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.
Real-time data, AI-powered insights and improved interoperability are helping EMS agencies reduce fragmentation, enhance situational awareness and improve responder safety
SPOTLIGHT ON AI
Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore on recognizing EMS as an essential service with the funding and career pathways to match
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
Three ways to maintain balance during difficult times and not exacerbate the problem
Look to the factors impacting EMS revenues – logistics, technology and resource matching – to manage deliverables
Through sheer force of will by first responders, healthcare workers and the city as a whole, the COVID-19 battle is winding down, but leaves scars
“For the first time in my career, the key to keeping my patients and paramedics safe was to keep them isolated”
Funding a system of readiness through telehealth, treatment and alternative destination reimbursement for EMS
Beleaguered EMTs can use self-reflection and distance to escape bad partners or agencies
Leaders from Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service and Snohomish County Fire District detail how they’re monitoring the COVID-19 surge and preparing for the worst-case scenario
Risk management expert Gordon Graham details how to combat the five reasons mistakes are made in public safety
Chief Steve Pegram details the possible financial impacts facing fire and EMS departments as well as the goals of the IAFC’s Economic Task Force