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
Without a standard, objective-based assessment of patient sobriety levels, situations may arise that test the limits of EMS personnel
Discuss these ambulance crash characteristics with your department’s emergency vehicle operators
Rideshare services are offering same day service, 24/7 availability and provider billing
Julie Lahr, who has been in EMS for 16 years, said she started thinking outside the box after realizing the impact community paramedics and mental health specialists could make in the field
Top takeaways for prehospital care of diabetic patients after filtering 2.5 million EMS encounters in the EMS Index
Our co-hosts respond to a listener’s email regarding where medical marijuana fits into public safety, especially EMS
Considerations for planning interdisciplinary training and staging include properly equipping EMS providers and developing a common lexicon
Regardless of title, an EMS company officer culture focuses on accountability, supervision, structure and crew resource management
Jay Fitch discusses EMS trends, from finding value in data, to the EMS Agenda 2050 project, that will highlight the retreat-like conference in Phoenix