71 TX Hospitals Now Have Real-Time Access to Mobile Medical Data

Chambers County Emergency Medical Services was deployed to the city of Del Rio last week to assist with the care and transport of patients suffering from the coronavirus. To support its partner-client’s mission, Beyond Lucid Technologies (BLT) — a software firm that shares EMS & Fire data with hospitals and public health agencies and tracks patient care over time (including COVID-19 exposures, labs and vaccines) — today announced that it has activated access to inbound patient records for all 71 hospitals that are affiliated with the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Network (STRAC). All NEMSIS-compliant patient care charting systems used by EMS & Fire agencies transporting patients to the STRAC-affiliated facilities are supported. Patient records can be transferred to the hospital in as little as 30 seconds following submission via the MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange (HIE). In addition to Chambers County EMS, BLT collaborates with Cypress Creek EMS and the Harris County Emergency Services District 48 Fire Department. STRAC facilities include rural and military hospitals, and multi-site hospital systems including Christus Health and Baptist Health. Every one now has a node on the MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital HIE, joining hospitals in Harris, Chambers, Montgomery and Williamsburg counties — over 200 hospitals nationwide. Records processed through the MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital HIE can be exported in federally standardized da...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Coronavirus News EMS Hospital Mobile Integrated Healthcare Texas Source Type: news