Course Description

The New York State Evacuation of Facilities in Disasters Systems (eFINDS) is the patient/resident tracking application housed on the Health Commerce System (HCS).
This course provides a solid foundation for registering and updating patient/resident location information during an incident or event, such as a storm, flood, non-natural incident or practice ex-ercise/drill.

Course participants will be provided a demonstration of eFINDS application including: eFINDS Data Reporter and eFINDS Data Administrator role permissions; how to register a patient/resident with a scanner and without; use a spreadsheet to register multiple patient/residents; update patient/resident tracking infor-mation as an evacuating facility, and as a receiving facility.

Please be assigned to either the eFINDS Data Reporter, eFINDS Reporting Administrator or the eFINDS Reader role prior to training, and know where your eFINDS supplies (wristbands, scanner and PDF log files) are located.