MedCity News April 27, 2025
EMS providers often treat patients without medical history, risking delays, errors, and guesswork. But new national data-sharing frameworks are starting to close that gap, bringing critical records to first responders in real time.
You arrive at the scene to find a patient struggling to breathe. They can’t speak clearly, no family is present, and no one knows their medical history. What medications are they on? Do they have life-threatening allergies? Are they diabetic, asthmatic, or recovering from surgery?
EMS providers face situations like this every day, requiring them to make split-second decisions without access to the information that hospital staff often take for granted. Until recently, that was simply the nature of prehospital care. But emerging national interoperability networks are...
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