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The articles below were all originally printed in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) and also published on JEMS.com.

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Wireless Broadband Lives!
July 2004 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services

Fast, secure, wide area, wireless broadband is finally starting to arrive in the United States. The arrival of this fast connectivity will spur renewed growth in ‘mobile enterprise’ type technologies, especially vertical markets with far flung personnel and connectivity needs such as EMS.

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Copter Box
July 2004 Product Review in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services

I recently saw a ‘CopterBox’ demonstration and immediately saw the usefulness this device could offer the public safety and emergency management markets for simple, cost effective aerial supplying of personnel in remote or disaster stricken areas. CopterBox is the ideal delivery system to provide supplies to people trapped by flood waters or those stranded by snow or ice.

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Mesh Networks
June 2004 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services

Mesh networks are data and voice networks built primarily from off the shelf wireless computer networking equipment. The idea goes back to research started in the mid 1990s that was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Department of Defense to allow for faster, more reliable, and better coverage for voice and data communications on the battlefield.

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Network Eyes
May 2004 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

How would you like to be able to look at any of your agencies truck bays, perhaps the ED docks, personnel parking lots, or other locations close to your operations facilities?  Technology has made this a relatively easy and inexpensive process to carry out using web cameras (webcams).  Many colleges and small town police departments are adding video capability using webcam products rather than expensive, traditional closed circuit television (CCTV) based systems.  Webcams aren’t as capable as their CCTV cousins, but they can perform simple observation tasks very well.

 

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User Authorization:  Who's Who?
April 2004 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

One of the most time consuming and frustrating tasks for an IT manager or database administrator, not to mention that it is an area with security exposure, is user password maintenance and administration of user permissions on the network and data system.

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Software Evaluation
March 2004 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

As most people in the EMS industry recognize, EMS is becoming a data driven business.  There are a number of initiatives underway to define various aspects of what data points EMS data systems should include.  This data, once collected, can be utilized for operational review, trending, mapping, quality assurance and improvement, and billing for reimbursement at the local level.

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Don't Let Anyone Take You "Phishing"
February 2004 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

Internet scammers, hackers, identity thieves, and other online deviants have developed sophisticated and dangerous new schemes to get unsuspecting people to reveal their confidential personal and financial information.

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Bio-Surveillance Systems
January 2004 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

The prospect of biological terrorism within the United States has been an issue of growing concern for the past decade in military and public health circles and was brought into the public view as a result of the terror attacks in the fall of 2001.  It is widely believed that by applying various statistical modeling techniques to data such as emergency department admissions records, school absence reports, pharmacy sales of cold and flu medications, and many other data points, early recognition of biological events can be made.

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Web-Based Versus Client/Server Data Systems
December 2003 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

This month I want to take a look at two competing models of database systems and give a brief overview of the pros and cons of each.  The models I refer to are the newer web-based data collection systems and the more traditional client/server data collection systems.

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Computer, Data Applications, and Data Analysis Competence
November 2003 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

I encounter with uncomfortable frequency management level personnel in public safety circles that have little or no understanding with what the private sector business world considers "must have" knowledge for managers and administrative personnel; that is, basic understanding and competence of numerical and statistical analysis tools like the desktop standard of Microsoft Excel and basic understanding of database principles and data analysis using desktop standard software like Microsoft Access.

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Homeland Security Mistake
October 2003 Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

With hundreds of millions of Department of Homeland Security dollars starting to pour into state and local coffers for hundreds of different equipment needs and training projects aimed at improving our national readiness for attack or disaster, I believe we've overlooked the big picture:  communications.  Communications is everything.

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Assistive Technologies for the Elderly and Disabled
September 2003
Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

EMS and home health care personnel are going to soon start to see high tech products in the homes of elderly and disabled patients and clients.  Several technology companies including Intel, Honeywell, Raytheon, Microsoft, and many others are working with research universities such as MIT to develop unobtrusive technologies that can assist people in living independently longer while providing real time information on their activities and health status that can be monitored by health care professionals or family members.

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Global Positioning System & EMS
August 2003
Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

A national asset that can be quite useful in conjunction with a GIS system for response modeling and for many other public safety applications is global positioning system (GPS).

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Geographical Information Systems in EMS
July 2003
Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

If you aren't familiar with Geographical Information Systems (GIS), you should take a look at what GIS can offer you as an EMS manager.  GIS, when combined with a database that stores response information, can show you in a matter of seconds things that are hard to conceptualize.

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Emergency Messaging & Contingency Communications

June 2003
Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

There has been a lot of talk since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, about the need for a single, more unified protocol communications system that could reach a myriad of devices (e.g., weather radios, e-mail, voice call systems, pagers, cellular phones, highway message signs, etc.) to warn people of terrorist events and provide information on weather emergencies, hazardous materials incidents, Amber Alert events and other important messages that directly impact personal or public safety.

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Devices & Methodologies for Capturing Data

May 2003
Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

I believe we're approaching an interesting era in data capture in EMS.  All services capture data in some form or fashion - most on paper, some electronically.  As demands for electronic filing and the need to improve and expedite collections mount, more and more EMS systems will move toward creating or joining data systems.

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Email Basics & Options Important to EMS
April 2003
Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

What we now know as email was an original objective of the Internet, known in the late 1960s and early '70s as ARPANet ([Defense] Advances Research Projects Agency Network).

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Are You Headed For Data Disaster?
December 2002
Article in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

If your EMS agency stores patient and response information in an electronic data system, it is highly likely that your data can be easily lost, stolen, or misused.  If your data is contained on more than just a single, non-networked PC, the potential for loss or misappropriation of your data is exponentially larger.

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Email / Voice Mail Safety & Courtesy Tip

Use good email etiquette and don't turn on a "vacation" or "out of office until" message in your email system, especially if you're a member of any email lists or groups.

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