This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":3002,"date":"2010-01-28T17:35:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:35:14","slug":"a-wireless-emergency-and-disaster-preparedness-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/a-wireless-emergency-and-disaster-preparedness-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wireless Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiser.nlm.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">WISER<\/a>, the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders, is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents, as well as during training sessions and exercises in preparation for such events.\u00a0 WISER provides rapid access to a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3054\" src=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2010\/01\/6.WISER_.jpg\" alt=\"6.WISER\" width=\"489\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2010\/01\/6.WISER_.jpg 489w, https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2010\/01\/6.WISER_-300x45.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Developed by the National Library of Medicine, WISER is available for Microsoft Windows\u2122 platforms (both PCs and Windows Mobile devices) and Palm OS mobile devices. <a href=\"http:\/\/wiser.nlm.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a> WISER free-of-charge. A <a href=\"http:\/\/webwiser.nlm.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web-based WISER<\/a> supports Web browsers for both PCs and PDAs, including BlackBerry and iPhone.<br \/>\nTraining materials, including scenario-based modules, are also available for <a href=\"http:\/\/wiser.nlm.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">downloading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of this article were reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/wiser.nlm.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">WISER<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~ Linda Hartman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WISER, the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders, is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents, as well as during training sessions and exercises in preparation for such events.\u00a0 WISER provides rapid access to a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-february-2010","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}