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
Being overweight is a threat to our patients, to our health and to our livelihood
The firefighters who assaulted a young woman pursuing her paramedic dream are still at the departments she was dismissed from for reporting the incidents
Coworkers — men and women — bullied and tormented a young paramedic during a difficult period of her life instead of training, mentoring and supporting her
Whether she was bullied or not, Nicole Mittendorff’s suicide should make chiefs and officers take a hard look at their department’s culture
These concrete actions will help firefighters, paramedics and officers eliminate harassing behavior from their departments
Eradicating harassing behavior toward female firefighters and paramedics will take more than good policy and practice
By triaging patients with mental illness, especially repeat users, the Grady EMS Upstream Crisis Intervention Group provider has improved care, saved significant money and boosted morale
EMS providers need to admit that prehospital patient care errors can and do happen to begin addressing this serious cause of patient injury and death
Learn the signs and symptoms for this significant pediatric airway and ventilation emergency