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 ...

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, ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — First responders are feeling pressure as many report that a rise in patients is pushing EMS and hospital systems to the edge amidst staffing shortages, hospital diverts, and ...

(TNS) — When emergency medical workers are inbound to a hospital with a patient, seconds count. Any delay in communication, such as an EMS crew being too far from a radio tower, can result in a slower ...