Disruption Is on the Horizon, Are You Ready?

Conclusion
As I end this issue of EMSOLOGY, I glimpse into our future and see that the EMS and healthcare landscape looks massively different:

The traditions, methods and practices of today are memorialized and honored by providers and forgotten by our patients of tomorrow;
Technology reduces service demand and automates supply side service delivery;
Patient behaviors are always aligned with the most effective, efficient and, therefore, the most appropriate preventive and reactive care pathway;
Medicine is custom-delivered to the patient;
Going out of the home to receive care is no longer needed; and
The capacity bubble caused by artificial demand for services driven by fee-for-service economics collapses.

This is a future where EMS may not even be necessary except in the rarest of circumstances.

Source: JEMS Special Topics - October 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jonathan D. Washko, MBA, NRP, AEMD Tags: Columns Exclusive Articles Administration and Leadership Source Type: news