This Just In From Wishard:

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

The following is an e-mail from Wishard EMS, Indianapolis, italics added for clarification purposes:

As of 08:55 this morning (May 6th) Indy has taken another huge step forward in electronic patient healthcare. A successful test was done using the Siren ePCR system and the INPC (Indiana Network for Patient Care) system. A report from INPC was generated and attached to the patient's pre-hospital report.

Thank you to everyone for working so hard on this.
Tom Arkins
Wishard EMS

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This is a culmination of efforts between Medusa and the Regenstrief Institute which will enable paramedics et al to attach external patient data to ePCRs using the new binary file attachment functionality developed in Siren 3.07. This patient data comes from the Regenstrief Indiana state database.

Attaching previous patient data to an ePCR is useful because it avails information such as allergies, previous treatments, and/or current medications to whoever is providing care, enabling more informed treatment plans.

Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds.