EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Alison Bruns for writing today's blog post. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.
The importance of maintaining company culture, teamwork & recognition in a telecommuting, multi-state company.
As a Human Resources professional, I constantly have company culture and employee engagement in the forefront of my brain. Are we doing enough to make sure our employees love working here? Do they feel engaged and included in the team?
In a more traditional business setup with brick and mortar locations and employees working 8:00a-5:00pm in office, it is often easier to gauge these crucial metrics as the ability to physically get ‘a feel’ for the energy is possible in such a setting. And though perhaps a bit more effortful, in a company with several remote employees across many states, it is still very possible to not only maintain, but also foster a strong company culture full of employees that truly feel like part of the team.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Jeff Lutzenberger, Ph.D., for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
We don’t use the microservice pattern - but we’re still changing healthcare! I know what you’re thinking, “No microservices? Whelp, I can just stop reading now.” BUT WAIT! I promise you’ll still enjoy this article.
Pulsara has added several new features to better enable endovascular treatment for stroke patients at hospitals that are intervention capable.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Brian Maher for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
Working from home is a luxury that has been increasingly afforded to many of us in the tech industry (and a growing number of other industries too). About 6 months ago, I was given the opportunity to join the millions of Americans who already work remotely full time...only my switch to a remote workplace was going to be a bit more involved than for most.
I wouldn’t just be working remotely in another city, or office, but instead in another country, in another timezone, with literally no possibility of coming in to the office if I needed to. The extreme nature of my work-from-home setup left me feeling anxious about the experience, so I read various blogs in efforts to make the move a positive learning experience for myself and a productive one for my employers.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Cynthia Bradford Lencioni for writing today's blog post. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. --- Henry Ford
No matter who you are, what your personality type is, or what kind of work you do, from time to time it is inevitable that you will say to yourself:
“How on earth am I going to ever accomplish this?”
“Where do I begin?”
“There’s no way!...”
I can sure relate to these expressions in my life experiences. As a student athlete in college, those 18-hour days that started with a 5am morning workout and ended doing calculus problems into the evening were daunting. I eventually learned not to focus on the GPA I had to reach to maintain my scholarship, but rather on doing well on the exams, projects, and papers along the way each semester.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Kathy Walsh for writing today's blog post. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.
So you think multitasking makes you more efficient at home and at work? Not so much...
My husband was the one who pointed it out the other morning ... I was on the verge of becoming “that guy.” You know, the person who keeps glancing at their smartphone or emails during the team meeting and later doesn’t follow through, provide support, or remember the group decision and next steps because they weren’t really mentally engaged?
Or that friend you meet for lunch who has their smartphone on the table and alternates between instant messaging the kids, posting pictures of your meal to Facebook, and looking at the restaurant reviews on Yelp while you are “chatting?"
Or the person driving ahead of you who is swerving, changing speeds, and running red lights while talking (or, **GASP** texting) on her cell phone?
Oh sure, my multitasking seemed innocent enough. I was simply checking my cell phone for work emails and responding WHILE reading the morning paper, WHILE watching the 6:00 am news, WHILE eating breakfast, WHILE my husband was asking about the day’s plans.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Tia Smith for writing today's blog post. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.
The widespread adoption of the term “disruption” to describe any force that shakes up an industry has created a particular kind of faux pas in the business world, where business leaders often default to using it for a much wider spread of changes than the technical definition actually implies.
Let’s take a closer look at why disruption is misused to describe a cascade of events, rather than its intended use: to describe the technical strategy behind a company’s actions.
Bozeman, MT - November 4th, 2015 - Pulsara's development team has created several new features, which will be released in the next version of the app (version 4.2). Some of the new features include:
Pulsara has been awarded the EMS Top Innovation Award, as announced at the September 2015 EMS World Expo in Las Vegas. This award is presented to the most innovative products of the year, as judged by a panel from the EMS World Expo Faculty and EMS World Editorial Advisory Board.
Pulsara is a platform that performs like an app to coordinate and simplify the care process for STEMI and stroke. The Pulsara story starts at a dinner party in late 2011, when a group of dedicated medical professionals who were part of Leading Edge Medical Associates (LEMA) came together to discuss a challenge: “How can we improve patient care in our facilities? How can we help our healthcare system pursue value based healthcare – providing improved quality of care at a lower cost?”
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally pubilshed on EMS1.com. EMS1 serves as the largest site for paramedics and EMTs to find expert industry-relevant content.
With EMS and hospital professionals looking at different clocks—different timelines—for the same patient, it’s surprising that there aren’t more issues. And that’s not getting into other related information that is transmitted along the line: patient records, ECGs, and other miscellaneous documents. When every second counts, that type of miscommunication can be dangerous, or even fatal.
The future of healthcare is in bridging these gaps and creating a single protocol that encompasses the entire process from first contact to definitive treatment and includes all the stakeholders involved. The idea itself is a simple communication protocol that:
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to our guest blogger, Bob Sullivan. Bob Sullivan, MS, NRP, is a paramedic instructor at Delaware Technical Community College. He has been in EMS since 1999, and has worked as a paramedic in private, fire-based, volunteer, and municipal EMS services, and is an ally to Pulsara.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published on EMS1.com. EMS1 serves as the largest site for paramedics and EMTs to find expert industry-relevant content.
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Medical professionals are always pushing to discover better methods to improve patient outcomes. Nowhere is this more true than in acute care situations, where communication is critical and every second counts.
But up until now, there hasn’t been a great one-size-fits-all solution to the problem of sharing information—benchmark times, patient information, etc.—between emergency response team members, due to great variation from place to place and organization to organization.
One company looked for a way to put a method to the madness. By pulling together people, alerts, and information in a single platform that’s available to everyone, the days of “who knew what when” can be put firmly in the past.
Here’s how Pulsara works, along with five reasons it is quickly becoming the leading technology for improving patient outcomes.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Jean Morgan for writing today's blog post. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.
Knock. Knock.
Who’s There?
HIPAA.
HIPAA Who?
I can’t tell you that.
UGGGG. You’ve heard it before.
“Please sign this. It’s for HIPAA.”
OR
“We can’t share that information with you.” “Why not?” “Because … HIPAA!”
Truth is, most people (healthcare folks included) do not have a strong understanding of what HIPAA actually is. In fact, you’ll sometimes even see it spelled incorrectly!
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Kris Kaull, B.S., NRP, CCEMT-P, FP-C (Pulsara's matchless visionary Chief Marketing/Growth Officer, 2013-2024) for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Like … who are you REALLY? When no one is looking. When you’re by yourself. Who are you? What principles guide your decisions?
Welcome to the final, and Part 4, of our series that asks the question: “Who is Pulsara?”
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Elisa Ramsey for writing today's blog post. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.
Pulsara, like many startups, has a work environment that is flexible, fun, and constantly changing. That said, we also work hard to ensure that we always have our bases covered through a strong organizational backbone. As the Office Manager at Pulsara, I have to make sure I can systematically keep track of every tiny but integral detail, piece of paperwork, or signature that comes through our doors.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Jeffrey Hobson for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
This seems to be one of the most common questions people ask firefighters and paramedics.
Imagine the following scenario:
You call 911 for your neighbor who’s having chest pain. Within a few moments, a big fire engine shows up with your community’s beloved uniformed firefighters. Your friends and fellow neighbors take notice right away and ask, “Why can’t they just send an ambulance? Do they need to waste all that money sending a big truck to a simple medical incident? Can a firefighter really help me right now?”
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Kris Kaull, B.S., NRP, CCEMT-P, FP-C (Pulsara's matchless visionary Chief Marketing/Growth Officer, 2013-2024) for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
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At Pulsara, our Vision is our future roadmap, the answer to the question: “Where do we see ourselves in the future?”
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Kris Kaull, B.S., NRP, CCEMT-P, FP-C (Pulsara's matchless visionary Chief Marketing/Growth Officer, 2013-2024) for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
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In Part 1 of our 4-part series about who we are as a company, we defined our mission, the answer to WHAT do we do at Pulsara. We unite and empower people to improve health by simplifying care coordination.
In conjunction with our mission, our purpose statement answers HOW. How will we accomplish our mission? Or more specifically, how is Pulsara going to simplify care coordination?
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Kris Kaull, B.S., NRP, CCEMT-P, FP-C (Pulsara's matchless visionary Chief Marketing/Growth Officer, 2013-2024) for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.
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We care about what we’re doing.
We care about the latest in stroke research. We care about streamlining and maximizing efficiencies in STEMI cases. We care about building Regional Systems of Care. AND, we care about people.
How does that fit into the big picture?
One of the challenges in any organization is direction. At Pulsara, it’s critically important that we focus on the right core projects at the right time with the right level of concentration. How do we accomplish that? By defining who we are.
Over this 4-part series, we’ll be reviewing our mission, our purpose, our vision and our non-negotiable set of values.
