The OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee has approved the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) 1.0 as a Committee Draft and submitted the package for public review. This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. The public review ends 18 December 2007.

US Dept of Homeland Security, AtHoc, ESI Acquisition, KITS, Raytheon,
Warning Systems, and Others Collaborate on Emergency Interoperability

The consortium is pleased to announce the formation of the OASIS Emergency Interoperability (EI) Member Section. This new group will work to accelerate the development, adoption, application, and implementation of emergency interoperability and communications standards. The Member Section will represent and serve the needs of all constituents in the marketplace; practitioners, technology providers, and national, international and multinational oversight agencies are all strongly encouraged to join this effort.