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
EMS leaders respond to Star Tribune report of administering ketamine to agitated, restrained patients in Minneapolis
Do your part to limit the spread of infectious disease and hospital-acquired infections by improving your hand hygiene practices
Employee turnover costs money and morale points, so how can organizations raise retention levels among workers?
Basic versus advanced EMS training and care continue to evolve
Adopting clinical data registries to measure performance will allow EMS to integrate fully with systems of care
Improving patient outcomes, hospital relations and the community narrative with data analysis
Paramedic chiefs and field providers have much to learn from the FBI’s ongoing summary and analysis of active shooter incidents
Bruce Moeller offers strategies for tackling the aging population, dubbed the “silver tsunami,” at Fire-Rescue Med 2018
A section chief from St. Louis considers the scope and impact of opioid response on EMS providers and the role they play in combating the crisis