Michigan Selects First Due as Statewide ePCR Solution
First Due has been chosen by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as the statewide vendor for electronic patient care reporting.
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Documentation Legal Liability
Documentation of patient care is an essential component of patient care and an invaluable risk management tool from a defensive perspective.
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What Medics Want: An Analysis of Patient Follow-Up Requests Submitted by Emergency Medical Services Personnel Through a Quality Improvement Intervention
This study describes the development of a protected health information-compliant EMS feedback process and the characteristics of patient outcome requests.
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EMS Report Writing Improved by Enhanced Structured Narrative Prompts
A structured line of questioning in EMS report writing software would ease the burden of memorization on the provider, the study shows.
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The Power of the Written Word in Fire and EMS Documentation
Telling your story in your words is important, writes John K. Murphy.
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Beyond Lucid Technologies Integrates Telemedicine into MEDIVIEW Fire & EMS Charting Software
Beyond Lucid Technologies announced the incorporation of a telemedicine dataset into the MEDIVIEW electronic patient care record platform and MEDIVEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange.
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Call Me by My Name!
EMS can continuously improve to better the interaction and become culturally capable and inclusive.
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ESO to Provide Services to EMS Agencies, Fire Departments and Hospitals in VA
ESO has announced it is partnering with the Virginia EMS System to create a broad prehospital to hospital to post-hospital data ecosystem.
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Chambers County (TX) EMS Successfully Submits COVID-19 Vaccination Data to Texas Immunization Registry
Chambers County EMS in Texas is proud to announce that it has successfully completed an upload of public health COVID-19 vaccination data to the Texas…
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Eight Years Ago, Federal Government Experts Noted that Vaccine Tracking Systems Couldn’t Share Information
Our vaccine delivery machinery is groaning as jurisdictions rely on white pieces of cardstock that just beg to be lost, writes Jonathon S. Feit.
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The EMS Handoff: Document Like a Pro
Jason Haag joins the EMS Handoff crew to discuss the ins and outs of documentation from the eagle eye’s perspective to the nitty-gritty.
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EMS Lawline: Three Documentation Best Practices to Reduce Risk and Lower the Patient’s Financial Vulnerability
The bottom line is that accurate, complete and timely completion of PCRs is a legal and ethical responsibility of the EMS practitioner, writes Steve Wirth.
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