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Disruptive Technologies in EMS
New technologies, including advances in remote monitoring systems, offer the promise of transforming the delivery of EMS, impacting everything from dispatch to treatment and diagnosis in the prehospital setting and moving EMS toward a more predictive, rather than reactive, response model.
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Nearly 800,000 strokes happen in the United States each year. Like heart attacks, strokes are time-sensitive emergencies. Nearly two million neurons are at risk of permanent damage for every minute that elapses until the blocked artery is opened up and circulation is restored, meaning “time is brain” during a stroke. At Memorial Healthcare System in South Florida, a team of physicians and EMS professionals have transformed stroke care and more than halved the median door-to-needle time for the administration of IV tPA from 82 to 34 minutes from 2014 to Q1 of 2016.
Results of a recent study suggest that advanced automatic crash notification (AACN) technology, which sends telemetry data in the event of a motor vehicle accident, can be used to accurately predict the injury severity of vehicle occupants.
Last May, Brent Myers, MD, joined Evolution Health, a Dallas-based, national integrated medical practice, as the chief medical officer and executive vice president for medical operations, and AMR, the nation’s largest ambulance service, as an associate chief medical officer. Before making this move, Myers had been widely recognized for his work to build a mobile integrated healthcare program there to offer in-home care, care referrals and a better system for treating people with mental illness.
The U.S. healthcare system has been criticized as fragmented, inefficient and costly. But Eric Beck, DO, MPH, president and CEO of Evolution Health in Dallas, and his staff are proving it doesn’t have to be. They’re building new models of team-based delivery and processes that offer patients and providers a better experience. And they’re making healthcare more efficient and effective.