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Illinois NEMSIS Specifications
Illinois Department of Public Health Division of EMS and Highway Safety Prehospital Data Program
The following files contain information needed by software vendors to produce a NEMSIS v3-compliant electronic data export to the state of Illinois:
- A list of the elements being collected by the State
- Specific Destination, Agency, and EMS System codes
- Data consistency rules that will be enforced
- The Illinois Schematron file
Table of Contents
Using the Online XML Validator
To use the online XML validator (no password required):
- Manually validate a file via the online validator web page, or
- Validate files via the web service
Using the Compliance Website to Validate or Submit Datasets
To log onto the Compliance Website to validate and/or submit datasets for compliance testing, use the username and password provided to you when you initiated the compliance testing process, and:
- Manually validate test files or securely upload them for compliance testing on the Secure Test Data Submission Portal, or
- Submit files for compliance testing via the web service
Using the Data Upload Website to Validate or Submit Datasets to IDPH
To log onto the Data Upload Website to validate and/or submit NEMSIS datasets to the State of Illinois, use the username and password provided to you when you completed the compliance testing process, and:
- Manually validate XML files or securely upload them to the State using the Secure Data Submission Portal, or
- Submit XML files to the State via the web service
Data Validation Overview
NEMSIS Elements Collected by State of Illinois
- NEMSIS Elements being collected by Illinois (149 KB PDF file) 01-28-2016
- NOTE: In addition to submission of an EMS dataset, submission of a Demographic (Agency) dataset is also required. The State of Illinois only requires the NEMSIS "National" elements for the Demographic dataset.
- Revision History
- NEMSIS Elements to be collected by Illinois when V3.5 goes live
Destination Codes
EMS System Numbers
EMS Agency Numbers
Suggested List of Codes
- "Suggested Lists" of codes for certain elements (link to the NEMSIS Version 3 Resource web page)
- A number of data elements in the Illinois prehospital dataset rely on existing national and international standards as sources for element values
- A shortcoming of this approach is that these standards may contain thousands of values that are not applicable to the prehospital setting
- To facilitate the use of these codes, NEMSIS has prepared "suggested lists" of values consisting of subsets of the complete code sets for use in these elements
- Illinois has adopted these NEMSIS suggested lists without modification, with the exception of the Cause of Injury list, which should also include T40.0, T40.1, T40.2, T40.3, T40.4, T40.6