Disaster/Emergency Response
Gather and Disseminate Critical Data Without Delay
Digital form and workflow automation solutions instill the nimbleness agencies need to respond to crises quickly and keep the public up-to-date on the most current developments.
Challenge
So much important information is coming in from multiple sources during a natural disaster or public emergency. Municipalities are under immense pressure to aggregate, verify, and release pertinent details post haste.
Solution
The SimpliGov platform helps state and local governments take control in emergency situations and inform the citizenry expediently by helping to:
- Gather critical data, such as:
- Impacted area (streets, neighborhoods, longitude/latitude coordinates, UTM coordinates)
- Resources deployed
- Residential, commercial, and public property threatened/damaged/destroyed
- Number of endangered citizens (injured, dead, trapped, missing, evacuated, sheltered, sheltering in place, quarantined, requiring immunization, etc.)
- Threat status
- 12-, 24-, 48-, 72-hour timelines for expected containment, spread, and deployment of additional resources
- Instantly integrate data submitted from emergency responders, field workers, NGOs, volunteers, office personnel, and other sources
- Present relevant data to communications departments and press secretaries for speedy creation of press releases and public service announcements
Features Used: Workflow Automation | Smart Forms | Document Generation | SimpliSign | Application Integration | Performance Analytics | Collaboration
SimpliGov in Action
- Intuitive digital form builder with customizable fields, dropdown menus, yes/no buttons, checkboxes, and text boxes
- Prebuilt and tailorable form templates
- Headers to organize data categories (e.g., impacted geographies, resources, timeline)
- SimpliForms capability—import and convert existing PDFs (e.g., ICS-209 forms)
- Autopopulation of fields (e.g., neighborhoods completed upon entry of GPS coordinates)
- Translation support for dozens of languages
- Workflow automation to route completed forms to appropriate personnel across multiple departments and agencies
- Autogenerated email alerts to prompt reviewers
- Content management—instant, automatic, and accurate synthesis of data simultaneously inputted from multiple sources
- Continuous Case Management (CCM) capability—complete and continuously save digital forms as you work offline in remote areas with spotty internet connectivity
- Built-in calculators for property damage estimates
- Role-based permissions—limit who can view fields, forms, and audit trails
- Dashboard to retrieve current status of response and resource allocation
- Generation of reports by any field
- Integration with GIS/mapping applications and existing legacy databases
- SimpliSign electronic signature add-on
Benefits
- Municipalities put best public safety foot forward
- Faster response time
- Agility to course correct as situations change
- Government’s many moving parts work together seamlessly
- Compliance with state and federal reporting standards
Ready to begin?
Automating your processes need not be a daunting task. Contact us and we will show you how SimpliGov can help you achieve your goals in record time.
Ready to begin?
Automating your processes need not be a daunting task. Contact us and we will show you how SimpliGov can help you achieve your goals in record time.
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