Providing the region’s first patient outcome portal to the Fire and EMS services is just one new way that University Hospitals EMS Institute continues to lead the way in pre-hospital medicine, reports Healthcare Business Today. University Hospitals partnered with Zoll Data Systems Care Exchange to bring this service, known as a Health Information Exchange (HIE), to their EMS providers.
This process enables all EMS agencies with patient information access to operate cohesively and efficiently follow the patient through their care at the hospital. These changes have eliminated the antiquated process of faxing the patient care record (PCR) to the Emergency Department, which caused an inability to access patient feedback from an EMS perspective. University Hospitals implemented the technology to make life simpler, and instead of using multiple systems to track patient progress and provide feedback to EMS professionals, executed the Care Exchange. Read more.
