Nearly 800,000 strokes happen in the United States each year.[1] 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBrent Myers, MD, worked at Wake County EMS in Raleigh, NC, for more than a decade. and has 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.
Read MoreRecently, a number of headlines have claimed that the mobile-enabled car service company, Uber, now offers faster service than an ambulance.
Read MoreAs healthcare moves toward a value-based payment system, the ambulance service industry is being pushed to define its own value-based metrics within the context of an integrated healthcare system.
Read MoreTelemedicine is making big headlines with predictions that one in six doctors visits in US and Canada will be virtual in 2014. Telemedicine could save US employers as much as $6 billion every year. Some predict telemedicine revenues will top $13 billion in the next four years.
Read MoreEarlier this year, the Commonwealth Fund compared the US healthcare system with 10 other countries using measures such as equity, quality, efficiency, and access. The US ranked last in 5 out of 12 categories and last overall.
Read MoreThe Advanced Development for Africa released a report, “Scaling Up Mobile Health: Elements Necessary for the Successful Scale Up of mHealth in Developing Countries,” which details the work of nine projects that are deploying mobile technology to achieve specific global health goals.
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