* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Black River Entertainment Adds Traci Hite As Director Of Promotion, Southeast – MusicRow.com

    Black River Entertainment Welcomes Traci Hite as New Director of Southeast Promotion

    Entertainment Business Master’s Grad Launched Nonprofit to Nurture Emerging Artists – Full Sail University

    Entertainment Business Master’s Grad Launched Nonprofit to Nurture Emerging Artists – Full Sail University

    Review: At the Huntington, the New Hollywood String Quartet recalls legendary studio musicians – Los Angeles Times

    Review: At the Huntington, the New Hollywood String Quartet recalls legendary studio musicians – Los Angeles Times

    Kehoe repeals paid sick leave, allows several counties in the Ozarks to have entertainment districts in bill signings – KY3

    Kehoe repeals paid sick leave, allows several counties in the Ozarks to have entertainment districts in bill signings – KY3

    Emily Deschanel was scolded during “Bones” season 1 for being ‘late and unprepared’: ‘I was just beside myself’ – Yahoo

    Emily Deschanel was scolded during “Bones” season 1 for being ‘late and unprepared’: ‘I was just beside myself’ – Yahoo

    How you can see new movies early – Yahoo

    Unlock the Secret to Watching New Movies Before Everyone Else!

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Guest columnist: China cutting corners on technology – The State Journal

    China’s Rapid Tech Advances Spark Worries About Cutting Corners

    Sentrycs’ Cyber Over RF technology integrated into Rafael’s combat-proven Drone Dome system – Defence Industry Europe

    Sentrycs’ Cyber Over RF Technology Boosts Rafael’s Battle-Tested Drone Dome System

    Nordic Air Defence raises $3 million to expand operations and advance drone defence technology – Defence Industry Europe

    Nordic Air Defence Lands $3 Million to Transform Drone Defense and Supercharge Operations

    China’s energy dominance in three charts – MIT Technology Review

    How China Is Powering Its Energy Dominance: A Visual Breakdown

    Meta Acquires AI Startup PlayAI to Enhance Voice Technology Capa – GuruFocus

    Meta Acquires AI Startup PlayAI to Revolutionize Voice Technology Capabilities

    Stallion Uranium Provides Update on Technology Data Acquisition Agreement – GlobeNewswire

    Stallion Uranium Announces Exciting Progress in Technology Data Acquisition Agreement

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Black River Entertainment Adds Traci Hite As Director Of Promotion, Southeast – MusicRow.com

    Black River Entertainment Welcomes Traci Hite as New Director of Southeast Promotion

    Entertainment Business Master’s Grad Launched Nonprofit to Nurture Emerging Artists – Full Sail University

    Entertainment Business Master’s Grad Launched Nonprofit to Nurture Emerging Artists – Full Sail University

    Review: At the Huntington, the New Hollywood String Quartet recalls legendary studio musicians – Los Angeles Times

    Review: At the Huntington, the New Hollywood String Quartet recalls legendary studio musicians – Los Angeles Times

    Kehoe repeals paid sick leave, allows several counties in the Ozarks to have entertainment districts in bill signings – KY3

    Kehoe repeals paid sick leave, allows several counties in the Ozarks to have entertainment districts in bill signings – KY3

    Emily Deschanel was scolded during “Bones” season 1 for being ‘late and unprepared’: ‘I was just beside myself’ – Yahoo

    Emily Deschanel was scolded during “Bones” season 1 for being ‘late and unprepared’: ‘I was just beside myself’ – Yahoo

    How you can see new movies early – Yahoo

    Unlock the Secret to Watching New Movies Before Everyone Else!

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Guest columnist: China cutting corners on technology – The State Journal

    China’s Rapid Tech Advances Spark Worries About Cutting Corners

    Sentrycs’ Cyber Over RF technology integrated into Rafael’s combat-proven Drone Dome system – Defence Industry Europe

    Sentrycs’ Cyber Over RF Technology Boosts Rafael’s Battle-Tested Drone Dome System

    Nordic Air Defence raises $3 million to expand operations and advance drone defence technology – Defence Industry Europe

    Nordic Air Defence Lands $3 Million to Transform Drone Defense and Supercharge Operations

    China’s energy dominance in three charts – MIT Technology Review

    How China Is Powering Its Energy Dominance: A Visual Breakdown

    Meta Acquires AI Startup PlayAI to Enhance Voice Technology Capa – GuruFocus

    Meta Acquires AI Startup PlayAI to Revolutionize Voice Technology Capabilities

    Stallion Uranium Provides Update on Technology Data Acquisition Agreement – GlobeNewswire

    Stallion Uranium Announces Exciting Progress in Technology Data Acquisition Agreement

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Health

Tapping into the trove of standardized EMS data 

March 23, 2024
in Health
Tapping into the trove of standardized EMS data 
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Real-time insight into population health trends at the community level could be advanced by access to detailed and timely emergency medical response data, which is underutilized, said experts at HIMSS24 in Orlando this past week.

That’s often due to challenges with data quality and a lack of interoperability with state health information exchanges and other information systems, they explained, as they sought to inspire collaboration to increase interoperability and enhance public health surveillance. 

The session also explored some of the challenges to standardizing EMS data collection and technical pathways to improve quality and increase data accessibility across the healthcare ecosystem. 

WHY IT MATTERS

Emergency medical services – which are regulated in large part by the U.S. Department of Transportation, with room for modification from individual states – are the frontline support for place-based care and as such are a key partner for healthcare interoperability.

At HIMSS24, Erica Mattib, senior analyst at the University of Michigan’s Center for Health and Research Transformation, and Joshua Legler, an EMS data consultant for the National Emergency Medical Services Information System’s Technical Assistance Center, emphasized the experience of these healthcare clinicians and their vital need for healthcare data exchange in the field.

“Accurate data is really important for them to be able to accurately present information about your condition to the rest of your healthcare team and treat you in the field,” said Mattib, as she described the value that more widely used EMS data could also bring to healthcare delivery. 

In addition to real-time information, that data can offer visibility into patients’ social determinants of health that is often richer than yes/no patient responses to SDOH questionnaires, she said. 

Legler – who has been assisting NEMSIS with analyzing how interoperability between EMS and the rest of healthcare could be improved – said that the organization has a very mature data dictionary, an XML-based data standard that uses XFD mark-up language and validates data with Schematron – a rule-based language that surfaces data within a document. 

NEMSIS data standards and protocols are used across the country by EMS record systems that undergo compliance testing.

Legler said about 30 software vendors exchange data with each other and to state databases, and ultimately, to a national EMS database that amasses approximately 50 million EMS encounter records per year. 

“So, [it’s] a great ecosystem within EMS,” he said. “What we need to do is look at how EMS interrelates with the rest of healthcare.”

Legler said he analyzed USCDI Version 2, which had 114 elements, and compared it to the NEMSIS, which had 441 elements that could be collected in an EMS encounter. In USCDI, he found 51 data elements that correlated with 77 NEMSIS data elements, and found 29 elements “that had opportunities for improvement.” 

To bring them into greater harmonization, he made five recommendations for USCDI and 17 for NEMSIS, he said.

Mattib described how EMS data can be eye-opening for SDOH measures in her experience as a public health nurse and in her work with the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services. 

“Often, EMS clinicians are the first point of contact for people with emerging healthcare needs,” she said, noting that community paramedics serve patients who primarily access the healthcare system through nontraditional pathways.

When they encounter the patient where they are, EMS clinicians have a front-row seat to that patient’s circumstances and can assess their SDOH determinants.

For example, a patient may answer yes when asked if “they have housing” when seeking care at a brick-and-mortar location, but when a paramedic arrives at their location when called, “they can tell right away this person is couch surfing,” said Mattib. 

“Maybe they see the same patient three or four times this month, and every time it’s in a new location,” she continued. “Or maybe the home they’re staying in has absolutely no water. Well, that’s not really housing, is it?”

Mattib said Michigan currently collects all EMS agency-level data through that repository in real-time, and is working to link state-level program data – Medicaid data, hospital data and other types of claims and enrollment data – within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. 

The ultimate goal is “that EMS patients would be able to be matched to the state of Michigan master person index,” she said, noting that there are some challenges to work through to make patient matching easier for EMS agencies, such as when they answer a call that leads to a single encounter with multiple patients.

“And based on specific rules, [admit, discharge and transfer] messages can be sent back and placed in the e-outcome field of the record,” Mattib said. In sending ADT event notifications back to EMS agencies, “those outcomes records can improve care quality by EMS.” 

While bidirectional data exchange development with MiHIN is still ongoing, the Center for Health and Research Transformation is piloting technical changes to the state’s EMS records and building out resources to translate EMS data, including social needs screening data, she said.

 “We created a technical structure to send this info into our data repository using that same bi-directional process.”

The NEMSIS Technical Center is also thinking about how to connect EMS data to networks like the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement’s, and one idea is a structure enabling state EMS offices to become network participants. Another possibility is mobilizing DOT to be the pipeline to exchange. 

Meanwhile, the center encourages EMS organizations to participate in national data networks rather than create point-to-point connections between EMS patient records and a health system’s or hospital’s electronic health records.

Also, “we’re encouraging EMS software vendors to get involved in things like HIE connectathons and other events where they can be face-to-face, side-by-side with developers of other data systems,” Legler said.

The NEMSIS EMS interoperability task force has been meeting over the past year to work through data alignment with NEMSIS across the healthcare ecosystem, he told the HIMSS24 attendees in closing, and pointing them to the website said, “we would love participation, especially from the non-EMS side.” 

THE LARGER TREND

When EMS has been able to access health information through state exchanges, it’s made a big difference in patient care. 

Eight years ago, for instance, ahead of HIMSS16, Richard Lewis, now staffing chief of the Denver-area South Metro Fire Rescue Authority in Elizabeth, Colorado, told Healthcare IT News that joining the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, provided first responders with critical data that improved emergency medicine and patient care.

“Our whole goal is to make that one continuum of care,” Lewis said at the time. “Because as soon as we can push information into [CORHIO], we can pull information from it.”

Meanwhile, Jonathon Feit, CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies, who spoke at the HIMSS AI Forum in San Diego in December, said his company is looking to artificial intelligence to provide EMS and fire services with more complete patient data.

AI can be leveraged to rapidly crawl healthcare information systems and data sets and give EMS a higher degree of situational awareness. Despite EHRs, user-provided data and other sources of patient information, “so little of that makes it into the hands of the [clinician] that is actually moving the patient,” he said.

ON THE RECORD

“There’s no other area of healthcare where this level of info is available at the community level, and it’s a really relatively untapped source of health and social needs data, ” Mattib said.

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
Email: [email protected]
Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Healthcare IT News – https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/tapping-trove-standardized-ems-data

Tags: healthtappingtrove
Previous Post

Cleveland Clinic’s advice for AI success: democratizing innovation, upskilling talent and more

Next Post

California men accused of making thousands of dollars through poaching ring

The Bird Flu Story No One Is Telling – Scientific American

The Untold Story of Bird Flu: What You Need to Know

July 15, 2025
Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory – Nature

Building a Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory: Bridging Science and Policy for a Sustainable Future

July 15, 2025
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published – The Guardian

Are Scientific Papers Losing Quality as Academics Struggle to Keep Up with Millions Published?

July 15, 2025
Lower your risk of early death by some 40% with this lifestyle change – CNN

Lower your risk of early death by some 40% with this lifestyle change – CNN

July 15, 2025
Palmer leads Chelsea to incredible, improbable Club World Cup romp over PSG – ESPN

Palmer leads Chelsea to incredible, improbable Club World Cup romp over PSG – ESPN

July 15, 2025
Feds Collins: solid economy gives Fed time to decide its next interest rate move – Forexlive | Forex News, Technical Analysis & Trading Tools

Feds Collins: solid economy gives Fed time to decide its next interest rate move – Forexlive | Forex News, Technical Analysis & Trading Tools

July 15, 2025
Black River Entertainment Adds Traci Hite As Director Of Promotion, Southeast – MusicRow.com

Black River Entertainment Welcomes Traci Hite as New Director of Southeast Promotion

July 15, 2025
Stormont Vail Health dermatology specialist talks sun safety at walk with an APP – WIBW

Top Dermatology Tips for Staying Safe in the Sun During Your Next Community Walk

July 15, 2025
Young voters seek authentic representation in politics, says Brett Cooper – Fox News

Young Voters Rally for True Representation in Politics, Urging Real Change

July 15, 2025
Guest columnist: China cutting corners on technology – The State Journal

China’s Rapid Tech Advances Spark Worries About Cutting Corners

July 15, 2025

Categories

Archives

July 2025
MTWTFSS
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031 
« Jun    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (722)
  • Economy (745)
  • Entertainment (21,632)
  • General (15,913)
  • Health (9,783)
  • Lifestyle (753)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (747)
  • Politics (756)
  • Science (15,964)
  • Sports (21,243)
  • Technology (15,729)
  • World (729)

Recent News

The Bird Flu Story No One Is Telling – Scientific American

The Untold Story of Bird Flu: What You Need to Know

July 15, 2025
Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory – Nature

Building a Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory: Bridging Science and Policy for a Sustainable Future

July 15, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version