The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded its use of Send Word Now emergency notification from SWN Communications Inc., New York, NY, a provider of emergency notification and other on-demand alerting and response services. The NIH will extend its use of the SWN Alert Service across its main campus in Bethesda, MD and to NIH facilities in the Washington metropolitan area, and around the country. The system will be used to communicate time-sensitive and critical events to 35,000 emergency response personnel, employees, contractors and other users of the system.

The National Institutes of Health has used the Send Word Now solution since 2005 for urgent and emergency communication. This latest expansion is desinged to increase usage of the system organization-wide, enable rapid response in the event of a crisis, provide the ability to instantly mobilize staff and emergency response resources during a critical incident and facilitate secure and auditable information exchange enterprise-wide.

Source: SWN Communications Inc.