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Houston EMS gets to ‘mobile integrated healthcare’ with telemedicine triage
The program outfits EMTs with 4G-enabled tablets that connect to 9-1-1 services, the University of Texas Health Science Center, a nurse help line, a network of primary care clinics (for the purpose of getting people into medical homes) and even to a taxi service for transportation.
NEMT Partner Guide: Why Payers and Providers Should Choose MediDrive’s TMS
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
Study: Ambulance diversions may temporarily relieve ER overcrowding
After Massachusetts banned ambulance diversions in 2009, waiting times for patients admitted to the hospital fell by 10.4 percent at nine hospitals in the Boston area.
Report: Ambulances vulnerable to hackers
Using widely available scanning software, a security researcher in Spain recently found several thousand industrial vehicles, including ambulances, with unsecured communications hubs.
Is diverting ambulances with heart attack patients away from crowded ERs a death sentence?
Heart-attack patients whose ambulances had been diverted to an ER farther away were nearly 10 percent more likely to be dead one year later than those whose ambulances were not diverted.