HMP Global July 27, 2022
EMS is now several years into its quest for better integration of its patient data with hospitals and health care systems. Partnerships have been birthed, nurtured, and grown, and some are now bearing viable fruit. Wednesday at the Pinnacle EMS Conference in Marco Island, Florida, San Diego physician Joelle Donofrio-Ödmann, DO, FAAP, FACEP, FAEMS, described the development and some of the successes of the health information exchange (HIE) now doing that in her city.
The paper charts of old may have had some advantages, said Donofrio-Ödmann, deputy chief medical officer for the city of San Diego and an associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), but aggregating data wasn’t one of them....