PCCTech Minutes 2008 11 19

Pre-Hospital Care Report

• Larry Williams requests to represent Todd Rothenhouse by proxy
  • co-chair response: we will have to check the governance and see if such a representation requires a written notice.
• Purpose of this profile is to develop an implementaion guide for exchange of data in ambulance/ems to hopsital workflow.

• Jim Kragh with Good Health Network can bring in ambulance folks to help PCC understand data
• Jean Millar: Have other states implemented ECON registries?
  • Larry Williams: Yes
    • Ohio, Illinois, Maryland is next - legislation not passed yet, California - passed next of kin notificaiton

• Jean Millar: Is there sufficient time to ID victim?
  • Larry Williams: ID is critical, HITSP identifies a process for this. Non-Treatment identification - this ensures EMS doesn't spend time id-ing victim when they should be treating patient

• Jean Millar: Have there been cases of mis-identification?
  • Larry Williams: Prior to implementation of ECON system, yes, but not after implementation of ECON

• Thom Khun: Why are we creating a different document? Where is the form we are basing this on?
  • Larry Williams: There are 2 things there:
    • Can get examples from existings reports
    • HITSP ER use case defines an ambulance run report
  • Keith: Yes there is something - National EMS Information System (NEMSIS)
    • Larry Williams: NEMSIS is a guidance document
    • Larry Williams: I can bring in a NEMSIS representative - Dr Craig Niers??