ePCR-to-hospital interoperability
The record reaching the receiving facility as data, not as a fax or a printout.
Before you buy
- This is a hospital IT negotiation as much as a purchase. Budget time accordingly.
The patient arrives before the record
Receiving clinicians may depend primarily on a verbal handoff while the complete EMS patient-care record is still being finished, transmitted or manually entered into another system.
Technology approaches
Electronic handoff
A structured transfer at the bedside rather than a verbal summary and a promise to send it later.
Health information exchange
The regional plumbing that already moves clinical information between organisations.
Structured clinical data exchange
Fields a receiving system can file and act on, rather than a document somebody has to read and retype.
Companies working in this area
Listed alphabetically, not ranked. Everything below is reported by the company itself. Being listed is free and is not a recommendation — use the questions above when you talk to any of them.
Abbott
i-STAT Alinity
Connected handheld point-of-care blood analyzer providing rapid cartridge-based diagnostic testing from a small blood sample.
Visit website →AngelTrack
AngelTrack is a cloud-based EMS and fire operations platform covering CAD, ePCR, fire RMS, billing, fleet, scheduling, and reporting.
Visit website →Butterfly Network
Butterfly iQ3
Smartphone-connected whole-body handheld ultrasound system designed to bring point-of-care imaging to EMS and other mobile clinical environments.
Visit website →Clarius Mobile Health
Clarius PAL HD3
Wireless dual-array handheld ultrasound system providing whole-body point-of-care imaging and telemedicine capability for EMS clinicians.
Visit website →corpuls
corpuls3
Modular monitor/defibrillator with ECG, vital-sign monitoring, defibrillation, wireless data transmission, and telemedicine capabilities for prehospital care.
Visit website →Digitech
Ambulance Commander
Ambulance Commander provides an efficient interface for data, reporting, and analytics related to all EMS revenue.
Visit website →Eitan Medical
Sapphire Multi-Therapy
Compact programmable infusion pump designed for medication and fluid delivery in hospital, ambulatory, air-medical, and ground EMS environments.
Visit website →Emergency Medical Resolutions Inc. (EMR Inc.)
OHPAH
OHPAH gives individual career firefighters permanent ownership of their occupational health record. It tracks fire exposure, sleep debt, and work intensity automatically, using dispatch data instead of manual logging.
Visit website →EPR Systems
Fireworks
Fireworks helps fire and EMS agencies manage incident reporting, ePCR, prevention, training, assets, reporting, and analytics.
Visit website →ESO
ESO Patient Care and Documentation
ESO Patient Care and Documentation is the EMS electronic patient care reporting part of the ESO EMS platform.
Visit website →First Due
First Due Platform
First Due gives fire and EMS agencies one platform for records, response, prevention, staffing, assets, and field operations.
Visit website →FUJIFILM Sonosite
Sonosite MT
Portable point-of-care ultrasound system designed to deliver diagnostic imaging in mobile and space-constrained care environments.
Visit website →GE HealthCare
Vscan Air CL
Wireless dual-probe handheld ultrasound that connects to Apple and Android mobile devices for portable point-of-care imaging.
Visit website →Hamilton Medical
HAMILTON-T1
Rugged critical-care transport ventilator providing advanced invasive and noninvasive ventilation, monitoring, and connectivity for ground and air medical transport.
Visit website →Handtevy
Handtevy Mobile
Handtevy Mobile gives EMS clinicians protocol-based medication dosing, CPR assistance, checklists, and clinical decision support.
Visit website →ImageTrend
ImageTrend Elite Fire
Fire RMS for NERIS incident reporting, inspections, training, preplans, analytics, and related operational records.
Visit website →Julota
Julota MIH-CP Platform
Cloud-based community-paramedicine platform connecting EMS, healthcare, behavioral health, and community-service data and workflows.
Visit website →Masimo
Rad-97
Portable configurable patient monitor supporting pulse oximetry and optional advanced measurements including capnography and noninvasive blood pressure.
Visit website →MD Ally
MD Ally Public Safety
Integrated virtual-care pathway that allows 911 and EMS systems to route appropriate low-acuity patients to telehealth and community resources.
Visit website →Medtronic
Capnostream 35
Rugged portable respiratory monitor providing continuous capnography, pulse oximetry, respiratory rate, and integrated respiratory-status assessment for EMS and transport.
Visit website →MEQU
°M Warmer System
Portable battery-powered system that rapidly warms blood and IV fluids for prehospital, transport, tactical, and hospital care.
Visit website →Mindray
BeneHeart D60
Rugged transport monitor/defibrillator with advanced patient monitoring and real-time prehospital data transmission capabilities.
Visit website →OneDose
Protocol management, weight-based dose calculation, barcode medication cross-check, Narcotic Tracking, QA/QI, and more, all in one platform. Free protocol tier for any department. Integrates with ESO, ImageTrend, First Due, and more.
Visit website →Operative IQ
Operative IQ helps fire and EMS agencies track logistics, inventory, assets, narcotics, fleet maintenance, facilities, and credentials.
Visit website →Philips
Tempus ALS
Lightweight prehospital monitoring and defibrillation system combining the Tempus Pro patient monitor with the Tempus LS-Manual defibrillator.
Visit website →ProPhoenix
Phoenix Public Safety Software Suite
Phoenix provides CAD, mobile, fire RMS, citizen services, and related public safety software for fire and EMS agencies.
Visit website →Pulsara
Pulsara connects EMS, hospitals, public health, and emergency management teams through secure patient and incident communication channels.
Visit website →QinFlow
Warrior Lite
Compact battery-powered blood and IV-fluid warmer designed for first responders, rescue equipment, and critical-care transport.
Visit website →ResponderOS, Inc.
EMS SOAP
EMS SOAP helps medics complete narratives faster with AI voice dictation trained for medical terminology. The platform organizes reports into the agency’s approved format, flags missing or conflicting details, and keeps the medic in control.
Visit website →Sansio
HealthEMS / MobileTouch EMS + Fire
Sansio HealthEMS and MobileTouch support EMS ePCR and fire documentation from one platform.
Visit website →SCHILLER
DEFIGARD Touch 7
Connected emergency monitor/defibrillator offering ECG, capnography, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, CPR feedback, pacing, defibrillation, livestreaming, and ePCR connectivity.
Visit website →Siemens Healthineers
epoc Blood Analysis System
Handheld wireless point-of-care blood analyzer providing blood gas, electrolyte, and metabolite results in less than one minute for prehospital and transport care.
Visit website →Stryker
LIFENET System
LIFENET System manages EMS patient information, device data, care team communication, and equipment readiness.
Visit website →Traumasoft
Traumasoft EMS Software
Traumasoft combines EMS CAD, ePCR, billing, crew management, fleet, scheduling, and analytics in a cloud-native platform.
Visit website →Unified Solutions
Unified Solutions Platform
Unified Solutions provides EMS and fire software for ePCR, CAD, NERIS incident reporting, scheduling, inspections, pre-plans, fleet, inventory, and analytics.
Visit website →Verathon
GlideScope Go 2
Portable video laryngoscope designed specifically for EMS and prehospital airway visualization and intubation.
Visit website →Veritas Technology Solutions, LLC
NarcTrack
The Only EMS Platform That Actively Detects Diversion. Narcotic tracking built for EMS — log every custody movement with Tap To Track, monitor inventory in real time, and catch diversion risk early with a built-in investigation engine.
Visit website →ZOLL Data Systems
ZOLL emsCharts
ZOLL emsCharts is cloud-based ePCR software for EMS patient care documentation.
Visit website →ZOLL Medical Corporation
X Series Advanced
Portable EMS monitor/defibrillator combining advanced patient monitoring, defibrillation, ventilation feedback, telemedicine capabilities, and resuscitation data collection.
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Evidence and research
Government, standards and peer-reviewed sources on this problem. Every address here was checked before it was published.
Official resource
Interoperability
How NEMSIS data is intended to move between EMS systems and healthcare partners.
Why it matters
The standard your ePCR vendor should be building against, described by the people who maintain it.
Official resource
EMS.gov
The federal office of EMS, and the home of the national EMS data material. The site is undergoing maintenance at the time of writing.
Why it matters
Where the national EMS data guidance lives once the site is back.
Research
Hospitals Infrequently Receive EMS Patient Care Reports in the Era of Electronic Medical Records: A Preliminary Report
A study finding that EMS patient care reports often do not reach the receiving hospital record.
Why it matters
A useful research example of the documentation gap persisting despite electronic records. It is one preliminary study and does not describe every EMS system, but it is evidence the problem is real rather than local.
How these sources are labeled
- Official resource
- A government or standards body. Neutral, no commercial interest.
- Research
- Academic or laboratory work.
Nothing here is paid placement. Links are chosen because they are the clearest explanation we could find, and labeled so you know who wrote them.