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MARVLIS 4.5 Now Available Featuring Significant New Features and Updates Continue reading →

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/bcs-releases-marvlis-version-4-5/

Not to give any details of the factual-based story away, I see many parallels between the implementation of sabermetrics in baseball and system status management in EMS. Continue reading →

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/minority-report-or-moneyball/

I work regularly with agencies that are looking to improve aspects of their operations. Some casual readers may be surprised to know that the focus of those discussions is not always about cuttin...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2021/03/18/improving-ems-deployment-performance/

The “Leverage Real-Time Data for Improved Ambulance Response Times” article that Zoll posted on their blog site did a good job of explaining response times and even the benefits of System Sta...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/more-reasons-to-support-dynamic-deployment/

I recently had two articles published by EMS1 as a couple of “mythbusting primers” on the topic of dynamic deployment. The articles were Dynamic deployment: 5 persistent myths busted and ...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/toward-a-better-understanding-of-dynamic-deployment/

We always hear that EMS is still a relatively new discipline. And in the scheme of medicine, or even public safety, that is certainly true. But we shouldn’t let the fact of its youth keep us f...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/we-need-some-new-stories/

In our recently published book, “Dynamic Deployment: A Primer for EMS“, John Brophy and I established a dichotomy between the standards of static deployment and dynamic deployment in the ve...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/static-v-dynamic-a-continuum-of-cost/

There is plenty of talk about “evidence-based procedures” in EMS lately. Well, today I read an interesting article that shows a link between being busier and better patient outcomes. Oka...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/could-busier-be-better/

Ideas often take time to saturate a market. Even if the idea is generally recognized as a good one, complete with compelling evidence, change can still take time.  As a current example, how ma...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/is-ssm-still-a-bad-idea/

Several months ago, Rob Lawrence of the Richmond Ambulance Authority started a thread on the High Performance EMS Group of LinkedIn by asking “So what does the phrase ‘High Performance EMS�...

https://hpems.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/the-role-of-response-time-in-ems-performance/