NEMSIS Update

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NEMSIS Update

• Joint National EMS Leadership Teleconference
• August 23,2007

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NEMSIS Update Topics

• Technical Assistance to States
• Financial Assistance to States
• Contributions to the National EMS Database
• Status of Compliance Testing
• National Reporting Plan (samples)
• Revision to NHTSA 3.0
• National Agenda Items

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Technical Assistance to States

• Direct Technical Assistance
• Conducted site visits in 17 states
• 2 additional state contacts while conducting
  another visit
• 48 states received direct assistance
• Participation in state meetings
• Creation of state-specific tools (i.e.,Validator
  and Mapper software tools)
• Collaboration with NEDARC

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Technical Assistance to States

• Indirect Technical Assistance
• NEMSIS website accessed over 6,000 times
• Software Contact List
• Wolfberg Letter (HIPAA)
• National Reports
• List Server Messages / Google User Group
• Software Compliance Testing

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NEMSIS Update - Utah

• Website Activity
• Top Downloads (March, 2007)
• EMS Data Validator Quick Reference V4 (doc) 332
  
• NEMSIS Data Dictionary v.2.2.1 (pdf) 308
• NEMSIS Data Elements and Values v.2.2.1 (xls)
  187
• EMS Law Tracker 000 (doc) 157
• NEMSIS Data Elements Definitions v.2.2.1 (xls)
  138
• NEMSIS Data Dictionary v.2.2.1 (doc) 138
• Final NHTSA V2.2.1 Compliance Policy 4-28-2006
  (pdf) 131
• NEMSIS XSDs v2.2.1 (zip) 117
• NEMSIS Compliance Task List 001 (pdf) 84
• NEMSIS Colorado (ppt) 80

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Financial Assistance to States

• States Requesting 408 Funding for NEMSIS
• AL, AR, AS, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, ID, IN, KS,
  LA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, NJ, NM, OH, OK,
  PA, PR, RI, SD, TN, UT, VT, WA, WI, WY.
• 33 States
• 1 Territory

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Contributions to the National EMS Database

• New Hampshire 56,892
• Minnesota 104,715
• North Carolina 762,156
• Nevada 1,934
• Utah beginning in September
• Nebraska beginning in September

Currently Contains 925,697 Records!
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Other Short List States

• Idaho submit late September
• New Jersey submit November
• Tennessee submit in the fall
• North Dakota asking vendor to submit
• Delaware ready to submit late summer
• Maine waiting for law to apply

Other ImageTrend states GA, NE, NM, WA, WI,
MO Other MedMedia states HI, ID, IA, ND, MH
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Status of Compliance Testing
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Gold Certification
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Silver Certification
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National Reporting Plan

• Develop real time state and national reports
• Report Domain
• Data Quality reports
• Demographic reports
• Elapsed Time reports
• Medical and Trauma reports
• Disposition reports
• Agency reports
• Cardiac Arrest reports
• Financial Aspects reports
• Delay reports
• Ad-hoc reports
• Develop a real-time searchable data query
  system for emphasis areas
• Cardiac Arrest
• Trauma
• Develop real-time data cubes to facilitate
  multi-dimensional data models with a rapid
  execution time.

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National Report Sample
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National Report Sample
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National Report Sample
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National Report Sample
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National Report Sample
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Challenges

• Completeness of state data
• Identifying a core set of reports
• Precision of FIPS codes
• Be compliant with our latest version (NTHSA
  2.2.1)

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Revision to NHTSA 3.0

• The revision process will begin Spring 2008
• Lead by Greg Mears
• Fix existing errors in the 2.2.1 dataset
• Consider the additional of modules (e.g.,
  workforce)
• Facilitate national research (e.g., CDC triage
  scheme)
• Process will be more electronic
• Wiki, teleconferences, involve vendors
• Product available in 2010

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National Agenda Items

• Seeking Federal Security Certification

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National Agenda Items

• Seeking Validation through an SDO

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Questions