Critical Care Documentation: Why It’s Different and How It Impacts Patient Care
By embracing better tools and smarter approaches, agencies can reduce the strain on their teams and give their patients the most seamless, high-quality care possible.
Bringing Patient Data to the Frontlines: Why Interoperability Must Include EMS
EMS providers often treat patients without medical history, risking delays, errors, and guesswork. But new national data-sharing frameworks are starting to close that gap, bringing critical records to first responders in real time.
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The Healthcare Payments Industry Has a Perception Problem
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
CMS reveals new payment model for emergency ambulance services
Through the Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport model, CMS will pay ambulance suppliers and providers to transport Medicare beneficiaries to an alternative location (like an urgent care clinic) and to provide treatment in place with a practitioner.
Belatedly, Trump declares opioid crisis a “national emergency”
President Donald Trump has officially called the opioid epidemic a national emergency. The announcement comes just days after HHS Secretary Tom Price downplayed the need to do so.
Boston-based company gets FDA clearance for noninvasive monitor aimed to help trauma-care clinicians treat patients in shock
Reflectance Medical, Inc. has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a noninvasive device that could help clinicians determine whether a patient is in shock or pre-shock or has tissue acidosis in real time at the point of injury or care. It’s the only noninvasive pHm monitoring device, and aims to save providers money by reducing ICU […]