Paper Type
Completed Research Paper
Abstract
EMS is an organized and collaborative effort between several organizations providing different levels or tiers of care designed to transport sick or injured patients to the hospital. Significant challenges to efficient, accurate, and integrated inter-organizational information exchange exist for communicating pre-hospital patient information to hospital emergency departments. The goal of this research was to investigate the requirements and design of a business process-oriented inter-organizational enterprise architecture from a multi-stakeholder perspective. This paper describes an action-design research effort aimed at improving information exchange across pre-hospital and hospital organizations in the Santa Clara County, CA Health and Hospital System. In this paper, we discuss challenges with integrated EMS information exchange, the research approach and process, resulting architecture, and implications for multi-organizational emergency health systems.
Recommended Citation
Schooley, Ben and Hikmet, Neset, "Design of an Enterprise Architecture for Electronic Patient Care Record (ePCR) Information Exchange in EMS" (2013). AMCIS 2013 Proceedings. 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/HealthInformation/GeneralPresentations/2
Design of an Enterprise Architecture for Electronic Patient Care Record (ePCR) Information Exchange in EMS
EMS is an organized and collaborative effort between several organizations providing different levels or tiers of care designed to transport sick or injured patients to the hospital. Significant challenges to efficient, accurate, and integrated inter-organizational information exchange exist for communicating pre-hospital patient information to hospital emergency departments. The goal of this research was to investigate the requirements and design of a business process-oriented inter-organizational enterprise architecture from a multi-stakeholder perspective. This paper describes an action-design research effort aimed at improving information exchange across pre-hospital and hospital organizations in the Santa Clara County, CA Health and Hospital System. In this paper, we discuss challenges with integrated EMS information exchange, the research approach and process, resulting architecture, and implications for multi-organizational emergency health systems.