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Safe Emergency Transport of Neonatal Patients

This White Paper is a product of the EMS Safety Foundation’s Safe Emergency Transport of Neonatal Patients (SETONP) phase I project that the Foundation has been working on as an interdisciplinary and global team since being funded the Medevac Foundation.

Who Cares About ICD-10?

EMS has been fighting for years to be considered part of the healthcare continuum of care, and the imposition of ICD-10 onto prehospital care is a sign the message is getting through. That’s a good thing, but it also means change. At a time when deadlines for everything from NEMSIS v3 to quality reporting metrics can seem more flexible than they should, the definitive adoption of the ...

Emerging Digital Technologies in EMS: Considerations and Strategies to Strengthen the Continuum of Care

EMS has long been connected by technology; indeed the 911 telephone system and the two-way radio were a cornerstone in the development of the first coordinated notification, dispatch and response systems. In the 1966 white paper “Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society,” communications technologies were considered an integral part of EMS. Forward think...

Signs & Symptoms of Childhood Stroke Syndromes: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Stroke Program

Stroke syndromes affect 6-13/100,000 children per year, an incidence which is comparable to childhood brain tumors.

Download the PDF: IHE`s Integrated Delivery Networks to Watch

IH Executive has named 10 organizations “Integrated Delivery Networks to Watch.” This special section of the publication’s September/October issue profiles organizations that are innovating across a variety of care types and settings to help transform the U.S. healthcare system. Each organization was named for demonstrating leadership in a unique and exciting way: partnering with loca...

Data Needed for Systematically Improving Healthcare

The rising costs of healthcare are stressing the budgets of the federal government, state and local governments, businesses, and families. Furthermore, the healthcare system is not meeting its potential in terms of safety, overall quality, and patient health outcomes. At the same time, there are examples where healthcare providers have made dramatic improvements and provide consistent...

A Road Map to Achieving Mobile Integrated Healthcare

The rapid evolution into mobile integrated healthcare-community paramedicine (MIH-CP) has been one of the most discussed issues in the EMS arena in recent years. Virtually every national EMS association has an MIH or community paramedicine committee and programs are proliferating within agencies across the country. In this publication, we bring together key resources produced by EMS W...

AHRQ Hospital Toolbox to Reduce Medicaid Readmissions

This package of tools accompanies the Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions, which offers indepth information about the unique factors driving Medicaid readmissions and a step-by-stepprocess for designing a locally relevant portfolio of strategies to reduce Medicaid readmissions. Some of the tools are adaptations of best-practice approaches to make them more relevant to the...

AHRQ Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions

Reducing readmissions is a national priority for payers, providers, and policymakers seeking to achieve Triple Aim objectives of improved health and enhanced care at lower cost. Hospital readmissions are frequent, costly, and highly variable across providers and geographic locations. A large body of evidence documents the numerous ways the transition out of the hospital and into the n...

Law Enforcement Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) Training and Individual First Aid Kits (IFAK) White Paper

Law enforcement is a dangerous occupation. Law enforcement officers (LEO) operate, often alone, in unsecured and hazardous conditions interacting with persons who may be unstable, unpredictable, and potentially deadly. LEOs are routinely involved in high risk operations such as high speed emergency response and vehicle pursuits, active violence interdiction, high risk warrant service,...

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