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EMS Toolkits

EMS Toolkits. Now you got them; What do you do with them?. The Power To Change. The Power to Save Lives. What is an EMS Toolkit?. An EMS Toolkit is a detailed evaluation of a specific Topic EMS Service Delivery EMS Personnel Performance EMS Patient Care.

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EMS Toolkits

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  1. EMS Toolkits Now you got them; What do you do with them? The Power To Change The Power to Save Lives

  2. What is an EMS Toolkit? • An EMS Toolkit is a detailed evaluation of a specific Topic • EMS Service Delivery • EMS Personnel Performance • EMS Patient Care

  3. What EMS Toolkits are Available for Use? • EMS System Response Time • Acute Trauma Care • Cardiac Arrest Care • Acute Cardiac (STEMI) Care • Acute Stroke Care • Acute Pediatric Care

  4. Who can Use an EMS Toolkit? • EMS Toolkits are designed at the EMS System level. • EMS Toolkit generation is an EMS System security setting in CIS • Initially, Joe Fraser is the contact to obtain access to your EMS System’s Toolkits

  5. Why should you use an EMS Toolkit? • You are busy • You care about Care • It is hard to know what is important • Resources are hard to come by • You can manage what you can measure • EMS Toolkits can help

  6. What is EMS Peer Review? EMS peer review is the process by which a committee of EMS professionals investigates the patient care rendered in order to determine whether accepted standards of care have been met.

  7. What is the Purpose of EMS Peer Review • Monitor EMS Service Delivery • Monitor EMS Personnel Performance • Monitor Resource use, need, and effectiveness • Ultimately monitor patient care

  8. What are the requirements for Peer Review?

  9. How can an EMS Toolkit Help with Peer Review

  10. EMS Peer Review Vs. EMS Performance Improvement • Monitor EMS Service Delivery • Monitor EMS Personnel Performance • Monitor Resource use, need, and effectiveness • Ultimately monitor patient care • Measurement with Benchmarking • Action plan with improvements • Ongoing Rinse and Repeat

  11. Keys to Improvement • EMS is a System of Care • Very few problems are based on one issue • Willingness to explore options and ideas to improve • Empower those within the system to be their best • Understanding that Change is Required • Willingness to entertain change for improvement • Be objective and accountable

  12. Coming Soon? • 2009 EMS Rules Revision • NCCEP Performance Improvement Guidelines

  13. Examples • EMS Acute Cardiac Care Toolkit • EMS Acute Stroke Care Toolkit • EMS Acute Pediatric Care Toolkit

  14. Topic Overview

  15. Data Quality

  16. Data Quality • Components of Quality Data • Data Collection • User • Value timely and accurate data • Understand the value of the data • Medical Record • Risk Management • Reimbursement • Component of Performance Evaluation

  17. Data Quality • Components of Quality Data • Data Collection • Software • User interface to promote ease of use and timely data entry • Ability to collect all of the required data elements important to each specific event • Storage within the software based on NEMSIS standard • Mapping from the software to the NEMSIS XML to transmit all of the required data elements • Correct file format for all data to be transmitted.

  18. Vendor Data Quality Score

  19. Personnel and System Data Quality

  20. National Statistics

  21. EMS System Statistics

  22. Time

  23. Dispatch Time by Groups

  24. Chute Time by Groups

  25. Response Times by Group

  26. Total Call Time by Group

  27. System Capability

  28. Patient Description

  29. Patient Description

  30. Skills Used

  31. Personnel Performance

  32. Patient Care

  33. Record Review

  34. Linkage

  35. Community Outreach and Prevention

  36. 5 Keys to Success • Building anything of value requires Tools. Use the Toolkits • EMS Peer Review should include the EMS Toolkits • Don’t be afraid to make controlled adjustments or changes • Rinse and Repeat to measure what you do • Contact the EMSPIC for Technical Assistance

  37. EMS Toolkit Grant Update

  38. $1,600,000 EMS System Response Toolkit Results New EMD Implementation Existing EMD Upgrade Policy Implementation

  39. New EMD Awards • Ashe County • Caswell County • Cherokee Tribal • Hoke County • Pender County • Wilkes County • Yadkin County

  40. EMD Enhancements • Bladen County • Catawba County • Davie County • Harnett County • Stokes County • Swain County • Union County

  41. Policy Implementation • Cherokee County • Chowan County • Davidson County • Forsyth County • Gaston County • Granville County • Lenoir County • Pamlico County • Perquimans County • Person County • Randolph County • Transylvania Co.

  42. Welcome South Carolina

  43. Thank You www.EMSPIC.org

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