Emergency Transfer Communication Measure

Percentage of all patients transferred from an Emergency Department to another healthcare facility whose medical record documentation indicated that all required information was communicated (sent) to the receiving facility within 60 minutes of transfer For all data elements, the definition of ‘sent’ includes the following:
• Hard copy sent directly with the patient, or 
• Sent via fax or phone within 60 minutes of patient departure, or
• Immediately available via shared Electronic health record (EHR) or Health Information Exchange (HIE) (see definition below)

For purposes of this measure, a shared electronic health record (EHR) is defined as one where data entered into the system is immediately available at the receiving site. Facilities using the same EHR vendor or a Health Information Exchange (HIE) cannot assume immediate access by the receiving facility to the transferred patient’s record.