This version of the State EMS Forms was posted on this site on 02/15/2005, and revised by the state on 2/2/2007. Last Update 01/11/2010.

 Alaska began submitting to NEMSIS in 2009

In 2006, current EMS systems used by other states were reviewed for the purpose of developing an RFP. In 2006 and 2007, money from the EMS Optimization grant was used to develop an RFP. The project was bid in November 2007 and awarded in December 2007. The contractor selected was Image Trend, a gold vendor, from Minnesota. A contract was finalized in January 2008 and work began on design and implementation in February of 2008. By May 2008 we successfully went online and began training. The system was named in contest with EMS service statewide to be "Alaska Uniform Response Online Reporting Access", or AURORA. Training and piloting the system began in June of 2008. Training of services will continue through May of 2009 with an objective of all EMS services reporting by June 2009. The system is a web based system that gives each EMS services its own rights to use. The site contains allows EMS medical directors and hospitals to access patient records for those patients encountered by a specific EMS service and/or brought to a specific Hospital. The data collected is NEMSIS compliant. The system is active and services are beginning to report.

The Trauma Registry details injury specific crash data for on and off road crashes within the state of Alaska starting in 1991. Until 2007 this spanned 1991-2004, 2005 was finally added in 2007. Increasing the available data by 7.1%. The Trauma registry is in the process of converting from CALES System Trauma Register and Digital Innovations Collector into a single data base in the Image Trend product. It is part of the overall Alaska Uniform Response Online Reporting Access (AURORA) project. The new Trauma Registry is linked to prehospital EMS reports using NEMSIS element to directly populate the trauma registry with prehospital information at a hospital that receives a patient from a prehospital provider. The new registry is update with the most current American College of Surgeon's National Trauma Data Bank definitions, State of Alaska additional definitions and variables. The system is being pilot tested in Fairbanks Memorial Hospital with input from registrars at Alaska Native Medical Center, Providence Hospital and Alaska Regional Hospital. We anticipate training all 24 hospital registrars in the summer of 2009 with full conversion and direct web based input of data by January of 2010. This direct input should alleviate past reporting problems resulting in data not being available for up to three years. It will standardize reporting and improve data mining. This project also has added four other data tools; Census tracking, Weather Cubing, Data Mining, and Tree Analysis. These programs enhance the ability to determine co morbidity factors and timeliness of reporting for local areas down the zip code. CDC and NIOSH compliant fields for ethnicity and race are added. Alaska specific variables, for e.g. Alaska Native, is also present. Data is current to 2006, and 2007 date is currently being collected. Parts of 2008 and 2009 are also concurrently being collected. We expect full implementation is spring of 2010.

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Alaska EMS Run Sheet (rev.5/99)

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State of Alaska Prehospital Care Report  5/1999 (.PDF, 32.45k)

Alaska Trauma Data Dictionary 1/2002 (.PDF, 12,179k)

NHTSA Reassessment  9/1999 (.PDF, 82.56k)

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