Upon completion of the pilot program, the Siren ePCR Suite will be in all 150 of Emergency Health Services Nova Scotia’s (EHS) ground ambulances, as well as in both LifeFlight air ambulances, and more than 800 paramedics will have been trained by EHS to use the system.
The Siren ePCR Suite is an electronic patient care reporting system that improves the speed and accuracy with which paramedics can record patient information while in an ambulance en route to hospital. With the system, patient data is recorded faster and more accurately than with pencil and paper. Ultimately, this allows paramedics to spend less time documenting patients’ ailments, and more time treating them.
Medusa’s contract with EHS positions Nova Scotia as Canada’s first province to offer all of its residents the benefits of a complete electronic patient care solution in a pre-hospital/out of hospital emergency services environment. Until now, this kind of technology was only available in a few major cities.
According to Tim Coolen, vice president of business planning & technologies for Emergency Medical Care, the management company contracted to look after the ground ambulance service, said: Not only can patient care be enhanced through improved documentation and protocol development based on research, but the long-term administrative benefits to EHS can be very substantial. This product can help reduce our operating costs and improve operating efficiency.
