A Lakewood-based ambulance service has become one of a handful in the state to start using real-time electronic data collection for patient-care reports while on the road, the company told the Asbury Park Press.
About four months ago, Alert Ambulance Services Inc. installed software in its 50-some ambulances that allows EMT crews en route to an emergency to process a patient’s medical background information gathered by the dispatcher. Before, the responders were responsible for collecting such information themselves by paper and pen after arriving.
“The big thing it does is save time,” Alert’s IT director Jack Trovato said. “And it’s far more accurate.”
“When a call comes into our dispatch system, the information is put into a database,” he added. “Then when the crew goes out, all it needs to do is hit a button and all of it is there” on a computers in the ambulance.
Alert is based in Lakewood but services about six counties, including Ocean and Monmouth. Its main clients are hospitals and nursing homes that might have patient emergencies, Trovato said.
(Source: Asbury Park Press)
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Very interesting. Monoc (MICU trucks at least) have had this software in their trucks for several years. Whether they use it or not is another story….
Are they talking about GPS systems similar to what F.D.N.Y. has?
No F.B., GPS systems in the busses are old, and are already used in Ambulances including Hatzalah. It transmits the call location onto the screen etc.