Emergency Medical Services Information Systems

Emergency medical services systems.

Overall, our view of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is too constrained and limits services that could be provided. Some time ago, a friend remarked that EMS was unrelated to Disaster Medicine and, in fact, advised that the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and this journal (PDM) needed to concentrate either on Disaster Medicine OR EMS. More recently, this same frie...

Performance Information Systems to Improve Rural Mobile Emergency Medical Services

This paper analyzes end-to-end performance of EMS providers. Continually under pressure to reduce disabilities and fatalities, EMS providers need timely and accurate incident related information within the critical “golden hour” of emergency response, especially in rural areas where approximately 60% of all vehicle fatalities occur. In this study, a multi-method analysis was conducted around an...

Patient restraint in emergency medical services systems.

Failing emergency medical services.

Failing emergency medical services To the Editor: I refer to the scientific letter entitled ‘Emergency centres lack defibrillator knowledge’.1 I am a recently retired UK accident and emergency consultant who is now attempting to plough back knowledge gained in the discipline of emergency medicine (EM) and trauma to peripheral hospitals in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) under the umbre...

Emergency medical services: the frontier in health information exchange.

Emergency medical service (EMS) providers routinely lack even basic access to pre-existing patient information when delivering patient care in the field. Improving access to pre-existing patient information could improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care that they can deliver. EMS providers in Indianapolis use an electronic record to document their care. In order to provide access to p...