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
Most effective leaders acknowledge their weaknesses, take ownership of their failings and ask for help
EMS safety has recently taken on a new sense of importance, if not urgency
Complex and life-dependent systems often fail in their reliance on experience and professionalism alone
Follow a two-pronged approach to developing a social media policy for your EMS agency
One of the most significant changes in EMS in recent years is a growing understanding about the importance of gathering data
I have been noticing that in organizations where no compelling story is being told by the leadership at the top, there is usually a dramatic, vivid and dark tale being told at the bottom
Exceptional, effective communication is essential to successful EMS leadership
This segment tackles the pros and cons of working 24-hour shifts in EMS, and whether the industry should do away with them. What do you think? Sound off in the comment section below
It may be that local communities will need to band together to create regional EMS systems that are supported by a combination of taxes, reimbursement and private pay