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Pulsara is excited to announce that the company has been featured as a 2019 "Best Tech Startup in Bozeman" by The Tech Tribute. According the thetechtribune.com, winners were chosen based on a number of factors and qualifications:

In emergent care, an incredibly powerful opportunity exists to deliver quality healthcare. We can help you level up your quality game by improving the patient journey and facilitating the delivery of critical care. Whether you're treating trauma, stroke, cardiac arrest, or sepsis, every second counts. Time is tissue.

When it comes to your hospital's performance, people are looking. They want to ensure they receive the best care - for those 'just in case' scenarios. They want to see where you stack up, in comparison to the competition. 

In today's world, performance and ranking take on even greater significance with the increased importance of social proof. Over 70% of internet users say they looked online for health information within the past year, with the most commonly researched topics being specific diseases or conditions; treatments or procedures; and doctors or other health professionals. About 26% of Internet users have read about or watched someone else’s experience about health or medical issues in the last year.

Let's face it: time-critical performance is, well, critical for your hospital. It affects your hospital's certification. It affects your bottom line. Most importantly, it affects patient outcomes where time is tissue. To ensure that all hospitals adhere to a mission of quality, the Joint Commission measures performance in time-critical care situations to make sure that we all stay on track and work towards improvement.

How does your hospital stack up against these critical quality benchmarks?

As healthcare professionals, we have a powerful opportunity to change things for the better. To improve the lives of patients and the healthcare system as a whole - by demanding better processes and changes to protocols that simply don't work. And, to improve quality in healthcare delivery.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This past April, Pulsara's Chief Marketing Officer, Kris Kaull, had the honor of being selected to present a TED talk at TEDxBozeman. A practicing Flight Paramedic, Kris chose to share one of his most memorable calls, and his top three tips for bringing order to chaos -- as learned by a career in emergency medicine:

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It was early October. The fall leaves had turned colors and the air was brisk. Bob and his family finished dinner, watched TV, and scooted off to their own rooms for the night. They were all in bed by 11. A calm normal night, until it wasn’t.

The increased focus on quality in healthcare over the past two decades has inevitably resulted in more regulation, certification, and accreditation of hospitals and providers.

Today, many organizations serve as stewards of quality, helping us measure, benchmark, and ensure quality across the healthcare industry. They remind us how far we’ve come, and how far we have to go in achieving excellence in healthcare.

Jump into the way, way back time machine with us, if you would, to the beginning of the new millennium. It was a much different time for sure. So many industries were on the verge of a paradigm shift, including healthcare. The National Academy of Medicine raised an important red flag about - and focused public awareness on - patient safety, or the lack thereof.

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HOLMDEL, N.J., June 12, 2019 -- Vonage (NYSE: VG), a global business cloud communications leader, today announced it has partnered with Pulsara, a healthcare mobile communications platform. Leveraging the OpenTok Live Video API, via Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform, Pulsara connects clinicians across healthcare entities in real-time, enabling video chat telehealth capabilities between emergency responders and the critical care teams in the hospital. Nexmo APIs provide real-time video communications that allow organizations to deliver secure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth capabilities using encrypted media streams and recordings, advanced security, and detailed analytics to elevate the patient care experience.

In a recent episode of Inside EMS, which was first published on EMS1.com, co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson examine the current EMS models, and evaluate which may or may not have the components necessary to withstand the changes that come with a rapidly developing industry, shaped increasingly by modern technology and new protocols and research. 

Healthcare is burdened by the archaic means of communication. And everyone — from EMS to critical care teams to the discharge teams at the hospital — is feeling the effects. Luckily, hospital and EMS providers no longer need to be stuck in the dark ages of communication. Technology companies like Pulsara and Acuity Link work to streamline the most frustrating and broken parts of the patient care and communication processes from first medical transport through patient discharge.

Acuity Link’s CEO and co-founder, Alex Theoharidis purpose-built the company as a means to address mounting inefficiencies in the medical transportation request process. Today he shares his perspectives around what is needed to streamline non-emergency medical transport (NEMT) logistics in order to improve patient flow, and how solutions like Acuity Link work to elevate a customer’s patient transfer process – and ultimately the entire patient experience.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to today's guest blogger, Reid Kiser.* 

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What gets measured gets improved. You’re likely familiar with this motto, used widely across all business sectors. Measurement of quality within our healthcare industry has increasingly become a priority over the last few decades. As a result of this quality measurement, we have seen improved patient care, health outcomes, and more efficient care delivery.

Your organization may already have experience with quality measurement. After all, it’s a “must” for most in meeting state and federal requirements – assuming you want to be reimbursed for healthcare services and remain in operation. But what does this measurement actually entail?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Courtney Chumley, FACPE, for writing today's blog post. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. 

With the arrival of EMS Week, comes a great opportunity to reflect on this year's theme: Beyond the Call, Crews and Caregivers placing service above self. It makes me incredibly proud to be part of a profession that recognizes these moments. However, as a manager it also has made me wonder how many moments are taking place every day that we miss. 

This theme makes me realize we can do a better job of recognizing many of the efforts by our EMS providers, and I am grateful that we have an entire week dedicated to doing just that. I truly believe that caregivers in our profession are stepping up every day without expectations to go above and beyond, and we can all do a better job of saying thank you to our colleagues. These moments can be the smallest of gestures that mean the world to someone else, or a huge effort made possible by entire departments joining forces. 

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BOZEMAN, Montana -- May 15, 2019 -- Pulsara announced it is a partner in DCRI’s IMPROVE Stroke Care Project. Pulsara's mission and purpose are aligned with the goals of the DCRI project. Pulsara, the leader in regional systems of care communications, has demonstrated reduced treatment times for stroke patients by facilitating communication across multiple healthcare entities, including: EMS, partner hospitals, and Comprehensive Stroke Centers that act as a hub for a region.

Drs. Brad Kolls, MD, PhD and Carmen Graffagnino, MD are the principal investigators for IMplementation of best PRactices fOr acute stroke care – developing and optimizing regional systems of Stroke Care (IMPROVE Stroke Care) Project.

The aim is to increase the rate and speed of cerebral reperfusion therapy administration through improvement of care systems in progressive stroke networks in the geography of the highest rates and deaths for stroke in the United States — the “stroke belt.” The primary vision for the IMPROVE Stroke Care project is to improve clinical outcomes by identifying the optimal processes of stroke care delivery through sharing data on performance and best practice allowing redesign of systems within the partnered networks in 7 regional geographies.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to today's guest blogger, Reid Kiser.* 

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It’s probably safe to say that we have all established goals – for ourselves or others – at some point in our lives. In follow-up to last week’s blog, I’d like to focus on goals related to improving the quality of healthcare. This has been a major focus for the industry over the past few decades. And most recently, the concept of value-based healthcare has taken root, whereby organizations are increasingly mindful of inefficiencies and waste.

But, where does one begin with establishing goals for improving quality? How does one know where efficiencies can be gained? Wait, there’s waste in our healthcare system? It’s hard to believe, considering the numbers of patients who can’t obtain the care they need to begin with.

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BOZEMAN, Montana -- May 7, 2019 -- Pulsara announced that it was named a 2019 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist in the Best Healthcare Technology Solution category. Finalists represent the best products, technologies, and services in software, information and business technology.