In an extraordinary development, Fierce Healthcare is reporting numerous articles where reimbursement is being cut off to hospitals for Non-Emergency visits to their Emergency Departments. Now the primary solution lies in determining if calls are true emergencies (emergent) or non-emergencies (non-emergent) and qualifying those calls. The best way to do that in a tested and […]
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OK, I’ll say it. Health is not skin deep. It’s what’s inside that counts too, sometimes much much more. Recently a paramedic friend in Texas told me about a day where they took their DREAMS Ambulance to a shopping center to provide open public testing or free health screening as a public service to his […]
By Jim Christensen of Hewlett Packard In the back of an ambulance, every second counts. So imagine that as paramedics race down the street, they can whip out a tablet to help analyze symptoms while a physician at the hospital can help give virtual triage. Touch and tablet technologies are paving the way for some […]
EMS system to shift low-priority calls – Patients will talk with nurse, may avoid ambulance, ER Hoping to ease overcrowded emergency rooms and trim ambulance runs, Louisville Metro EMS is launching a program to screen low-priority 911 calls and divert some patients from hospitals to more appropriate care. Starting Monday, dispatchers will turn a small […]