Huron County's Emergency Services is switching to a new platform.
EMS Chief Jeff Horseman said their Integrated Software Solution is the platform on which they document all of their ambulance calls. So every time the paramedics go out on a call for service they would complete a patient chart.
"The same as a nurse or a doctor would do in a hospital, we complete a chart as required by the Ministry of Health for treating and transporting patients to a hospital," said Horseman. "So this particular platform also integrates with our automatic vehicle locater and eventually will integrate with the dispatch centre."
Horseman added in the future, the platform will be able to integrate with the hospital system, depending on which platform the hospital is using. And that would allow paramedics documentation or parts of the documentation directly to the hospital.
"Either prior to us arriving or while we're in the hospital completing documentation, so the advantage of this is we can send anything upfront, or early in the call so the nurses and doctors would have advance knowledge of what type of patient we're bringing in and what care they might require," added Horseman.
Horseman said that's still a year or two away but the interaction with their own dispatch centre is much closer.
