REASONS

YOUR ePCR

SHOULD PROVIDE

PATIENT OUTCOMES 5 A Connected Healthcare Guide

So you can compare medic impressions to hospital diagnoses. 01

EMS does not know the outcome of their patients after delivering them to the hospital,

leaving many unanswered questions.

Was the best protocol administered given the emergency room’s actual diagnosis? Is EMS

taking patients to hospitals that provide the best outcomes? Do paramedics need further

training to improve final patient outcomes for a particular illness or injury?.

If you’re not sharing data between your agency and hospitals,

these and many other questions cannot be easily answered.

Knowing your patients’ outcomes will

change how you care for them.

5 Reasons Your ePCR Should Provide Patient Outcomes

It’s the only way to have a true continuous quality improvement program. 02

By exchanging data with hospitals, EMS can

leverage patient outcome data to employ

meaningful quality improvement initiatives.

Until now, CQI programs have been run with very limited data—only

data found within the organization. By sharing data with hospitals, EMS

can now create robust quality management programs based on actual

patient outcome data.

EMS agencies can also now benchmark their data against other

agencies within a local, state, regional, or national area.

This visibility into the continuum of care is vital to improving

end-to-end patient care.

5 Reasons Your ePCR Should Provide Patient Outcomes

So you can improve communications and collaboration with healthcare partners. 03

Exchanging health information between hospital clinicians and across health

information exchanges facilitates better collaboration among all healthcare

providers creating a true continuum of care.

The integration of pre-hospital, hospital, and post-hospital patient data can

inform clinical decisions, improving hand-offs and overall patient care

throughout the entire care continuum.

Connect to hospitals and their healthcare communities and create a

bridge for data to flow between providers.

Before there can be a true continuum

of care, there must be a continuum of

information.

5 Reasons Your ePCR Should Provide Patient Outcomes

So you can increase revenue through better demographic & billing information. 04

Sometimes it is difficult, or even impossible, for a medic to obtain billing

and demographic information from their patient. Fortunately, the hospital

has full time staff dedicated to this task.

By connecting to your hospital through a data exchange, you not only

receive the patient’s outcome data but also accurate and complete

billing information.

Sharing patient data between EMS and

hospitals is a win/win.

5 Reasons Your ePCR Should Provide Patient Outcomes

So you will be ready for new opportunities in mobile integrated healthcare.

With CMS and major insurers moving toward a pay-for-performance

reimbursement, EMS has to find a way—and soon—to make sure it’s

not overly reliant on billing for transporting patients to the hospital.

Paramedics and EMTs need to take on a broader role in the

healthcare system by filling gaps in services based on community

need. This will require providers to be interconnected and clinically

aligned.

In order to reach this next level of care, EMS and hospitals must

embrace a new era of information sharing.

Because better data means better care.

5 Reasons Your ePCR Should Provide Patient Outcomes

About ESO Solutions ESO Solutions, Inc., founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, employs industry leaders in EMS, software design and information technology to create software solutions for the healthcare industry. ESO Solutions’ products help healthcare providers and administrators save time, improve documentation quality and operational efficiencies, and enhance the continuum of patient care. For more information about ESO Solutions, visit esosolutions.com