Minnesota — Targeted Issue

Emergency Preparedness for CSHCN Using Minnesota EMSC Information System (MEMSCIS)

March 1, 2004 - Feb. 28, 2007

Grant Number

H34MC02544

Project Overview

The goals of this project are to (1) improve emergency and disaster preparedness for children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) by educating families, primary care providers, pediatric subspecialists, staff nurses, and discharge coordinators at pediatric hospitals about the importance of establishing an emergency medical plan and completing an Emergency Information Form; (2) identify barriers to maintaining emergency preparedness for CSHCN in the community (3) engaging stakeholders in hospital discharge planning in order to improve transitions; (4) enroll hospitalized special needs children in the MEMSCIS Web-Based EIF Database System; and (5) develop an electronic hospital discharge tool that populates an encounter in MEMSCIS. The project will also conduct a mass enrollment of CSHCN as they leave pediatric hospitals and develop a dialogue with the hospitals to facilitate electronic data interchange with MEMSCIS.

Institution

Regents of the University of Minnesota

Main Contact

Lee A. Pyles, MD

Award Amount

$600,000

Contacts

Name	Role(s)	Phone	Email
Lee A. Pyles, MD	Principal Investigator

Disseminations

Title	Type	Publication/Event	Published/Presented	Identifier	Details
Development of a web-based database to manage American College of Emergency Physicians/American Academy of Pediatrics Emergency Information Forms	Research Paper/Publication	Academic Emergency Medicine	2005	PMID: 15741591	Development of a web-based database to manage American College of Emergency Physicians/American Academy of Pediatrics Emergency Information Forms Author(s)/Presenter(s) Pyles LA, Hines C, Patock M, Schied M, Chase J, Jamrozek K, Schiff JS Abstract/Description Children with special health care needs require special advanced planning for their unique emergencies. A Web site has been developed to allow secure Internet access to a database of Emergency Information Forms developed using the American College of Emergency Physicians/American Academy of Pediatrics format. The content and organization of the Web site, found at http://www.memscis.org, are described. A tour of the site is available. A set of XML data elements has been defined. Additional disaster preparedness elements have been added to the American College of Emergency Physicians/American Academy of Pediatrics Emergency Information Forms. The organization, security, and relationship of the site to electronic health records are described. View On Pub Med