As the leading voice for MIH, NAMIHP continues to bring Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) to the national stage, securing recognition for the vital work being done by community paramedics across the country. To establish consistent funding and reimbursement, it’s time to ensure MIH is integrated into the broader healthcare system.
Over the past decade, MIH programs have transformed healthcare delivery—bridging care gaps, reducing hospital admissions, and improving patient outcomes. While many programs initially launched with grant funding, long-term sustainability requires systematic reimbursement structures and policy support at both state and national levels.
To continue driving this forward, we need to demonstrate the impact of MIH on a large scale. NAMIHP is calling on programs to share their stories, services footprint, impact, and data-driven insights to strengthen the case for lasting policy and funding solutions. Your voice matters—join us in shaping the future of MIH.
Forming a Big Picture of MIH
MIH teams form and grow based on the needs of their local populations, making each team unique. These teams deliver essential, compassionate care to their communities. And although each team is unique, many perform similar services, with similar goals and outcomes. Yet, teams often use different words to describe similar services.
To move forward, we need to showcase our national story, one that combines patient care stories with data to demonstrate impact. We need to all use the same language. NAMIHP is engaged in two main efforts to move us further in that direction: the NEMSIS minimum data set for MIH, and our Future of MIH/CP Survey
The NAMIHP Impact Survey
NAMIHP worked with stakeholders, developing this set of questions to get a clearer picture of the structure of MIH/CP teams across the country. We encourage everyone to complete the survey, telling us more about your team and the legislative landscape in your area.
Your participation will help us show trends and successes in MIH/CP, identify areas for growth, and demonstrate national impact. Your answers will be used to direct association efforts for data-driven advocacy, resource development, and best practice recommendations.
Developing a National MIH/CP Data Set
Telling the story is half the effort, recognizing national consistency for MIH/CP data is also invaluable. We’ve continued support of NEMSIS in efforts for developing a core MIH data set. At our recent Spring Summit, NEMSIS representatives joined 60+ MIH/CP experts to talk through the data set development process. This session sparked lively conversation around how to define the work that MIH professionals do every day. To allow us to share stories and demonstrate impact using the same language, a language that payers and national decisionmakers can recognize.
“If we can pull together data into a bigger picture, we can go to legislators, program administrators, hospitals, different healthcare entities and show this is the value, and this is why the work we do should continue and get more support,” said Jason Frye of Campbell County Health EMS.
Attendees provided detailed feedback, with NEMSIS recognizing the immense value of having professionals contribute their expertise to the process. The data set is just one more way for MIH teams to aggregate data on care provided, which can be shared more universally with clinicians, researchers, and other MIH teams.
The Future of MIH Reporting
Technology vendors value the development of a standard data set and language to develop tools that make reporting and documentation more streamlined for teams. NAMIHP sponsor and software vendor ESO shared what this standardized data would mean for them.
“For our company, being able to tell that whole data story from when someone calls 911 to when they get dropped off at the hospital is really important to us,” said Chris Montera, Senior Director of State and Federal Programs at ESO. “With the data set, we can tell a more complete story and can talk about trends we see across the country. We can use data to better the industry.”
He said that an MIH data set and standardized data collection would allow technology vendors and providers to create a longitudinal picture. Data collection begins with the 911 call, continues with a visit with an MIH team, and, when relevant, to a hospital admission and diagnosis. Standardization allows technology vendors to compile that information into a more complete picture of care, making it easier to demonstrate impacts on outcomes. As MIH teams continue to innovate in their programs, NAMIHP wants to be an integral part of sharing impact and elevating the profession. Join us by filling out the survey and possibly being named as an MIH contributor, becoming a member, or sponsoring an event.