Two weeks ago, we started a Community of Practice to discuss EMS Deployment. The larger issue of deploying resources is all about efficiency and effectiveness in care, those are also the aims of any High Performance EMS group. However, that message is too often confused with meaning simply “better, faster, cheaper”, when in practice it must be rooted in “doing what is best for the patient” in order to be anything of lasting value.
In the following episode of ‘Word on the Street’, an EMSWorld podcast hosted by Rob Lawrence, representatives of the Coalition of Advanced Emergency Medical Systems (CAEMS) chat about the professional association and exactly what makes EMS systems “high-performance.” Give it a listen (or even download it) here: http://www.emsworld.com/podcast/11327832/word-on-the-street-coalition-of-advanced-emergency-medical-systems.
