Emergency Medical Workgroup

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Emergency Medical Workgroup

• Charge
• Identify the communications needs and
  requirements of emergency medical users
• Review proposals by other work groups as it
  relates to the needs of emergency medical users.
• Key deliverables
• Statement of Requirements (SoR)
• Use cases
• Progress

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EMWG Report Organization

• Introduction
• Where we are now
• Planning
• Operability
• Interoperability
• Where we want to be
• Planning
• Operability
• Interoperability
• How we get there
• Planning
• Operability
• Interoperability

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How We Get There

• Recommendations
• Federal Interagency Advisory Committee
• Changes to Federal Communications Grant Guidance
• Develop Model State Legislation
• Additional Funding

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How We Get There

• Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency
  Communications
• Federal Agency Coordination
• Coordinated by USDHS/OIC-OEC
• Well-funded State/Local Advisory Committee
• Public Safety/EMS/Public Health/Health Facilities
• DOT/PW/Amateur Radio/Other
• State/Local Government
• Develop System and Component Standards
• Provide Strong Central Guidance Performance
  Measures
• Track National Progress

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How We Get There

• Change Federal Grant Guidance
• Emergency Medical and Public Health Interests
  Represented in Planning and SCIPS
• Assure On-Going EMS/PH Participation
• Require Operational Testing and Excercises

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How We Get There

• Model State Legislation
• EMS Communications Plan Required
• Must Be Coordinated With SCIP
• EMS/Health/Medical/Represented on SIEC
• Must Encourage Prioritized Development
• Basic Operability Fix 1970s Infrastructure
• Basic Operability Statewide System Development
  and Coordination (Not Ad Hoc)
• Basic Operability Redundancy and Hardening
• Basic Interoperability Routine Daily
  Communications Among EMS, Public Health and
  Facilities
• Basic Interoperability Move Right On SafeCom
  Interoperability Continuum

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How We Get There

• Secure Additional Funding
• Program to Project and Secure Needed Bandwidth
  and Other Resources
• Rural/Frontier EMS and Telemedicine Systems for
  Community Paramedicine
• EMS Agencies Eligible for Universal Service
  program Funds
• Define EMS personnel as public safety personnel
  under the Stafford Act
• CMS Fund Advanced Technology Communications/Inform
  ation Systems as ED Uncompensated Care for EMS
  Oversight

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EM Work Group

• Plan
• Consensus on Recommendations
• Reverse Engineer Previous Sections
• Process
• Conference call 12/7 4PM ET
• NASEMSO/NAEMSP/NPSTC Review 12/11
• Next Call 12/20 230 400 PM ET