1. POLARIS Utah's Ambulance Patient Care Reporting System Public Health Informatics Brownbag January 27, 2010 Joshua Legler, Bureau of EMS and Preparedness

2. POLARIS is a Hub

3. NEMSIS Standard (National EMS Information System)

4. NEMSIS “Subsets”

5. Completeness Old “Standard” 40 Of 60 Elements NEMSIS 196 Of 315 Elements

6. Timeliness Old System 87 Days POLARIS 1 Day

7. Transition Status

8. Using POLARIS for Data  Patient Care Report Review  Analysis

9. Patient Care Report Review

10. This report is a sample and does not contain actual patient information.

11. Analysis

12. For illustration purposes only. Data have not been verified.

21. Data Use Examples  Columbia Univ: “Do Emergency Medical System Response Times Matter for Health Outcomes?” and “Why Are Ambulances Underprovided?”Do Emergency Medical System Response Times Matter for Health Outcomes?Why Are Ambulances Underprovided?  Univ of Utah: Recognition of hypotension and hypoxia in children  Dept of Public Safety: Fatal crashes

22. Data Use Examples  Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention: “Monitoring Prehospital Stroke Care in Utah…”Monitoring Prehospital Stroke Care in Utah…  EMS for Children: Pain management in pediatric injuries  Child Fatality Review Committee  Hazardous Substance Emergency Events Surveillance program  H1N1

23. H1N1 Report For illustration purposes only. Data have not been verified.

24. Integration

25. Trauma Registry Integration Avg ISS For illustration purposes only. Data have not been verified.

26. National EMS Database

27. For illustration purposes only. Data have not been verified.

28. More Information

29. www.nemsis.org

30. health.utah.gov/ems/data/

31. More Information Joshua Legler Research & Data Manager Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness Utah Department of Health 801-273-6668 jlegler@utah.gov health.utah.gov/ems