EMS CE Web Application PA DOH EMS Office

6/20/03 EMS Office Goals of this presentation Explain the system design Provide an overview of the criticality of participation and “buy in” Identify reasonable expectations of the application Describe the testing process & schedule

6/20/03 EMS Office Primary Objectives New Course Application View CE credits on- line

6/20/03 EMS Office Additional Class registration on-line Statewide class list Sponsor & Training Institute lists

6/20/03 EMS Office New Course Application Applicant submits via web & sends to region Region reviews/recommends & sends to EMS Office EMS Office approves/disapproves If approved, EMS Office assigns # Course added to master list & web

6/20/03 EMS Office New Course Application (cont.) Data is exported to CETAC CETAC compares to data currently in CETAC CETAC accepts valid changes & updates

6/20/03 EMS Office New Course Application Criticality All new courses must be entered into the CE web application To update CETAC To provide a record of communication on the submission To make the system work

6/20/03 EMS Office Class Registrations Applicant chooses to register a class CE Web Application looks to see if they are a valid CE Sponsor or Training Inst. If yes, they may continue registering the class, sending it to the region Region reviews/approves/disapproves If approved, region assigns # Sent to web

6/20/03 EMS Office Class Registration Criticality All class registrations must be entered into the CE web application To update CETAC To provide a record of communication on the submission To make the system work To produce the statewide list of class offerings

6/20/03 EMS Office Sponsor/Training Institute List Will contain a primary contact who can manage/update the people authorized to submit class registrations for the CE Sponsor or Training Institute once they have a user profile on the system. Will contain the list of people authorized to submit class registrations for CE and/or certification classes May be able to provide information to update the master database.

6/20/03 EMS Office CE Credit View Allows a practitioner to view his/her own CE earned/recorded in the system The practitioner must create a user profile to access the system

6/20/03 EMS Office System Testing Process System testing began on June 4 th and continued until June 13 th. Approximately 35 people from 5 regional EMS councils participated in the system testing phase. System tests went very well, identified a multitude of issues that have been addressed and corrected as well as many things that worked well from the beginning.

6/20/03 EMS Office Implementation Implementation is scheduled to begin the last week in June and continue to the mid-July, st week – 5 regions that did testing 2 nd week – 4 additional regions 3 rd week – 4 additional regions 4 th week – 3 final regions

6/20/03 EMS Office What is Needed? It is essential that CE sponsors and training institutes manage their users and oversee class registrations Good data in, to get good data out The more complete the data is when it is entered, the easier it is to find when searching

6/20/03 EMS Office Data Entry No abbreviations Spell-out ALL acronyms (put acronyms in parenthesis) Correct spelling (can’t find words that are not spelled correctly) Consistency in organization names, course titles, etc.

6/20/03 EMS Office Have a Good Experience! Questions should be directed to the regional EMS council System issues should be ed to