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.
As artificial intelligence advances from simple automation to autonomous systems, EMS agencies must learn how to adopt the technology responsibly without sacrificing accountability, ethics or patient care
SPOTLIGHT ON AI
At NEMSMA’s leadership conference, Dr. Brent Myers makes the case that waiting for federal guidance is a losing strategy — and local governance is the only path forward.
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
An Alabama recruit school is under investigation after video emerges of a staged EMS response in a bathroom
The patient care report needs to clearly and consistently demonstrate that patients received good patient care
This phrase has an amazing ability to get people in the middle of an angry rant to stop, listen, and reframe their argument
The decisions we make between calls might be just as critical, in the long run, as the treatment decisions we make during calls
Paramedic chiefs and EMS leaders need to set shift length based on call demand, available personnel, equipment supply and time on task
As a leader, you have a responsibility to calm the turbulence
Exploring how data informs change, improves clinical outcomes and drives leadership decisions
Eliminate bias and develop a program that provides optimal clinical, operational and financial performance