PSTA Announces the Creation of Two New Technical Subcommittees: EMS Patient Care Records and Video Management
Consistent with the purpose and mission of the PSTA, the PSTA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the creation of two new technical subcommittees: EMS Patient Care Records and Video Management.
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Consistent with the purpose and mission of the PSTA, the PSTA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the creation of two new technical subcommittees:
1. EMS Patient Care Records
2. Video Management
The EMS Patient Care Records Subcommittee was established to review existing standards and provide recommendations to help ensure a common set of open standard HIPAA compliant interfaces are adopted for sharing patient data across various technology systems used by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and hospitals including hospital electronic health records (EHR). Many of the systems that generate and receive patient information today are siloed and proprietary, precluding the ability of medical practitioners to quickly and effectively share patient data across systems. The result often requires use of handwritten notes, manual entry data, the need for multiple entry of the same data in multiple systems by different individuals – all of which create inefficiencies, increased errors, and ultimately impact the effectiveness of patient care. Implementation of a common interface utilizing open APIs will reduce duplicative data entry thereby minimizing errors in patient data; ensure patient data consistency for all care providers involved in the patient journey; and increase prehospital and hospital efficiency by reducing the recordkeeping burden.
"EMS has been using electronic patient care records for years, but agencies still struggle to share these records in real time with hospitals they are taking patients to due to interoperability issues surrounding electronic health records at the destination hospital. We want to fix that," said Mike Duyck, PSTA Board member and former Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (OR) Fire Chief.
The Video Management Subcommittee was established to review existing standards and provide recommendations for a common set of standards for real time public safety video communications. The initial public safety use cases include telemedicine between EMS and hospitals, law enforcement video and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) video. Ensuring the use of a common set of standards and APIs will enable the consistent transmission of real time video data between and among multiple video platforms and video management systems for public safety. Adoption of such an approach will continue to encourage innovation within public safety and industry while fostering interoperability and competition, reducing costs, and ultimately enabling first responders to ensure they have the necessary situational awareness.
"Video is becoming more prevalent in public safety every day. Whether it is enabling EMS to have telemedicine capabilities to the hospital or sending video from an unmanned aerial system on a large fire, we need to have ubiquitous access to video in real time," added Jeff Johnson, PSTA Board Member and Western Fire Chiefs Association CEO.
If you are a member of a public safety agency/association, industry or academia and want to contribute to these important technical subcommittee discussions going forward, please visit https://www.pstalliance.org/how-to-join/ to join the PSTA and share your experience and knowledge.
About PSTA
The Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA), comprised of telecommunications industry, public safety, and technology leaders, is a nonprofit coalition with a mission to accelerate the conformance of technology that is both open and standards compliant to ensure public safety has a safe, secure and interoperable framework for the next generation of communications tools by guiding the implementation and testing of technical specifications requirements for applications, handsets, connected devices, cloud applications and storage that will be used by the first responder community. For more information, visit http://www.pstalliance.org.
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SOURCE Public Safety Technology Alliance
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