As AI tools move quickly from concept to deployment, EMS leaders face practical questions about value, risk and readiness. This series provides clear, applied guidance for chiefs, directors and agency leaders on how to evaluate and implement AI to support clinical care, reduce documentation burden, improve decision-making, streamline operations and simplify workforce management.
At NEMSMA’s leadership conference, Dr. Brent Myers makes the case that waiting for federal guidance is a losing strategy — and local governance is the only path forward.
SPOTLIGHT ON AI
Why EMS leaders must break the cycle of overwork, silence and unrealistic expectations
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
Here’s a summary of the types of questions the Eagles asked one another from the last year
When team members do not mesh well, it can add stress to an already stressful environment
EMS chief explains Allina Health EMS business case for increasing workforce diversity to improve patient care and the organization’s ROI
Community paramedics have an opportunity to change EMS response to overdose and addiction through application of harm reduction techniques
SWOT analysis gives volunteers the opportunity to participate in the development of an action plan for training, increased competence and success
Even if PTSD becomes a workers’ compensational eligible occupational disease, EMS leaders need to change the culture for traumatic stress treatment
State legislators have passed or are considering several pieces of legislation intended to improve EMS working conditions and safety for providers
The Legal Guardian answers a reader’s question about if legal liability starts at time of dispatch or time of patient contact
Our co-hosts share tips to assist with conflict resolution in the cab