A Seamless Exchange Standardizing processes & sharing data across the healthcare continuum is key to improving quality

摘要

EMS systems exist to provide high-quality-care to the patients we serve. Therefore, one of the major goals of a state-of-the art EMS data system is to help ensure that the care you provide is meeting your standards; another goal is to help improve that care over time. In this article, we look at what's on the horizon for clinical quality assurance and improvement and how EMS systems are using data to integrate with the rest of with the rest of the healthcare system.Electronic patient care report (ePCR) systems have been shown to improve billing and collections, facilitate mandatory data submissions to state and national EMS data repositories, and allow for instantaneous answers to a wide variety of on-the-fly. questions that previously took several hours or even months to complete, depending on the number of reports that had to be accessed in file drawers full of paper patient care reports.