Building Strong Relationships Between Hospitals and EMS

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Video Summary

Module 4 of this video series focuses on supporting EMS administration and medical direction. It highlights the importance of relationships between hospitals and EMS agencies. The video summarizes the previous modules, which covered topics like the impact of different organizations within an EMS system, ways hospitals can support EMS field crews, and technology integration. It emphasizes the shared interests of keeping field crews happy, educated, and efficient. EMS administration and medical direction are particularly interested in technology integrations, sharing billing information, and receiving aggregate feedback on agency performance. The video also mentions a tool called NCDRE Reports EMS that simplifies feedback for EMS agencies. It concludes by discussing the availability of physicians for online medical control consults to make appropriate decisions and give pre-notification to destination hospitals. No credits are mentioned. The video can be accessed at acc.org/eReportsEMS.

Keywords

EMS administration

medical direction

hospital-EMS agency relationships

technology integration

NCDRE Reports EMS