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AI takes care of the small but time-consuming stuff, giving responders more space to focus on what really matters: providing life-saving care to patients.
AI takes care of the small but time-consuming stuff, giving responders more space to focus on what really matters: providing life-saving care to patients.
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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.
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.
Using widely available scanning software, a security researcher in Spain recently found several thousand industrial vehicles, including ambulances, with unsecured communications hubs.
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.