Telemedicine
Often, transportation is a barrier to receiving healthcare, which means EMS become that transportation even when the medical problem itself is non-urgent. Telemedicine, using technology to connect patients to healthcare practitioners remotely, can be used to triage patients, decreasing non-emergent ambulance transports, or to enable a higher level of care when access or distance prevent physical assessment.
Engaging payers, the medical director, administrators and field providers was key to MedStar鈥檚 successful telehealth implementation
鈥淚nstead of responding to the majority of 999 calls we receive every day, we want to flip that so we only go to those patients who really, really need a double staffed paramedic emergency ambulance quickly.鈥�
Blending technology and human-driven care to navigate language barriers and make the scene safer
Applying global solutions and the CMS ET3 model to EMS鈥檚 low acuity patient population with alternative destination transport
Through the Chronic Care Management Program, patients are given tablets, blood pressure monitors pulse oximeters and scales for free
Improve access to care and triage less urgent calls for more efficient use of healthcare resources
Communication is critical to ensure that emergency department resources are available and ready for your patient
With the advent of new technology come questions about how it should be regulated to ensure that patients receive the same quality of care
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Augmented reality, with heads-up display devices and conductive swath devices, has the potential to improve patient assessment and care
Corey Showers鈥� stroke symptoms were recognized by a fellow firefighter and confirmed by a remote neurologist using a telemedicine robot
EMS medical directors discuss integrated health care programs to serve frequent 911 callers at Gathering of Eagles
Networked video technology is making it increasingly easy to connect patients at rural hospitals and incident scenes with specialist physicians
More than just cameras, telemedicine 鈥榗arts鈥� connect rural areas to doctors
From the NIH to the Cincinnati stroke scale, RACE or the Los Angeles Motor Score, stroke scales are a work in progress
MedEx is the first in the country to implement the telemedicine technology on ambulances
How will telemedicine鈥檚 growing popularity impact ground and air ambulance transports in rural areas?