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Emergency Medical Workgroup

Emergency Medical Workgroup. Charge: Identify the communications needs and requirements of emergency medical users; Review proposals by other work groups as it relates to the needs of emergency medical users. Key deliverables: Statement of Requirements (SoR) Use cases Progress:.

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Emergency Medical Workgroup

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  1. Emergency Medical Workgroup Charge: Identify the communications needs and requirements of emergency medical users; Review proposals by other work groups as it relates to the needs of emergency medical users. Key deliverables: Statement of Requirements (SoR) Use cases Progress:

  2. EMWG Report Organization • Introduction • Where we are now • Planning • Operability • Interoperability • Where we want to be • Planning • Operability • Interoperability • How we get there • Planning • Operability • Interoperability

  3. How We Get There • Recommendations • Federal Interagency & Advisory Committee • Changes to Federal Communications Grant Guidance • Develop Model State Legislation • Additional Funding

  4. How We Get There • Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Communications • Federal Agency Coordination • Coordinated by USDHS/OIC-OEC • Well-funded State/Local Advisory Committee • Public Safety/EMS/Public Health/Health Facilities • DOT/PW/Amateur Radio/Other • State/Local Government • Develop System and Component Standards • Provide Strong Central Guidance & Performance Measures • Track National Progress

  5. How We Get There • Change Federal Grant Guidance • Emergency Medical and Public Health Interests Represented in Planning and SCIPS • Assure On-Going EMS/PH Participation • Require Operational Testing and Excercises

  6. How We Get There • Model State Legislation • EMS Communications Plan Required • Must Be Coordinated With SCIP • EMS/Health/Medical/Represented on SIEC • Must Encourage Prioritized Development: • Basic Operability: Fix 1970’s Infrastructure • Basic Operability: Statewide System Development and Coordination (Not Ad Hoc) • Basic Operability: Redundancy and Hardening • Basic Interoperability: Routine Daily Communications Among EMS, Public Health and Facilities • Basic Interoperability: Move Right On SafeCom Interoperability Continuum

  7. How We Get There • Secure Additional Funding • Program to Project and Secure Needed Bandwidth and Other Resources • Rural/Frontier EMS and Telemedicine Systems for Community Paramedicine • EMS Agencies Eligible for Universal Service program Funds • Define EMS personnel as public safety personnel under the Stafford Act • CMS Fund Advanced Technology Communications/Information Systems as ED Uncompensated Care for EMS Oversight

  8. EM Work Group • Plan: • Consensus on Recommendations • Reverse Engineer Previous Sections • Process: • Conference call 12/7 4PM ET • NASEMSO/NAEMSP/NPSTC Review 12/11 • Next Call: 12/20 2:30 – 4:00 PM ET

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