Few buzzwords in healthcare generate as much confusion — or urgency — as interoperability. For years, the conversation centered around hospitals and EHR vendors. But a crucial stakeholder has often ...

Interoperability doesn’t start with a 9-1-1 call. It begins with a commitment to data quality, documentation integrity, and adherence to national standards across the system. For EMS, this means ...

Hospitals and physicians continue to partner in record numbers as they face regulatory pressures and learn the benefits of coordinated care. Hospitals can benefit from a partnership with physicians by ...

Emergency departments (EDs) across the country are facing unprecedented challenges. Visit numbers continue to rise — along with patient complexity — resulting in crowding and longer wait times. 1 As a ...

Emergency departments that have good data connections to emergency medical response data have a leg up on their speed-to-care rates and their ability to improve overall health outcomes. Likewise, ...

Emergency Medical Services has begun transporting patients to Rhode Island Hospital on nights and weekends in compliance with a newly enforced but long-standing state regulation. The Rhode Island ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Jon Schultz manages the EMS team for Eau Claire Fire and Rescue. He said the closure of HSHS Sacred Heart could mean many things. “We get our medical direction through Sacred ...

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - Martinsville Fire & EMS is expanding its services to help transport patients where they need to be and provide some relief to the local hospital. Martinsville Fire & EMS ...