With NEMSIS 3.5.0, CARES has introduced multiple schematron variants to aid in adoption of CARES in State and vendor systems.
All vendor and State systems wishing to submit CARES records should utilize the Required schematron at a minimum.
More details on the NEMSIS 3.5.0 elements CARES collects are available in the 3.5.0 XML Data Dictionary.
[FATAL] violations will trigger file rejection and are usually due to an incorrect format or value passed in an element.
Because the file would fail at database level in these cases, we reject them.
Recent changes for the below files can be found in the Change Log.
🔴 This set of rules is ideal for State adoption and is the required baseline for vendor integration. This only contains the CARES requirements, and each rule has context so that states can adopt it and use it in conjunction with other incident types.
CARES 3.5.0 Required Schematron