These notes describe updates in the eICS 5.8 release scheduled for Wednesday, April 30, 2025. More information is available in this help center or by contacting
The internal and external people that participate in, might be affected by, or need to be notified about an incident. the Juvare Support Center at +1 (877) 771-0911 or support@juvare.com.
New Features
Search Positions in the ICS Chart
On the ICS Chart tab of the Incident Dashboard, you can now search for positions or contacts by name.
Enhancements
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HICS
Hospital Incident Command System, an incident management framework for healthcare organizations. 258 Form: In the 258 Hospital Resource Directory, the contact's organization Official entities, such as public health authorities, healthcare agencies, and corporations. is displayed in the Personal Contact and Contact Name columns. -
Resource Requests: When you create a Incident Dashboard Resource Requests as part of an incident, it only appears in that incident. Previously, resource requests could appear in other incidents for the same facility. This change will not remove existing resource requests from any incidents.
Resource requests are part of the Coordinated Response premium plug-in.
Opt-In Features
Clients can opt in to enable new features for managing contacts, sharing files, and sending notifications An alert, update, advisory, information, drill, or test message that can be sent & received through delivery methods such as email, voice, text, fax, or inbox.. If you have not opted in, these features are not enabled and do not affect you yet. You may request to opt in at any time as we continue to update these features. For more information, see Opt-In Features.
This release includes the following enhancement to the opt-in features A feature that is not enabled by default for a product. This feature may not be available because it is a premium feature or may not yet be publicly accessible.:
Accounts Used to track and manage users. Accounts differ from your profile, which is used to modify personal settings for using the solution.: The Primary Employer field in accounts now syncs to the Organization field in contacts.
Previous Versions
Release notes for previous versions are available here.