Utah Notification

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Utah Notification Information System
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What is UNIS?

• Statewide notification system
• Secure website
• document sharing
• Statewide user directory
• For local and state emergency response agencies.
• No cost to participate in the system.

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What will UNIS do for me?

• Be NOTIFIED, Be INFORMED
• Share information with colleagues
• Secure website for document access
• Statewide directory

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How does UNIS work?

• Allow participants to rapidly receive and send
  urgent and routine notifications to a variety of
  communication devices.
• (phones, email, fax, pager, text message)
• Gives users a web-based location to coordinate
  and share information and documents.

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Alerting Capacity

• Phone port capacity 48 lines
• Ability to use another 84
• Potentially more in future (more servers
  purchased)

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Current UNIS Users

• 900 Users
• Variety of Disciplines
• Public Health, EMS, Hospitals, Clinics, Public
  Safety (Police/Fire), Environmental Quality,
  Agriculture Food, Mosquito Abatement, Emergency
  Management, Laboratories, Poison Control, Elected
  Officials, Military, Tribes, Schools, Red Cross,
  Others

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Agencies Using UNIS Alerting

• Utah Department of Health
• 85th CST
• IHC Hospitals
• U of U Hospital
• Mountain West Medical Center
• MMRS

• Utahs Public Health Departments
• EMS Strike Team
• Helper City
• State ITS
• UDEQ, UDAF, UDPS
• OPEN TO OTHERS

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Agency Specific Examples

• IHC Urban Central Region-Ann Allen
• EMS Strike Team-Don Marrelli
• 85th CST-SFC Joe Parker
• Helper City-George Zamantakis
• Mountain West Medical Center-Kip Thompson
• LHDs-Emergency Response Coordinator

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System Notification Demo
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UNIS Home Page
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Notifications

• Log in to access all notifications sent via UNIS.
• Permissions based- only see/share what you should.

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Document Library

• Remote access to documents.
• Permissions based-only have access to appropriate
  documents.

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Bulletin Board

• Place to share and collaborate.
• Again, permissions based-only have access to
  appropriate boards.

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Registration

• Complete short registration form
• Request an invitation to participate on UNIS
• send an email to unis_at_utah.gov

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UNIS Contact

• Questions?
• Dean Penovich
• 801-273-6657
• unis_at_utah.gov