Dawn of a New Era for JEMS: It's About 'Time'

Today, our industry is heavily data and technology driven, with CAD systems and EPCRs almost universally used. Emergency care practices are more dynamic than ever, with critical advances in patient care occurring more frequently than a monthly print publication can possibly allow. Because technology and the Web have advanced to a point that it is both instantaneous and reliable, we feel that we can better serve the EMS community by focusing our efforts on delivering JEMS content via our website www.JEMS.com and other digital platforms to allow for a more timely – and frequent – publication. So we’ve decided to advance with the times and discontinue printing JEMS in its traditional monthly magazine format, effective with our June 2018 issue, and use our web platform and mobile technology to get information to you sooner with our new digital approach. When I started at JEMS 23 years ago (in 1995), the Internet was in its infancy, having been introduced in 1991. It was a new phenomenon. It was clunky in its infancy and many thought it was just for national security purposes. Boy were they wrong. Back in 1995, JEMS received almost all of its articles and queries via the mail. We used to have to laboriously transfer written articles and documents to text to place in the magazine. Even though we had a Web page in the mid-1990s, it was not easy to upload documents and videos. JEMS and all of our newsletters were only available in print and it took weeks for international subsc...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news