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GD CAREpoint 2.0 to Support FDNY EMS
GD (General Devices) has announced that it once again partnered with the Fire Department of the City of New York to implement CAREpoint 2.0 at its Telemetry Center in Woodside, Queens. The FDNY is a longtime client who has relied on GD for dependable, effective communication since the mid 1990’s. The Department began using the CAREpoint Workstation in 2008 to facilitate Online Medical Control consultations between department physicians and city paramedics. After a decade of consistent quality and effectiveness, they have upgraded to GD’s latest workstation, CAREpoint 2.0. With a patient en route to an emergency depart...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - March 23, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Documentation & Patient Care Reporting Industry News Source Type: news

Steward Health Care to Expand Industry-Leading Ambulance App Twiage to Massachusetts Hospitals and Facilities
Boston, MA – Emergency departments at Steward Health Care hospitals and facilities across Massachusetts will soon feature Twiage, a HIPAA-compliant app that allows emergency responders to share patient information with hospital personnel real-time, to expedite lifesaving care. Steward will expand Twiage to all of its emergency departments after a successful year-long pilot program with 14 emergency service providers at five hospitals. Designed by physicians and emergency medical technicians, Twiage offers emergency responders the ability to use a smartphone to share real-time patient data and send HIPAA-compliant ph...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 4, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steward Health Care Tags: Industry News Operations Source Type: news

Researchers Find Mobile Communication App Helps Deliver Stroke Treatments Faster
Currently in the United States someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds, and each of those cases relies on getting treatment as fast as possible in order to assure best chances for recovery. Expediting care for these critical patients requires smooth communication between first responders in the field, the emergency room staff, and the specialty stroke team. Unfortunately, this delicate relay is not always well executed, as care teams are patching together archaic technologies such as pagers, faxes, emails, call lists, and other communication methods that do not integrate. Results from a study recently published in the Jo...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - February 3, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Patient Care Industry News Source Type: news

Prehospital Tech Startup Wins the American Heart Association ’s Health Tech Competition
New York, N.Y. – The American Heart Association (AHA) 2016 Health Tech Competition awarded the People’s Choice Award to Twiage, a novel prehospital communication solution enabling real-time triage and care coordination for incoming ambulances. The competition recognizes innovative healthcare solutions that improve patient outcomes for heart health. Twiage delivers real-time situational awareness of incoming ambulances to busy emergency departments through a secure and HIPAA-compliant smartphone app. Paramedics and EMTs can use Twiage to notify a hospital of an incoming cardiac patient within seconds and then quickly tr...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - November 15, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Industry News Communications & Dispatch Source Type: news

Prehospital Notification Startup Takes One of the Top Prizes from 2016 Cornell Venture Challenge
Ithaca, NY, April 14th, 2016 – A judging panel of entrepreneur, venture capital and angel investors selected S.A.L.T., a medical diagnostic technology that a patient uses at home to monitor his/her 24-hour sodium levels in urine, and Twiage, a novel prehospital communication and ambulance triage solution that accelerates life-saving emergency care, as the two top place winners of the 2016 Cornell Venture Challenge. John Hui, Twiage’s Head of Business Development, gave Twiage’s winning pitch, “Believe it or not, we are in the 21st Century, but radios are still the current standard of communication between ambulances...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - May 12, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Industry News Communications & Dispatch Source Type: news