Getting started with Ambulance Run Data Sync

Ambulance Run Data Sync receives electronic patient care report (ePCR) data from the EMS agencies that bring patients to your emergency department and turns it into a pre-arrival record on the ED tracking and trauma screens. Your charge nurse and trauma team see the mechanism of injury, vital signs, treatments given and estimated arrival while the unit is still en route, and decide how to prepare. After arrival the record is matched to the registered patient and the completed run report is filed to the chart.

What it is for

Most emergency departments learn about an incoming patient from a short radio or phone report, written on a whiteboard or scrap of paper and passed along by word of mouth. The crew has often documented far more in its ePCR, but the full report arrives after handoff, if at all, and is filed somewhere clinicians rarely look. Trauma activation decisions are made on partial information, the patient is registered under a temporary name that has to be reconciled later, and trauma registrars chase EMS agencies for run reports weeks after the event.

• Pre-arrival reports are verbal, brief and recorded by hand
• Vital signs and treatments documented by the crew are not visible until after handoff
• Temporary registrations have to be matched to run reports by hand
• Trauma registrars chase missing run reports long after the patient arrived

Who uses it

• Emergency department charge nurses and physicians who prepare for incoming patients
• Trauma teams and trauma program managers at designated trauma centers
• Patient registration staff who create quick and trauma registrations
• EMS coordinators and hospital EMS liaisons who work with regional agencies
• Trauma registrars and quality staff who need complete run reports

Before you start

• Your organization licenses Ambulance Run Data Sync from Moraph.
• A Moraph client account in that organization, signed in.
• Access to Ambulance Run Data Sync in Moraph Apps, given by an administrator in the Moraph Portal under People and access.
• For setup: the product administrator role.

Steps to get started

1. Sign in at app.moraph.com with your Moraph account.

2. Open Ambulance Run Data Sync from the launcher. The first time anyone opens it, its workspace is created from the default described in Workspace reference.

3. Check your role: what you can see and do depends on it. See Roles and permissions.

4. Product administrators: work through Set up Ambulance Run Data Sync before your team starts.

5. Everyone else: start with Everyday tasks.

Where to go next

• Set up Ambulance Run Data Sync
• Everyday tasks
• Connect your systems
• Security, data and compliance
• Troubleshooting and the support guide
• Product overview on moraph.com