Incident management system comparison: Hospital Incident Command System versus Major Incident Medical Management and Support

Abstract

The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) and Medical Major Incident Management System (MMIMS) are incident management systems that any hospital may utilize to deal with threats, scheduled events, or emergencies. Both are valuable systems since they provide an organizational framework for incident management and include planning, developing, and adjusting that structure. HICS is used in the United States and MMIMS in the United Kingdom. The aim of this study is to find and show the difference, elements, and concepts of MIMMS and HICS. A scoping review of relevant papers and documents for the HICS was conducted. Medical Incident Command System, HICS, Healthcare Incident Command System, MMIMS, and Major Incident Management System are all referred to the same definition of HICS that was mentioned in the introduction. This research took place from March through June of 2022. From January 1, 1995, to June 15, 2022, all publications, books, guidelines, and manuals were extracted. We searched PubMed, Ovid, Springer, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar for articles. In conclusion, the main principles, strengths and weak points, and characteristics of the HICS and MMIMS appear to be the same. The differences were specified in the elements and chain of commands, which were designed to the geographic and governmental factors. Both systems are efficient and competent to achieve the goal of HICS but should be applied within the country's borders as it is an integrated system.

Keywords

• disaster medicine
• hospital incident command system
• medical major incident management system