Building Strong Relationships Between Hospitals and EMS

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Module 4 focuses on supporting EMS administration and medical direction. It highlights the importance of relationships between hospitals and EMS agencies. Key topics covered include technology integrations between EMS and hospitals, sharing of billing information, clinical information sharing, and aggregate feedback to assess overall agency performance. The American College of Cardiology's NCDRE Reports EMS tool is highlighted as a resource for EMS agencies to access aggregate-level feedback. Another opportunity for hospitals to support EMS administration is making physicians available for online medical control consults, particularly through smartphone technologies. The goal is to facilitate appropriate decision-making and pre-notification time for time-sensitive emergency cases.

Keywords

EMS administration

medical direction

relationships

technology integrations

hospitals