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
It’s critical that EMS teams be comprised of a group of trusted people
Destination protocols should be based on clinically based criteria and not decided by a phone call to a hospital physician
Highly detailed and specific protocols might create better employees but they don’t create better providers
Researchers investigate the capability of bystanders to treat a simulated opioid overdose with intranasal naloxone versus auto-injector naloxone
CMS extends the prior authorization program, through Dec. 1, 2019, to eight states and Washington DC
Collect and keep important agency performance indicators in a single document for easy inclusion in a grant application narrative
Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson talk about scene safety following the vicious attack on two Detroit medics
Instead of placarding an ambulance with “In God We Trust” a county-funded EMS agency might have considered alternative uses for the time and funds
If the leaders of an EMS agency have failed to prepare personnel for an active shooter response, they need to get the training done, one way or another