Orange County Emergency Medical Services (OCEMS), in concert with EMS system stakeholders and participants, has been actively working to develop an interoperable electronic data management solution that will be universally beneficial to the countywide EMS and Trauma Systems. The system has been conceptualized and a standardized set of data elements has been developed. The new data management system, called the Orange County Medical Emergency Data System (OC-MEDS), has been designed to be compliant with the National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) and the California EMS Information System (CEMSIS). OCEMS intends to establish a countywide EMS and Trauma data repository system that will be capable of comprehensive system-wide analysis. These new capabilities will significantly improve such things as quality assurance / quality improvement efforts, countywide syndromic surveillance, and real-time EMS event and patient tracking with user specific web-based reporting tools.
The OC-MEDS EMS Data Standards document is the basis upon which information pertaining to each prehospital event will be documented and provides the framework for current and future EMS Provider electronic prehospital care reports (ePCR) in Orange County.
The 45-Day
Comment Period for this DRAFT of the OC-MEDS document closed on
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 5:00PM. The document will continue to
be available for download as a resource until it has been
finalized.
