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.
Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore on recognizing EMS as an essential service with the funding and career pathways to match
SPOTLIGHT ON AI
Closing out the year with a rapid-fire look at what frontline providers are really saying — from spinal immobilization, to swiping through microlearning
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss a threat by an Ariz. ambulance company to go on strike over pension pay
In this issue: NASEMSO EMS standards project underway; On Leadership columns looks at employee perception of the agency’s ‘suck factor’
Plans to consolidate the two EMS leadership organizations have been suspended after a year of discussion
The new CPR course focuses specifically on BLS care, and uses realistic training and scenarios
Praise often goes to the team as a whole, while individual members that make mistakes are often disciplined in public rather than in private
NASEMSO launched a two-year effort to research and publish a set of measures that EMS agencies can use to gauge their own performance
Five questions every EMS leader should ask employees about their perceptions of the organization
Guests Greg Friese and Steve Whitehead debate whether field mistakes are something EMS needs to prepare for, or if providers should be able to avoid those mistakes altogether
EMS leaders can use a professional development plan to identify and attain short-term and long-term goals