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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2010
Emergency medical services: the frontier in health information exchange.
Emergency medical service (EMS) providers routinely lack even basic access to pre-existing patient information when delivering patient care in the field. Improving access to pre-existing patient information could improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care that they can deliver. ⋯ Over a six month study period, there were 28,986 911 calls to EMS, with 4,332 (16%) requests for patient data. Of the 58 medics surveyed, a substantial majority felt the information delivered was an important tool for delivering quality patient care.