what’s in it for us? using data for success in patient care!
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What’s In It for us? Using Data for Success in Patient Care!
Nick Nudell, MS, NRP, FACPE
National Rural EMS and Care Conference
April 2017
Fargo, ND
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Nick Nudell, MS, NRP, FACPE
• BA in IT Management, MS in Information Security, studying D.Sci. in Information Systems – Analytics & Decision Science
• Paid/volunteer & urban/rural 18+yrs Paramedic, 25yrs technology
• Former EMS Compass Project Manager
• Rural health & healthcare information systems consultant
• Board Member – Paramedic Foundation & National EMS Management Association
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Life is about the journey
49 States2 Provinces8 months44,250 mi truck27,500 mi trailer9.3mpg4,720 gallons diesel1,162 hours1 fish
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It is not a Magic School Bus
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Tell me about you!
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Tok Area, Alaska: 41st Largest State• Pop est: 7,023 or 0.25 per sq/mi (0.01/km²)
• 25,059 sq/mi (64,900 km²)
• AlCan Border Crossing into USA:• 114,996 private passengers
• 1,307 pedestrians
• 3,762 bus passengers
• 6,219 trucks
• 62,277 crossed in to Canada
• 2 doctors, 3 clinic rooms, 60 EMS
Source: https://transborder.bts.govhttp://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/
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Adapt, Overcome, & Advance!
Nearest hospital is 203mi =4hrs ground or 90 minutes by airFurthest road point is border @322mi = 6 hours to hospitalTrauma center is 3.5 hr flight after getting to Fairbanks
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EMS systems are complex
Managing without information is crazy!
Supply Management
Vehicles Purchase & Repair
Medications
Dispatch
CPR Classes
Human Resources
Professional Development
Narcotic Tracking
Defibrillator Upkeep
Community Involvement
Scheduling
State Licensing
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Environment Dictates Conditions!
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Start with where you wanna go!
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• Precision medicine based algorithm development• Prevents injury or disease from occurring
• Relies on Personal Molecular Profile (PMP)
• Adapts/evolves for dynamic systems
Paramedicine Vision - Of The Future
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• Ability to access and update their health record anywhere anytime
• Provide all care providers appropriate access anywhere anytime
• Accountability by all providers for the ultimate continuity of care
• optimal specific PRECISE advice based on genetics, history, research, current trends, cell phone data, demographics, & outcome studies• Better than Google
Paramedic Patient Centric Ideals
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• Required symptom based “protocols” to protect physicians providing “delegated practice” to subordinates:• Designed for lowest common denominator
• Some states still rely heavily and some do not
Paramedicine - Of The Past
a.k.a. Deductive-Nomothetic Reasoning
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Paramedicine - Of Today• Evidence Based Guidelines (problem based protocols)
• Relies on cohorts – studies of similar conditions
• Pattern recognition (similar to facial recognition)
• Reactionary and works best when situations are static
a.k.a. Inductive-Idiographic Reasoning
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What is the key to advancing our future?
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Good Data Is Important!
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A lot of data moved in 2016…
• Moved a zettabyte of data - one trillion gigabytes or 667 trillion Netflix movies
• 4.5 BILLION websites
• Every day:• 500 Million Tweets
• 4 Million Hours of content uploaded to YouTube
• 4.3 BILLION Facebook messages / 5.75 BILLION Facebook likes
• 6 BILLION daily Google Searches
• Nearly 250 BILLION emails
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We have a lot of healthcare data!• 2011: 150 exabytes (150 billion gigabytes) =1.5M miles
• Stack of paper to Uranus
• Space shuttle takes 7.3 years to get there!
• 2014: 420 million wearable, wireless health monitors
• 137+ million records since 2006 in National EMS Information System national database (as of April 2017)
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We can share it too!
• Sharing health information means sharing more than just data
• Supports knowledge building across organizations silos by sharing interesting patterns/findings
• Patient centered – doesn’t care who the organization is
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Other paramedic data sources!
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It is time to rethink things!
Define data elements?
Define expectations?
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Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Data
It is not about the data!
Paramedics have provided “data” to hospitals for 50+ years!
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It is about decisions!• Decisions are dependent on knowledge of
all the relevant factors
• Information about patients is used to drive care planning
• Personal, professional, organizational learning results in knowledge
• Quality measures & clinical studies inform the process
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Simple Decision Aids
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Clinical Decision Support
• Increases quality of care
• Enhanced health outcomes
• Avoidance of errors and adverse events
• Improved efficiency, cost-benefit, and provider and patient satisfaction
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Empowers visual analysis & reporting
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Empowers paramedic self-improvement
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Empowers paramedic benchmarking
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Adaptable for any
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Percentage of Cardiac Arrests Where Monitor Data Was Uploaded
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Even dreaded QA/compliance monitoring
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Automated daily management reports
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Overall performance monitoring
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Real time monitoring for trends & outliers
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Number of Cardiac Arrests Per Month
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Gives ability to reduce variability
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But, must still use meaningful measures
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• Bigger is NOT better!• 578 nationally defined EMS elements
• 10,000+ ICD10 codes
• Thousands more in RxNorm, SnoMed, etc
What Is Not Needed? More data definitions.
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• 30 minutes per ePCR x 40 million calls = 20 million hours• 20M x $100 = $2,000,000,000 spent on writing ePCRs
• $50 per call!
• What can be improved? Let’s:• Better use the data to show our value to our communities
• Ask data vendors to show us the value of their services
What Is Not Needed? More data definitions.
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• National EMS Management Association jumpstarting an Information and Technology Committee seeking broad participation• Develop a standard and credential for Paramedic Information Practitioners
• To manage the data collection, sensemaking, knowledge building, decision support of paramedic agencies of the future!
What Is Needed? Information Specialists!
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What Is Needed? Complementary Perspectives!
Information Systems
Evidence / Operational Knowledge
Performance Improvement
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What is Needed? Performance Measures!
• EMS Compass 1.0 got us started in defining what should be measured• Also developed a process (being submitted for peer review) to develop
evidence based performance measures in the future
• EMS Compass 2.0 is now getting started as the EMS Quality Alliance with broad based participation. More to come!
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What is a performance measure?
Measurement Domain
Clinical Area
Topic
Family of Measures
Structure
Process
Outcome
Balancing
Measure Formula
Denominator Numerator =Score
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Structure
Process
Outcome Stroke Bundle of Care
For positive stroke assessment,
average time from LKW to arrival at
stroke center
Documentation of LKW
Positive stroke Assessments
transported to Stroke Center
Blood Glucose for Positive
Prehospital Stroke Assessment
Notification of stroke team
Suspected Stroke Receiving
Prehospital Stroke Assessment
Performance Measure Example: Stroke-7 Bundle of Care*
Stroke-1 Stroke-2 Stroke-3 Stroke-4
Stroke-7
Stroke-5
Stroke-6
*For illustration only. This does not represent a final measure and may change significantly before it becomes finalized.
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What is Needed? Evidence!
• Prehospital Guidelines Consortium working to identify evidence base for new guidelines
• Need to understand implications of evidence in rural vs urban areas and ensure the perspectives are incorporated
• Disseminating new guidelines for rapid widespread adoption is critical
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• “Previvors” will become common in rural and remote areas as a direct result of strong EMS and healthcare systems supported by information AND technology!
Paramedicine Vision - Of The Future
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ContactNick Nudell, MS, NRP, FACPE
Chief Data Officer & Board Member of The Paramedic Foundation, a (501c3) non-profit charity
Board Member of the National EMS Management Association
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