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 ensure 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: 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: NEMSIS is a guidance document ○ Larry: I can bring in a NEMSIS representative - Dr Craig Niers?? ○ Jean: How do you handle unidentified patients?