- Does this replace our ePCR?
- No. TurnoutFlow holds no patient care data, so keep your ePCR for patient care reports. ePCR is planned, and it will ship only after its compliance work, HIPAA and NEMSIS among it, is done.
- We are EMS only. Does the incident reporting apply to us?
- Incident reporting in TurnoutFlow is built for NERIS, the national fire reporting system, so it serves fire-based EMS and combination departments. For an EMS-only agency the value is in recruiting, credentials, CE, crew scheduling, and rig checks.
- Can it track our controlled substances?
- No. Rig and bag checks cover equipment and expiration dates, never medications. Keep your controlled-substance log where it is.
- Does it page our crews?
- Dispatch alerts to members’ phones are coming with the TurnoutFlow phone app, so keep your paging system until then. Today members say when they are available from the app, and staff can email the members who could fill a short crew.
- We are a fire department that runs the ambulance.
- Then all of it applies: the same record covers your firefighters and your EMTs, and your incident reports go to NERIS from TurnoutFlow.