Dynamic System Status Management
System Status Management (SSM) is the fluid deployment of ambulances based on the hour-of-the-day and day-of-the-week in order to match supply, defined as Unit Hours of Utilization (UHU), with expected...
View ArticleGIS for EMS
Both acronyms (GIS and EMS) represent not just technologies, but fields of study and service that have very old roots even though each can trace their modern form to research starting in the 1960s....
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EMS in the Cloud
According to the Gartner Hype Cycle for 2010, “Cloud Computing” and “Cloud/Web Platforms” have reached the infamous “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and are already sliding down like a fog into the...
View ArticleWhat Twitter, and These EMS Influencers, Mean to Me
The thing I love most about conferences is the unexpected things I learn. Like everyone else, I attend certain sessions on topics I need to know more about, but in-between these official talks there...
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Impressions of the Ferno iN/X
I’m sure that the interested audience for the new Ferno iN/X “power stretcher†was smaller at FDIC 2014 than it would have been if it were released in time for the EMS Today conference earlier...
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Is ‘SSM’ Still a ‘Bad Idea’?
Ideas often take time to saturate a market. Even if the idea is generally recognized as a good one, complete with compelling evidence, change can still take time.  As a current example, how many...
View ArticleStatic v. Dynamic: A Continuum of Cost
In our recently published book, “Dynamic Deployment: A Primer for EMS“, John Brophy and I established a dichotomy between the standards of static deployment and dynamic deployment in the very first...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts from EMS World Expo 2014
I love Nashville, so one of the highlights from my trip to EMS World Expo was eating at Jack’s BBQ on Broadway, but there was also plenty more to be excited about at the actual show held in the...
View ArticleFore Thoughts of EMS Today 2015
For the last few years I have written my initial impressions of conferences in blog posts shortly after, or sometimes even during, a conference. The post “Quick Thoughts from the EMS Today 2012...
View ArticleWhat is CAEMS and Why Should I Care?
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...
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