National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) Technical Assistance Center

The purpose of this contract is to continue to support and maintain the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) and the Technical Assistance Center (TAC). The NEMSIS is a framework that provides a national standard for patient care reporting by emergency services personnel in the out-of-hospital setting. The NEMSD defines data elements, values, and established a national standard for data exchange in collaboration with State, territorial, tribal and the District of Columbia (STTDC) EMS offices, software vendors, national partners, and industry experts. Data from patient care reports completed by all EMS clinicians at the point-of-care in the out-of-hospital setting are sent from their local agency to STTDC level data repositories before being submitted to the NEMSD. Data quality is maintained through electronic patient care report (ePCR) software vendor compliance testing and the adoption of national case definitions and schema language. This patient care reporting and data exchange system is maintained by NHTSA OEMS.

This contract continues maintenance, further development, ongoing implementation of NEMSIS, the NEMSD, and TAC to harmonize NEMSIS with electronic health record initiatives. Integration with regional, Federal, State, and local Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), Qualified Heath Information Networks (QHINS), registries (e.g., trauma, cardiac and stroke), other national data sets such as the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC), Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), provide information to other healthcare providers that see the patient after EMS delivers initial care, transport, and/or interfacility transfer.
 

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