EMS-hospital bidirectional data exchange
Information moving both ways, not only from the ambulance into the hospital.
We rarely learn what happened after hospital handoff
EMS agencies can document assessment and treatment in detail while receiving little or no information about diagnosis, intervention, disposition or patient outcome. That limits meaningful clinical quality improvement.
Technology approaches
Outcome data linkage
Matching the prehospital record to what happened afterwards, which is the only way to know whether care helped.
NEMSIS identifiers
The standard identifiers that make a match possible without guesswork.
Health information exchange
Using the regional exchange rather than negotiating with each hospital separately.
Quality dashboards
Clinical measures the medical director and the crews can both see.
Registry integration
Trauma, cardiac arrest and stroke registries as a route to outcomes you cannot get any other way.
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.
AngelTrack
AngelTrack is a cloud-based EMS and fire operations platform covering CAD, ePCR, fire RMS, billing, fleet, scheduling, and reporting.
Visit website →Digitech
Ambulance Commander
Ambulance Commander provides an efficient interface for data, reporting, and analytics related to all EMS revenue.
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 →Handtevy
Handtevy Mobile
Handtevy Mobile gives EMS clinicians protocol-based medication dosing, CPR assistance, checklists, and clinical decision support.
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 →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 →Operative IQ
Operative IQ helps fire and EMS agencies track logistics, inventory, assets, narcotics, fleet maintenance, facilities, and credentials.
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 →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 →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 →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.
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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.
Research
NEMSMA Position Statement and White Paper: Process and Outcomes Data Sharing between EMS and Receiving Hospitals
The EMS management association's position on sharing process and outcome data with hospitals.
Why it matters
Gives an agency a published position to point at when asking a hospital partner for outcome information.
Research
Linkage of Emergency Medical Services and Hospital Data: A Necessary Precursor to Improve Understanding of Outcomes of Prehospital Care
Why linking prehospital records to hospital data is a precondition for understanding EMS outcomes.
Why it matters
Explains what linkage makes possible, and why quality improvement stalls without it.
Research
Linking EMS and Trauma Registry Data to Improve Outcomes
Current work on connecting prehospital records to trauma registry data.
Why it matters
Recent, and directly about the registry route to outcome information.
How these sources are labeled
- 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.