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# Emergency Response Management

Use the objects, fields, and metadata that extend Salesforce for Emergency Response Management.

- **[Emergency Response Management Standard and Custom Objects](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.health_cloud_object_reference.meta/health_cloud_object_reference/erm_hc_api_objects.htm)**  
    Salesforce Emergency Response Management provides a rich set of standard and custom objects to store and access emergency response information.
- **[Emergency Response Management Custom Fields on Standard Objects](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.health_cloud_object_reference.meta/health_cloud_object_reference/hc_erm_custom_fields.htm)**  
    Emergency Response Management adds custom fields to some standard Salesforce objects.
- **[Emergency Response Management Business APIs](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.health_cloud_object_reference.meta/health_cloud_object_reference/hc_erm_business_apis.htm)**  
    Use Business APIs for building integrations or for creating custom UI components. The APIs wrap complex business logic by executing multiple tasks within a single API call. They aim to fulfill business use cases specific to the healthcare industry, such as loading details of contact encounters into the system.