FW: Reminder about TRISA Meeting on Wed and Comments from Houston Meeting

[Guest guest]

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From: Leigh Anne Bedrich

RE: Stakeholder Meetings for DSHS Statewide Registry

Project

TO: NCTTRAC Members

DUE: 17 June 2009, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm for EMS and 1:00

pm - 5:00 pm for hospitals

ACTION: Schedule in Calendar and Print Handouts

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is in the process

of formally assessing the current EMS/Trauma Registry system. This

assessment, called the Trauma Registry Improvement System Assessment

(TRISA) Project, has stemmed from DSHS and stakeholder concerns over the

integrity, usefulness and viability of the current system.

As a final reminder, this Wednesday, June 17, is the only opportunity

within TSA-E for input into the DSHS TRISA Project.

June 17 Grapevine Convention Center

Concord I

1209 South Main Street

Grapevine, Texas 76051

http://maps.google.Grapvine

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=1209+South+Main

+Street,+Grapevine,+Texas+76051&geocode=&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=37.0625,-95.67

7068&sspn=32.66491,54.931641&ie=UTF8&z=16>

All EMS providers, trauma service providers, and any others interested

in contributing to the development of the Texas EMS/Trauma Registry are

encouraged to attend. In general, MTG will meet with EMS providers in

the mornings from 8am-12pm and with hospital providers in the afternoons

from 1pm-5pm. Lunch will be on your own, but there are many restaurants

available in the immediate downtown Grapevine area.

Please refer to the DSHS website for handout materials as MTG will NOT

be providing copies at the meetings -

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/injury/review.shtm

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/injury/review.shtm>

There was a meeting held recently in the Houston area and there were

less than 10 EMS providers and only a handful of different hospitals

represented. Comments from DSHS on the meeting in Houston were:

While the attendance was a little less than anticipated, the individuals

who participated were engaged in the meeting and provided valuable

input. MTG is documenting the results and detailed analysis and

information will be provided in the report deliverable.

* MTG received positive feedback on the process after the session.

Additionally, the DSHS program received positive feedback. The one

concern from Mr. Rives, SouthEast Texas Trauma Regional Advisory

Council, was that the Houston Fire Department (HFD) did not attend

because they are a big contributor and have a proprietary system. MTG

will contact them and HFD has told that they will attend the

Austin Session on July 13th.

* The major lesson learned from the initial session is the need to

reduce the apparent redundancy when reviewing the potential data

requirements for EMS and Hospital stakeholders. Although the data fields

are discrete, for the purposes of gathering requirements many can be

combined. MTG has discussed this with DSHS and will make improvements

for subsequent sessions.

* Riippi and Brent Meadows will be conducting the next session

in Harlingen on 6/8/09. Contact has been made with the facility to

coordinate the meeting. San is scheduled for 6/12/09.

Through the leadership of your Board of Directors, NCTTRAC is also

working on a priority project to provide seamless input from your

current registries into a regional registry for local reporting and

management; however whatever solution agreed upon by NCTTRAC will also

require interface with that chosen by Texas DSHS. Your input on both

projects is encouraged and welcomed.

There is also more information available, including other meeting dates

and locations, on the DSHS website:

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/emstraumasystems/TraumaRegistryImprovProj.sh

tm

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/emstraumasystems/TraumaRegistryImprovProj.s

htm>

LAB

Leigh Anne Bedrich, LP, MA, EFO

Emergency Healthcare Systems Program Manager

North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council

Metro:

Direct:

www.ncttrac.org http://www.ncttrac.org>