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In this week’s Inside EMS podcast, hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss why community paramedicine is the future of EMS and also explain the level of education paramedics and EMTs need in order to practice these skills.
“Fire departments have been a little slow to get on to the community paramedic bandwagon,” Chris said. “Community paramedicine is the future of our business. We are going to be more of a community health entity rather than being more than an emergency medical response agency.”
Chris and Kelly talk about mobile integrated healthcare in their clinical issue segment. They argue on if this is the future of EMS — from training, to reimbursement to infringing on our Home Health partners.
They also interview Ray Kemp, EMS1 executive video producer, on the use of helmet cams and how can we stop bystanders from filming us when we are treating patients in the public.
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Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned on the show:
Ore. governor does CPR on woman dying in street
N.M. fire chief looking at ways to cut ER visits
Will community paramedicine help or hurt EMS?
How to build a community paramedicine program
Va. turns to mobile integrated health care to lighten ER loads
Home health calls expand the role of the EMT
5 changes affecting EMS in 2014
How Obamacare can boost fire-based EMS revenue
How not to incriminate yourself at breaking news scenes
