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
The most demanding yet unrecognized and unrewarded job in EMS is that of the supervisor, manager and leader who really cares about their workers
Rampart is the cornerstone of a sophisticated emergency medical system with cutting-edge goals that mirror some of the leading ideas in healthcare reform, community paramedicine and mobile integrated healthcare
Shift lengths, staffing, and response problems at center of the dispute between labor and management
Here’s how EMS organizations can better prepare and mentor those promoted into supervisory or management roles
Protocols and partnerships are critical to success of implementing a nurse triage program
EMS providers to enter the warm zone with law enforcement to reach victims in need of lifesaving treatments
Healthcare delivery and payment is rapidly evolving; now is the time for EMS to act and be part of that change
As you build a dashboard of vital measures for your system, keep in mind the vital functions in your system which, if they failed, would have a major negative impact
Former Toronto EMS leaders Alan Craig talks about his transition to AMR, and where the agency is headed