HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12082015 - C.34RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to apply for and accept, if awarded, the
California State EMS Authority Health Information Exchange Emergency Medical Services Grant (PULSE+EMS) to
demonstrate health information exchange between emergency medical services and community hospitals.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None.
BACKGROUND:
In 2013 Contra Costa EMS was awarded a State EMS Authority Health Information Exchange Grant to conduct a
data infrastructure analysis assessing Contra Costa Emergency Medical Services readiness for health information
exchange. That analysis became part of a report “Health Information Exchange Services in Support of Disaster
Preparedness and Emergency Medical Response” prepared for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology (IT) in April of 2014.
As a result of this participation Contra Costa EMS was invited by the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response to participate in the US Department of Health and Human Services Patient Unified System for
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 12/08/2015 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II
Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
Contact: Pat Frost, 646-4690
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board
of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: December 8, 2015
David Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: June McHuen, Deputy
cc: T Scott, M Wilhelm, Leticia Andreas
C. 34
To:Board of Supervisors
From:William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director
Date:December 8, 2015
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Authorize to Apply and Accept if awarded a California State EMS Authority Grant to Advance Health Information
Exchange in Emergency Medical Services G
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
Emergencies (PULSE), an effort in California to ensure potentially life-saving health information is available to
health professionals and emergency responders during a disaster.
In June 2015 the State of California Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) was awarded a Patient
Unified Lookup System for Emergencies Plus Emergency Medical Services known as (PULSE+EMS) grant from
the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of National Information Technology to advance health
information exchanged (HIE) statewide during a disaster and regionally in daily emergency medical services
(EMS).
The project has three primary use case deliverables:
1. Development of public health disaster response medical history portal, called PULSE, for health care
professionals and creation of four connections to non-profit community or private health information
organizations (HIO);
2. Implementation of PULSE, with a secure, web-based portal for healthcare professionals, who are California
Disaster Healthcare Volunteers (DHV), and;
3. Implementation of +EMS for daily EMS exchange in 2 regional areas in California, which included 1
ambulance provider and 1 hospital in each area.
The Contra Costa EMS Agency is seeking approval to apply for and receive if awarded a grant to support Health
information exchange within Contra Costa County. The competitive grant award is between $250,000 to $500,000
with funding directed to support the grant deliverables associated with +EMS. Over the last 12 months Contra
Costa EMS has been working with the following entities who have committed to participating in the effort and
include EPIC, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Contra Costa Health Services Division of Information
Technology, Contra Costa Health Service Division of Public Health, First Watch (EMS Agency analytics vendor)
and Alliance partner American Medical Response. In addition Contra Costa Community Hospital Partners Kaiser
and Sutter Health are exploring participation. All grant deliverables must be completed prior to July 2017 and it is
anticipated that that grant project will take a minimum of 12 months to complete.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
The Contra Costa EMS System and patients will not benefit from the ability to conduct health information
exchange between EMS providers and hospitals under normal and disaster conditions.
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