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
In the past few years we have seen obvious and blatantly poor judgment from folks when they post inappropriate photos, videos and commentary to the web
Old medical axiom: “You can’t find a fever unless you take a temperature”
You’d better get out your handkerchief: an old EMS tradition is fading fast
We’ve seen a range of things happen to our industry and agencies in the past 12 months
No disciplinary system can be discretionary if you hope to achieve consistency
In drug dependency testing, employers often offer diversion programs for its staff to go through
Is there an Occupy EMS movement? Yep and it has existed ever since early humans took possession of the care provided to their ill or injured in the field.
Engaging your workforce requires not figuring out how to motivate people, but identifying what their internal motivations are
EMS recruitment is an important part of any manager’s job and it is especially true in an industry like EMS where the average age of workers is over 40 years old