Perfect Storm: factors converge to create data surge
FirstWatch President Todd Stout is interviewed by IAED Journal editorial board member Keith Griffiths to discuss the important of using data, and why it matters. Read the Interview.
Crisis Porportions: Communications Center Strategies to Rally Against Opioid Epidemic
FirstWatch is proud to help agencies detect opioid overdoses and share that information with local stakeholders that can intervene in real-time. Learn more in this article featured in the March/April Issue of The Journal. Read the Article.
How One EMS Agency in Nevada is Collecting, Analyzing Data
Clark County Fire Department leaders wanted to go beyond measuring response times and look more closely at patient care performance. But using their current software, reviewing performance was labor intensive and time consuming – they could look back at individual charts, or create spreadsheets about a particular indicator, but they couldn’t look at multiple aspects of all calls systematically. Clark County decided to use FirstPass, the tool that continually mines data in CADs and ePCRs, alerting managers to deviations in...
Fighting Fire with Data
FirstWatch customer Fire Chief Otto Drozd of Orange County Fire Rescue, FL and his team harness the power of data to make important measures available in real time, without significantly adding to their workload, to reach the highest level of performance possible. Read the Article.
Advanced MIH-CP Tools Distill Data into Wisdom
FirstWatch President Todd Stout was interviewed by JEMS Magazine for their November supplement, Technology Innovations Driving MIH-CP. In his interview Todd discusses how real-time healthcare data systems can advance the MIH-CP practice. Read the Interview.
Total Quality Management: How Richmond Uses Technology to Enhance the QA/QI Process
The Richmond Ambulance Authority is featured in the July issue of JEMS magazine for their innovative approach to quality, continually measuring, analyzing and improving outcomes and processes across the entire organization. Richmond Ambulance Authority uses FirstPass® technology to enhance and automate its Total Quality Management system. FirstPass automatically puts each patient care record through a series of tests, comparing documentation and patient care to agency protocols—allowing them to provide near real-time feedback to crews. Read the Article.
Drowning in Data, Thirsting for Knowledge
The benefits of real-time & near-real-time feedback As featured in the JEMS Data Supplement, FirstWatch Founder & President Todd Stout and John Tobin, alarm room captain for the Mesa Fire Department and lead educator with the University of Arizona's EPIC project, discuss how taking advantage of real-time feedback from today's modern monitor/defibrillators can improve provider and overall system performance. Read the Article.
A Real-Time Look at the System: How Dashboards Keep Leaders in the Moment
Download PDF(EMS World, October Issue, 2013) FirstWatch president Todd Stout talks FirstWatch dashboards that monitor key performance indicators in real time as part of the “Perspectives from Pinnacle” feature in the October issue.
What is Data Good For?
Download PDF (EMS World, August Issue, 2013) Alexander Garza, MD, MPH, former FirstWatch medical director and homeland security advisor and Nick Nudell, systems integration manager, discuss the necessity of collecting and evaluating data in real time to improve the quality of patient care. They provide examples of how different agencies around the country are putting their data to use.
How Technology Keeps New Orleans Alert In Real Time
Download PDF (JEMS, May MCI Issue, 2013) To monitor health-related threats, New Orleans turned to the FirstWatch Realtime Situational Awareness System, which is used by systems throughout the world. The sophisticated system tracks information entered into computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems in real-time, and immediately sends an alert via email or text message to designated public health and safety officials if it detects certain symptoms or trends of concern.
Conventional Wisdom: The Democratic and Republican National Conventions require lots of planning – and some state-of-the-art technology
Download PDF (Best Practices in Emergency Services, February 2013)FirstWatch was on-hand at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to monitor health-related threats and keep attendees safe.
Innovation: FirstWatch Software Plots Hidden Data Trends
Download PDF (San Diego Business Journal, Volume 34, Number 7) The San Diego Business Journal features FirstWatch for Innovation in Technology: Safety, Fire, Disease Among Uses for Incident Tracking.
High Anxiety: National Security Events Take Collaboration, Planning
The Democratic and Republican National Conventions are two of the United States’ most important and highest stakes gatherings. As thousands of elected officials, delegates, and media representatives descended on the respective host cities, public health and safety officials from the local, state, and federal levels worked with FirstWatch to prepare for threats—manmade or natural—that could disrupt the events.
Secure in the Cloud:The New Public vs. Private Debate is in Data Security
Download PDF (Journal of Emergency Medical Services, JEMS, December 2012) In this article from the December 2012 edition of JEMS, Todd Stout discusses what EMS providers should consider when analyzing cloud storage options for patient data.
More 911 Centers Are Using Real-Time Data to Improve Performance
(The Journal of Emergency Dispatch, 2012) By Jenifer Goodwin Last year Thomas McEntee, general manager for American Medical Response (AMR) in Riverside, Calif., was looking for ways to improve response times in his service area, which encompasses some 5,500 square miles and just under 2 million people. "When we started to drill down and look at each individual time interval and where there were opportunities for us to save a few seconds here or there, one area we decided to focus on was...
Q&A with Todd Stout, founder and president, FirstWatch
Download PDF (Best Practices in Emergency Services, July 2012)Todd Stout discusses winning an “EMS 10” innovator award, his father’s (Jack Stout) legacy in EMS, and what it takes to be a leader in EMS today.
Las Vegas Dispatchers Help Improve SCA Survival Rates
Download PDF (Best Practices in Emergency Services, June 2012)David Slattery, M.D., the Las Vegas Fire & Rescue deputy chief and EMS medical director, has a mission to improve sudden cardiac arrest survival in his city with the assistance of FirstWatch.
Crime in Real-Time: Using CAD Data for Crime Analysis
Download PDF (Law Officer, April 2012)FirstWatch used to help Oceanside Police recover Olympic Gold Medal
Top 10 EMS Innovators for 2011
Download PDF (Journal of Emergency Medical Services, April 2012)FirstWatch’s fearless leader, Todd Stout, was recognized as one of the Top 10 EMS Innovators for 2011 by JEMS magazine.
EMS Royal Flush
Download PDF (Journal of Emergency Medical Services, JEMS, February 2012)Against all odds, Jersey City Medical Center EMS reinvented itself and achieved five major national EMS recognitions. Their epic efforts set a new standard for overcoming adversity, EMS system redesign, clinical excellence and employee acceptance–and implementing electronic processes like FirstWatch was part of the solution.
