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The Clinical Informatics Division of STRAC combines the region’s ongoing commitment to quality clinical care with today’s cutting edge healthcare information technology initiatives. Currently the Clinical Informatics Division oversees the region’s Tablet PCR (electronic field data collection for EMS) project and Regional Hospital Trauma Registry. Each of these projects represents the largest of their kind in Texas and perhaps the U.S.
STRAC has maintained a regional trauma registry for about the last 8 years. All of the designated trauma facilities in the region submit data to our regional registry for aggregation. This registry currently has approximately 40,000 records.
In addition to the hospital trauma registry, STRAC maintains an electronic field data collection system for the EMS providers in our region who choose to take advantage of the system. This system has also been in place for about 8 years. We currently collect EMS patient care data from approximately 29 of the 40 or so 911 EMS providers in our region as well as two EMS providers in the CATRAC. In aggregate we estimate that our current EMS data represents greater than 95% of all EMS data for the region. This registry currently has just under 700,000 records.
STRAC has just deployed an ICU registry for the two level I trauma centers in San Antonio. Our plan is to expand this ICU Registry to the level III facilities in the region as this registry matures.
We currently collect data from all of our PCI and Stroke centers, however this is more of a manual process as we seek regional registry products for each of these clinical specialties.
STRAC has also entered into an agreement with our trauma registry vendor to deploy a new system of linking patients in each of the respective clinical registries in order to view the “trajectory” of patient care. This system will also feature new, more robust reporting capabilities for the users of our region. Another added feature of this product will give us the ability to use and link data from those 911 providers not using our electronic field data collection system.
