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
A new Ebola Treatment Unit will have a capacity of 100 patients, but the number of patients is slowly dropping
Humidity and decontamination needs make documentation a low priority in Liberia, but without it few treatment lessons will be learned
Once these traits become ingrained in a department culture, eradication becomes close to impossible
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson debate whether a NYC police officer should have been cleared in a videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed man, and welcome Greg Friese as the new EMS1 Editor-in-Chief
Experienced providers should re-evaluate priorities before riding a bad idea into the ground
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the draft CAAS ground ambulance standards open for public comment, and the effect Ferguson is having on local responders
While reduced riots bring the hope that the situation may soon diffuse, responders are prepared to go on for weeks
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the need for more resources to help paramedics deal with mental health issues
At EMS1, we’ve been providing exclusive coverage and analysis on the civil unrest through our lens as paramedics