FW: [texastrauma-l] TRISA Project Weekly Progress Report 4-27-09

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Update from the Trauma Registry folk:

DSHS Trauma Registry Improvement System Assessment (TRISA) Project

Weekly Update, Week of April 27, 2009

The Map and Report vendor has submitted a draft Stakeholder Facilitation

Plan which is currently undergoing internal review. The major goal of

the facilitation plan is to collect and document stakeholder

requirements for the replacement Trauma Registry system. Specific

objectives outlined in the draft plan include: 1) maximizing stakeholder

participation in developing the requirements, 2) developing a strategy

that focuses on a new system and not issues from the past, 3) defining

requirements to improve stakeholder participation, 4) identifying new

and emerging alternatives for future solutions, and 5) obtaining

stakeholder justification and rationale for suggested requirements as

applicable. MTG is planning on traveling to 8 areas of the state in June

to gather stakeholder and user input from both EMS and Hospitals. This

week the consultants also met with the database contractor to review and

confirm the current Registry's technical requirements and DSHS staff

began working on future data requirements to serve as a baseline for

obtaining system user data requirements.

This update was forwarded on behalf of

F. Villanacci, Ph.D., NREMTI, Director

Environ. & Injury Epidemiology and Toxicology Unit

Environmental Epidemiology and Disease Registries Section; MC 1964

Texas Department of State Health Services