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
Funding a grant application is an investment that grant-makers seek to maximize the benefit to the agency and the community
Volunteer EMS agencies can be the best option for 911 services in many areas, but response must be guaranteed
An expert panel at the NAEMSP pre-conference explored data, regulations, policy, financing and sustainability for EMS administrators and medical directors implementing MIH or CP programs
Leaders of EMS advocacy and membership organizations articulate how they would spend the record-breaking Powerball jackpot
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Develop restraint polices, train to apply restraints and adhere to those policies when behavioral emergency patient restraint is indicated
Although Medicare and Medicaid rules are lengthy and confusing, EMS leaders and field providers must ensure compliance
Chiefs and field providers need to change the culture that condones fraud into one that truly determines competency
When stakeholders perceive the process as rushed, pre-determined and opaque, their skepticism and mistrust rule the day