Feature - Communications
solution allows the mobile command center to better manage healthcare resources, particularly in the case of a large‐scale emergency situation. With just a Web connection, officials in the command center can immediately view a map‐based image that shows them the exact location of medics and patients as well as whether a patient has been tagged with a yellow, red or green triage tag — which indicates the criticality of the patient’s condition. From a command perspective, we were able to monitor the entire event and see what patients were trans‐ ported where,” says Fairfax County’s Bydume.
The bottom line is that the system gives those in command real time situ‐ ational awareness of the event. In the fire and rescue industry, rapid decision making is critical to the outcome of an event. The Motorola MC75 can assist commanders in making informed deci‐ sions about strategy, tactics and resource allocation,” Bydume says.
Delivering a New Standard in Patient Triage, Tracking and Treatment
In addition, the Motorola MC75 devices support wireless connectivity, which means that patient data can be transferred in real‐time to many differ‐ ent locations, ranging from hospitals to command centers.
During the two pilots, patient data was successfully transferred in real‐ time to the HC Standard back‐end servers, where it was then accessed by four different remote centers and/or organizations: • The Regional Hospital Coordination Center(RHCC), which shares state wide information on each hospital’s capacity to handle patients.
• The Unified Command Center, a multi‐jurisdictional command cen‐ ter that is shared by various public safety and municipal organizations — from law enforcement officials to county government leaders —
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Of course, the system is not just useful in emergencies.
stretching across Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland.
• The Mobile Command Center, an on‐site Web‐enabled command center affectionately dubbed “Big Red.” Commanders could view all the incident information being cap‐ tured in the field on a large screen television located inside the Mobile Command Center vehicle.
• The Office of Emergency Management, the agency tasked with planning responses to disaster situations.
Once collected, all relevant patient information can also be transferred directly from the HC Standard applica‐ tion suite to a hospital’s Electronic Patient Care Reporting (EPCR) soft‐ ware. The entire system meets Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security standards.
A Look at the Benefits The electronic triage and tracking
It also helps Emergency Medical Service(EMS) providers easily create more complete records of every trans‐ port they make because they no longer have to retype information gathered by HC Standard from the field. After an emergency transport is successfully completed, that information can be automatically set to pre‐populate the electronic patient care record with that specific patient’s record. This can save an enormous amount of time for the EMS providers by avoiding dual data entry and improving accuracy of the information collected.
The system also improves patient care. “In some medical situations such as severe burn cases, visual informa‐ tion such as the color of a patient’s skin or the extent and scope of a burn injury can dictate a different method of treat‐ ment and transport,” says Stan Kuzia, chairman and CEO of Global Emergency Resources. “In these cases, an elec‐ tronic triage and tracking solution equipped with a color imager, as in the MC75, can give that patient a higher
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