21 February 2008.  Avistar Communications Corporation is collaborating with Emergency Vehicle Solutions, Inc. (EVS), one of Northern California’s largest emergency vehicle equipment suppliers, on an initiative that aims to put Avistar C3 videoconferencing technology to work on the front line to enhance emergency response capabilities.

When deployed in police, fire...   (read article)

18 October 2007.  AMD Telemedicine, a world leader in developing, marketing and providing training for telemedicine equipment, has created a Deployable Telemedicine Kit. Its new deployable kit will speed the execution and management of trauma services and clinical emergency care for those who need it most  

The company is working to identify disaster org...   (read article)

24 July 2007.  The Aethra Vega X5 high performance set-top videoconferencing systems deployed inside the Network Emergency Response Vehicles (NERV), which are part of the new Crisis Management Services from IBM/Cisco. These were on show at Networkers 2007, Cisco’s North American Annual User’s Conference held from July 23-26 in Anaheim, California. 

The Vega X...   (read article)

18 June 2007. Training firefighters and paramedics just got easier for the Green Bay Fire Department in Wisconsin. The department implemented a Polycom videoconferencing solution to link seven fire stations and provide vital training to staff members.

Using videoconferencing, the Green Bay Fire Department has eliminated the need for off-duty training and the fuel costs...   (read article)

6 March 6, 2007. British Petroleum’s Republic of Georgia Geo-Operations Support Division has awarded a contract to Applied Global Technologies to provide two Mobile Emergency Response Communication platforms to British Petroleum’s Republic of Georgia Geo-Operations Support Division. This BP Division is responsible for the communications and coordination efforts for emergency re...   (read article)

12 September 2006. What happens if a pandemic virus occurs, and a wave of cyber-attacks, quickly spreads across the globe, isolating U.S. cities from federal assistance, and knocking out power, cell phone service and Internet access. That was the scenario tested recently at Strong Angel III, a major collaborative disaster-response exercise between civil and military organizatio...   (read article)

11 October 2004.  More than 5,000 emergency medical service personnel (EMS) in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska’s Aleutian Islands now have access to training in topics such as initial trauma assessment, head and spinal trauma, trauma assessment of children and other critical care issues.

 Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS) was awarded a $111,000 grant to expand live ...   (read article)

12 October 2004. The Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) has chosen Stratos Global Corp. to provide emergency response communications, including vehicular and mobile terminals for the dependable transmission of video and voice communications between on-the-scene responders and headquarters locations. FDNY will primarily use the technology to facilitate video conferencing between on-t...   (read article)