinators
Regional Emergency Coordinators (RECs) serve as ASPR’s primary representatives throughout the country at the regional level. Building relationships with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officials and healthcare representatives (partners and stakeholders) in order to conduct planning for effective federal emergency response, and to facilitate coordinated preparedness and response activities for public health and medical emergencies, is the main role of the RECs.
Regional Incident Support Teams
The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Regional Incident Support Teams (RIST) provides rapid assessments and initial incident coordination resources and assistance to State, Tribal and local health authorities within defined regions of the United States. They were created in 2009 as part of the National Response Framework’s ESF-8 public health and medical asset provisions. Like all Commissioned Corps response teams, they may be deployed in response to an ESF-8 or non-ESF-8 public health emergency or to meet urgent health needs. Each RIST is a short-term response asset available to Regional Emergency Coordinators and Regional Health Administrators within the region.