Risk, vulnerability and resilience analyses for pandemic management: Challenges and perspectives of approaches for the future

COVID-19 represents one of the greatest global challenges of the last decades in terms of medical, coordination and management aspects, but also on the societal and economic level. The borderline experience of dealing with such a complex, global event has shown that Austria - as the majority of countries and organizations - was inadequately prepared for a crisis of this kind in some areas. The call for a comprehensive, applicable and interoperable solution portfolio including evidence-based analysis of current processes/structures, tools and infrastructures as well as lessons learned from the current pandemic response, is evident. The “ROADS to Health” reflect this approach7, a holistic solution set up aiming at developing a technologically supported, clearly structured pandemic management for the future. Experiences from the current management will be processed and included in risk analyses to describe further, possible future pandemic scenarios in order to derive practical resilience strategies and develop connectable tool modules and a roadmap. "Strengthening strengths, bridging weaknesses" will be the overarching goal, taking into account specific, particularly relevant questions and tasks of the stakeholders as well as of other interested parties involved in management with regard to the actual prevention potential of current, isolated measures. Resilience is thus to be promoted in selected, particularly relevant areas and tools for reducing vulnerability are to be made available to decision-makers through a holistic approach. This keynote paper will draft the frame of this model by presenting the underlying background and basis of the ROADS to Health-solution set and open the floor for a wider range of perspectives of optimization in pandemic and crisis management. © 2021 IDIMT 2021 - Pandemics: Impacts, Strategies and Responses, 29th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks All rights reserved.

Interoperability and crisis management in pandemic outbreak scenarios an overview on different case studies of the austrian approach to tackle the SARS-CoV-2 spread and adherent management challenges

The global spread of the novel Corona Virus, SARS-CoV-2, in the first half of 2020, resulted in a massive strain of multiple and diverse crisis management structures all over the world. Interoperability of governmental and non-governmental responder organizations as well as of analysis and communication infrastructure were put under a real stress test and concepts of the response to this pandemic outbreak were rapidly set up, modified, changed, and applied according to multiple integrated and changing data sources. Austria, as a country with a relatively mild development of the COVID effects, will be selected as a use case provider to exemplify lessons learned. This paper will give a comprehensive overview of the dynamic development of the initial and follow up steps. Examples from a public service provider AGES, the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, the research organization and technology provider AIT, and the first responder and social services organization Johanniter Unfallhilfe, will show lessons learned, good practice, but also challenges and open questions or gaps in the wake of this complex crisis scenario. © 2019 by the authors.