This ongoing project is funded by the West Virginia State Trauma and Emergency Care System, Bureau for Public Health through an applications and database use agreement. This project supports the development, implementation and maintenance of the West Virginia EMS Data System, including the PreMIS, CIS and SMARTT web applications. As of January 2010, all West Virginia EMS agencies have been enrolled and trained in the PreMIS system and many are actively submitting data.

From the state EMS medical director, Dr. William Ramsey:

We've partnered with the EMS Performance Improvement Center at the University of North Carolina to utilize the entire EMS data system currently being used on a state-wide basis in North Carolina for almost two years.

This system includes the Prehospital Medical Information System (PreMIS) record collection and storage system as well as the Credentialing Information System (CIS) which provides collection and tracking of EMS personnel and agencies.

WVPreMIS will become the benchmark EPCR for West Virginia, ensuring strong compliance with the NEMSIS federal information system. More importantly, this new adherence to NEMSIS standards will allow for detailed EMS run data analysis and quality improvement programs. Coupled with a new Credentialing Information System (CIS) that will provide the underpinnings of a solid and complete EMS data system, WVPreMIS will pave the road towards true quality analysis of West Virginia run data.

Agencies that wish to use their own EPCR instead of WVPreMIS for data collection and submission must pass a West Virginia certification program (read West Virginia EPCR Vendor Requirements) to ensure compatibility with both the federal information standard (NEMSIS) and West Virginia's specific requirements