Smith Information Services

Over the past twenty years, Smith's Pandemic Event Risk Gradings has enhanced its proprietary and unique database, which started in 1992. SRG's ongoing real-time surveys includes Smith's Sentiment Indicators that include social media. Smith's Research & Gradings (SRG) tracks the out­break of disease and pestilence under Smith's Pandemic Event Risk Gradings. The list of events includes the plague, influenza, West Nile Virus, and new "superbugs". Smith's Pandemic Event Risk Gradings for critical infrastructure assets are highly sensitive for prisons (Federal/State/Local), Hospitals (Profit/ Non-Profit) and CCRCs and Public Transit (subways, light rail, buses, airports) under Smith's Gradings Methodology for Critical Infrastructure Assets.

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SRG's Pandemic Event Risk Gradings underscore why mapping incidents simply isn't enough. The use of GIS can help in tracking the spread but is of little or no use in preventing the spread of a disease. It can quickly jump from medical workers to other carriers when crossing international borders. SRG takes a critical access and target-centric approach with its predictive intelligence tools.

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Smith's Pandemic Gradings are driven by principles that are put into practice and are constantly being tested in the real world.

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• Need for health facility communications with federal and local health authorities;

• Need for continuity of operations plans and contingency systems to maintain delivery of essential goods and services;

• Need for pre-planned op­tions for working offsite, and for worker and worker family education to improve internal/external surveillance;

• strengthening all supply chain and distribution processes for goods and services;

• Monitoring regional/national/international pandemic threat levels for trigger point changes that will affect the business;

• Collaborating with government officials and community stakeholders for mutual support and to share planning, preparedness, response and recovery information; and

• Establishing partnerships with other members of the business sector to provide mutual support and maintenance of essential services during a pandemic.