Discipline: Emergency Medical Services

EMS Portal

  • April 27th, 2015
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About

The Alabama Emergency Medical Services and Trauma data has been configured to display in the dashboard shown below.

Currently there is only one database on this portal but other databases can be added to the portal.

Features

  • Displays Summary Data
  • Performs Dynamic Analysis
  • Drill Down tab for specific filtering of data
  • Applies Filters to Data
  • Does Side-By-Side Data Comparisons
  • Performs Crosstabs of Two Variables
  • Fast – Uses CARE Processing Engine
  • Does Timeline Analysis
  • Data sources updated regularly for timely data
  • Exports data, charts and graphs to Excel or as an image

RESCUE

  • April 27th, 2015
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About

RESCUE is data entry software for EMS run data to be used on a laptop in ambulances and emergency response vehicles. RESCUE includes an electronic transmission procedure that immediately transfers the data into a database at the State’s central repository. RESCUE is under development at the Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) at the University of Alabama. CAPS is collaborating with the Office of EMS and Trauma within the Alabama Department of Public Health.

The State of Alabama Office of EMS and Trauma plans to provide the RESCUE software to any Alabama EMS agency that desires to use it at no cost to the agency. The goal is that RESCUE will be used statewide over the course of time. If agencies use other software, a web service and web application will be provided so that agencies may submit valid NEMSIS 3 data.

This project is sponsored by the Alabama Office of Highway Safety.

Features

  • NEMSIS 3 compliant electronic Patient Care Report (ePCR) form
  • Over 570 data elements
  • Driver’s license barcode and magnetic stripe scanning
  • Auto-Population of Demographic and GPS information
  • XML Schema and Schematron Validation to minimize errors
  • Improved data quality
  • Electronic submission allows for paperless system
  • Eliminates redundant data entry
  • Greatly improved timeliness of data
  • Windows XP, Vista, Win 7 & 8 compatible
  • Written in Microsoft .NET 4
  • SQLite database

Download the RESCUE Flyer

CARE

  • March 19th, 2014
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About

The Critical Analysis Reporting Environment (CARE) is a data analysis software package originally designed for problem identification and countermeasure development in traffic safety applications.

It uses advanced analytical and statistical techniques to generate valuable information directly form data.
Using CARE’s step-by-step on screen menus, it is easy to turn data into enlightening information.

CARE provides:

  • descriptive statistics
  • information mining
  • geographical information system access
  • roadway engineering support
  • dashboard support

CARE’s dashboard support includes access to real-time statistics on key law enforcement systems including:

  • traffic citations
  • crash reports
  • criminal incident reports
  • other critical systems for which we have developed field data capture software

Dashboards have been deployed for:

  • police agencies
  • traffic engineers
  • traffic safety stakeholders

While its primary use is for traffic safety, CARE can be used to process any database including:

  • emergency medical services
  • medical data
  • nursing data
  • questionnaires
  • criminal justice

The CARE software for traffic safety applications is available free of charge. In order to take full advantage of CARE, existing data must be converted into a CARE dataset. In the case of a state, initial state CARE data sets can be created by having the state’s current database read by CARE’s Extract=Translate-Load (ETL) to produce the various CARE datasets that form the CARE warehouse. CAPS can create the initial state CARE dataset for your state for a reasonable fee. Contact Us.

The CARE software exists in both a desktop version for Windows OS and a Web version. CARE can be downloaded here or installed from a CD. Additionally, some highway safety CARE capabilities are also available online at the CARE Online Analysis site.

CARE is an award-winning program:
NHTSA 1995 Administrator’s Public Service Award
Runner-up for the 2015 ATSIP Best Practice Award.

Using the CARE program will undoubtedly assist the traffic safety program of any organization that chooses to use it.

Identifying High Frequency Crash Locations: Empowering End-Users with GIS Capabilities

  • January 1st, 2007
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This paper presented the status of CARE with emphasis on its newly created GIS capabilities as of January, 2007. Emphasis is placed on the following aspects of the CARE/GIS system:

  • The timeliness of the data and the use of temporal analysis to track changes over time;
  • The ability to create filters using GIS and use them within the CARE analytical engines;
  • The integration of demographic GIS layers for schools, hospitals, bridges, census data; roadway inventory, railroads, etc.;
  • The extension of the desktop system to a Web-based system.

Several additional innovations have been made to CARE since early 2007, and those interested are urged to review the CARE pages within this site.