Part of the recognition of EMS professionals as healthcare professionals has come out of the push towards more evidence-based approaches to EMS care.
“You can’t be recognized as a player in healthcare today if you’re aren’t based in sound science,” said Ed Racht, MD, Chief Medical Officer at AMR. “Evidence-based EMS and the accountability to be evidence-based is a dramatic change.”
A third big change, Racht pointed to, is a shift towards more sophisticated performance metrics for EMS.