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Webinar | HHS Roadmap for Cybersecurity in Health Care
On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (IEA) will host a webinar on healthcare sector cybersecurity from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST. HHS IEA stated speakers will discuss “the Department’s roadmap for cybersecurity in health care and answer questions on how HHS can help protect patient safety, secure our hospitals, and improve cyber resiliency in health care.”
HHS IEA indicated the event will feature the following speakers:
- HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm; and
- Speakers from the Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
Registration for the event can be found at: Webinar Registration.
National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) Public Meeting on November 30, 2023
The next public meeting of the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) will be held virtually on Thursday, November 30, 2023, from 12:30 to 4:00 p.m. ET. Advanced registration is required. To register for the webinar and for additional meeting information, visit the NBSB public meeting page. We encourage you to share this engagement opportunity broadly across your network.
The NBSB will discuss and vote on two set of recommendations related to COVID-19 pandemic lessons; Project NextGen vaccine and therapeutic products, priorities for future medical countermeasure attributes as requested by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; and disaster preparedness training. Drafts of the recommendations for public review will be on the NBSB webpage as soon as they are available.
Anyone may submit questions or comments to the board members by email to (NBSB@hhs.gov) ahead of the meeting. If time allows, the NBSB board members will address as many written comments as possible. Requests to speak during the public meeting should be sent to (NBSB@hhs.gov) by 5:00pm ET on November 23, 2023. Please provide the speaker’s full name, organization, and a full explanation of the intended topic. Presentations that contain material with a commercial bias, advertising, marketing, or solicitations will not be allowed. All meeting materials will be made publicly available on the NBSB public meeting page. For additional information or questions about this event, please contact (NBSB@hhs.gov).
American Sign Language translation and Communication Access Real-Time Translation will be provided during the meeting.
NCSL Podcast | Emergency Medicine in Rural America
Emergency Medicine in Rural America | OAS Episode 198
NOVEMBER 19TH, 2023 | 36:56 | E198
EPISODE SUMMARY
Two experts in emergency medical services joined the podcast to discuss a variety of challenges to providing care in rural areas, including long waits for ambulances and a serious workforce shortage. They also talked about the role of legislatures in addressing EMS needs.
EPISODE NOTES
Emergency medical services face significant challenges in rural America. Just one is the time it takes to summon an ambulance. While most people living in urban and suburban areas expect an ambulance to show up within minutes of making a 911 call, the situation is very different for about 4.5 million Americans who live in ambulance deserts, according to a nation study conducted by Maine Rural Health Research Center and the Rural Health Research & Policy Centers. Those folks can expect to wait 25 minutes or more for emergency services to arrive.
We sat down with two experts on the subject — Dia Gainor, executive director of National Association of State EMS Officials, and Davis Patterson, director of the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center at University of Washington—to discuss that and other challenges to EMS in rural areas. Other issues they discussed included the severe workforce challenges in staffing rural EMS services, the role of legislatures in addressing rural EMS needs and the promise of community paramedicine in addressing both emergency and nonemergency care in rural areas.
RESOURCES
- Ambulance Deserts: Addressing Geographic Disparities in the Provision of Ambulance Services, Rural Health Research Gateway (May 2023)
- Beyond 911: Expanding the Primary Care Role of First Responders through Community Paramedicine
- Community Paramedicine: Connecting Patients to Care and Reducing Costs
- EMS Legislative Database
- The EMS and Community Paramedic Workforces Respond to COVID-19, WWAMI Rural Health Research Center (June 2023)
- The National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials
- State Actions To Address EMS Workforce Shortages
- You might need an ambulance, but your state may not see it as ‘essential,’ Stateline (September 2023)
- WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
EMS.gov | Input Requested: EMS Education Agenda 2050
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CISA | Preventing Workplace Violence Infographic
The Preventing Workplace Violence: Security Awareness Considerations Infographic is a new CISA product designed for critical infrastructure leaders, human resources personnel, managers, and workers of any level. The infographic provides actionable recommendations and resources intended to prevent and mitigate workplace violence by cultivating a culture of awareness and support in the workplace.
For questions regarding this infographic, please email central@cisa.gov.
Register Now: FICEMS Meeting on December 6
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Prodigy Interview: Shawn Baird on GAPBAC
Recorded November 2023
Outside the US Capitol during 2023 Stars of Life, Prodigy’s Rob Lawrence caught up with American Ambulance Association Immediate Past President Shawn Baird. Shawn shared next steps following the last meeting of the Ground Ambulance Patient and Billing Advisory Committee.
Crash Responder Safety Week, November 13–17, 2023
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National EMS Advisory Council Meeting November 15-16, 2023
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FICEMS DEIA Statement Now Available
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Prehospital Guidelines Consortium | EMS Research Reading List Submissions
The Prehospital Guidelines Consortium is collaborating with the National Registry of EMTs to continually identify current scientific literature to incorporate into certification activities. We seek input from the EMS community on peer-reviewed scientific articles (e.g., research studies, systematic reviews, or narrative review articles) published in 2021-2023 that can assist in improving the knowledge of EMS professionals regarding the most current science in EMS medicine.
Relevance to clinical care or operations within EMS medicine is requisite, and preference will be given to peer-reviewed literature, including reports of landmark clinical trials, systematic reviews of the literature, and scientific review articles.
The Prehospital Guidelines Consortium is separately engaging in an ongoing systematic review of published prehospital evidence-based guidelines (EBGs) as a related component of this effort. EBG-related publications may also be submitted to supplement the systematic search already in progress.
10/23 | US DOT Allies in Action Pedestrian Safety Month Webinar
In honor of Pedestrian Safety Month throughout October, the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary will host a webinar to highlight USDOT and National Roadway Safety Strategy Allies in Action efforts and resources to forward pedestrian safety.
We hope you can join us!
Event: U.S. Department of Transportation Allies in Action Pedestrian Safety Month Webinar
When: Monday, October 23, 2023, from 1-2:30 p.m. ET
Where: Via Zoom (see registration link below)
Audience: Open to the public
Registration Link: Register now
Additional information on 2023 Pedestrian Safety Month and upcoming events can be found here and on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website.
CoAEMSP Accepting Applications for Site Visitors
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NAEMSP | Rest in Peace E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, FAEMS
NAEMSP is deeply saddened by the news that E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, FAEMS has passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Over the past two decades, Brooke has dedicated her career to the advancement of prehospital care, from spending time in the field as a paramedic to serving on the NAEMSP Board of Directors and joining her alma mater, the University of Buffalo, as a tenured professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Said NAEMSP President José G Cabañas MD, MPH, FAEMS: “We pay tribute to the extraordinary legacy of Dr. Brooke Lerner. Her service to our profession and NAEMSP was marked by honor and distinction, including the mentorship of countless clinicians devoted to building effective prehospital systems of care. Brooke’s transformative work played a pivotal role in advancing trauma and pediatric emergency care, leaving behind a body of work that was instrumental in enhancing prehospital care standards. May her enduring legacy serve as an inspiration to all of us, reminding us of the profound impact one person’s selfless dedication can have in elevating the practice of EMS medicine.”
Throughout her career, Brooke focused on research in a subspecialty with a relatively small literature base, authoring over 135 peer-reviewed publications and completing many federally funded grants to conduct EMS research. Much of her research addressed acute injury care and field/disaster triage, and she led the current national guideline for mass casualty triage.
Brooke also dedicated much of her time to pediatric emergency care, especially through the federally funded Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), where she led the organization’s only prehospital node and served on its Executive Committee.
Following her diagnosis, Brooke worked with NAEMSP and the GMR Foundation to establish the E. Brooke Lerner Research Fund with the goal of supporting early career EMS researchers. “I’ve spent my career on improving prehospital care, and I wanted to leave something behind to keep that legacy moving forward,” Brooke said, speaking of the fund shortly after its creation.
In 2013, Brooke received NAEMSP’s Keith Neely Award, and ten years later, she was recognized with the Ronald D. Stewart Award for her illustrious career in EMS. It would be impossible to recount all the invaluable contributions to emergency medical services made by Brooke Lerner, and more impossible still to describe the impact she made on each person she met. NAEMSP will remember Brooke with the utmost admiration and is profoundly grateful for everything she has done to advance EMS.
NHTSA | Updated Ground Ambulance Crash Safety Materials Available
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Prehospital Blood Transfusion Initiative
Press Release from the Prehospital Blood Transfusion Initiative Coalition
PREHOSPITAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION INITIATIVE COALITION BEING FORMED
Contact:
Bill Skillman
bskillman@veli.co
781 315 7537
In cities, towns and rural communities across the US people are dying unnecessarily from severe bleeding arising from limited supply of blood products and lack of blood transfusions after injury or other causes of hemorrhagic shock. Bleeding to death from uncontrolled hemorrhage remains the leading cause of preventable deaths among victims of trauma with nearly half of these patients dying in the prehospital setting. Unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases, blood products are not available on emergency medical response vehicles because of reimbursement limitations and local regulations which vary by state.
The Prehospital Blood Transfusion Initiative Coalition (PHBTIC) is being established to address these problems. “A growing number of ground and air medical EMS programs have successfully initiated blood programs in recent years, but more needs to be done to ensure patients in the U.S. who need prehospital transfusion are able to receive it, regardless of where they live” notes John Holcomb, MD, Professor of Surgery at University of Alabama at Birmingham, an internationally renowned trauma surgeon and expert on civilian and military hemorrhage control and resuscitation. The Coalition, led by a steering committee, is building a multi-disciplinary, collaborative initiative to advance four pillars of focused activity to promote prehospital blood transfusion programs:
- Establish reimbursement for blood products transfused in the prehospital setting.
- EMS scope-of-practice allowing the initiation of prehospital blood products in states where it currently is not allowed.
- Strategic preparedness for homeland defense and mass casualties.
- Outreach and education, including regulatory, protocols, and best practices for programs based on experiences of agencies currently conducting programs.
“Our group represents a diverse community of prehospital and hospital-based medical professionals, as well as industry, blood collection, and government partners, whose focus is on improving outcomes of all patients suffering hemorrhagic shock in a data-driven fashion” say Eric Bank, LP, NRP, Assistant Chief of EMS HCESD 48 Fire-EMS and Randi Schaefer, DNP, RN, Clinical Consultant and Scientific Advisor.
The Steering Committee has already reached out to national stakeholder organizations in the EMS, trauma, blood and industry communities and are soliciting others with an interest in ensuring blood products are available in all emergency settings to join the Coalition. They will be scheduling an initial meeting of the Coalition in the coming weeks. Those interested are encouraged to contact Jon R Krohmer, MD at jrkrohmer@gmail.com
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Nominations Open for the Vanguard Awards & EMS Next! 🏆🚑
Celebrate EMS Excellence
Nominations are Open Now for Vanguard & EMSNext Awards
Vanguard and EMS Next honorees will be recognized at the American Ambulance Association Annual Conference & Trade Show, as well as on the AAA website and social media platforms. Winners will also receive complimentary registration to the AAA Annual Conference & Trade Show.
2024 AAA Annual Conference & Trade Show
Gaylord Opryland
April 22–24, 2024
Nashville, TN
Nominations close January 1, 2024.
However, capacity is limited, so early submission is encouraged.
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Clarion Ledger | Ambulance ‘response times’ miss the big picture: health outcomes
Congratulations to the board of the Mississippi Ambulance Alliance on the publication of their insightful op-ed in the Clarion Ledger.
“Response Times” are the loudest complaint, both locally and around the country — regardless of whether a private or public ambulance is responding. Everyone is, understandably, mad the ambulance isn’t right here, right now. And in many if not most instances, the ambulance providers agree — they want to be on scene sooner.
But that system is showing its fragility everywhere.
NAEMSP | Board Nominations Open
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