Abstract: An EMS medical record acquisition system is provided. The system is configured to provide medical record information to an EMS rescuer in a mobile EMS environment. The system includes a user device, a patient identification data source, and a medical record digest system. The digest system is coupled to the user device and to the patient identification source. The digest system receives identification data from the patient identification source, queries a medical record repository using the identification data, receives a medical record for the patient from the medical record repository, generates a reference code based on the identification data, stores the medical record with the reference code, transmits the reference code to the user device, receives a query including the reference code from the user device, generates a digest at least a portion of the medical record, and provides the digest to the user device.

Abstract: A patient data charting system for automated data capture by an electronic patient care record (ePCR) generated during a patient encounter with emergency medical services (EMS) includes a local computing device including a processor, and a memory storing an ePCR including ePCR data fields, and a user interface device communicatively coupled to the local computing device and including a microphone and speaker, wherein the microphone may be configured to capture spoken patient encounter information, wherein the processor may be configured to receive the spoken patient encounter information as text information from a speech-to-text conversion application, determine at least one ePCR data field value based on the text information, populate at least one ePCR data field with the at least one ePCR data field value, generate caregiver prompts based on the at least one ePCR data field value, and provide the audible caregiver prompts to the caregiver via the speaker.