EMS Interoperability and Hospital Accreditation
Joshua Legler
EMS Interoperability Task Force,
I hope your year is off to a good start!
We would like compile information about the value of EMS interoperability from the hospital perspective. One thing we’ve heard is that EMS interoperability helps hospitals fulfill specialty accreditation requirements from organizations such as the Joint Commission, American Heart Association, American College of Surgeons, DNV, and others. We would like to collect specific references to those accreditation requirements. In other words, we’d like to be able to say, “EMS interoperability helps hospitals fulfill requirement XYZ of the Joint Commission’s ABC accreditation… and that requirement is documented in such-and-such standards manual, section 1.2.3.”
If you are familiar with the hospital accreditation requirements, could you share references to the sources where we can find those requirements that relate to EMS interoperability?
Thanks,
Josh
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Joshua Legler