What Drives Paramedic Job Satisfaction? [2024 EMS Trend Survey]
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Bozeman, MT – May 9, 2017 – Pulsara announced today the release of their app version 6.0, which offers flexibility for anybody at the hospital to be added to the team, or to change the team structure on the fly.
"Pretty rad, right?" queried Flight Paramedic and Chief Marketing Officer, Kris Kaull.
The company stated that existing clients have asked them to make Pulsara more adaptable to their specific workflows. "Fulfilling this request requires adding flexibility to the application and platform -- and the concept of flexibility almost inevitably leads to increased complexity. That being said, one of our core values is to simplify. At Pulsara, we reduce complexity through innovation. Walking the line between these two competing priorities is a challenge, but we made it happen!" said Senior Software Engineer, Eric Barnes. "With the release of 6.0, Pulsara provides new workflow and alerting flexibility while remaining simple to use."
Pulsara provided the following examples of this new functionality:
Stop Stroke Tutorial
"Another feature we are excited about is that physicians can now manager their own on call status," said Erich Hannan, VP of Development. "Multiple physicians can now be on call simultaneously for a given team. For example, the attending neurologist and a couple resident neurologists could be on call for stroke patients at the same time. When a stroke case is activated, all three would get assigned and receive a primary alert. Managing call status at multiple hospitals is also supported for physicians."
In version 6.0, the Assigned Team Card allows users to update the people and teams assigned to the case with a couple of taps. All of the information about assigned clinicians, who has acknowledged, and the ability to add people to the patient’s care team is all consolidated in one, convenient location.
Using the Team Alerts screen in 6.0, users can see the full details about who has received which alerts, who has acknowledged, and which teams are not yet ready for the current patient.
Pulsara also added an “Update” button to easily assign additional teams or people to the case.
"These are all updates that will make our users' lives much easier," said Brian Crumrine, Lead QA Engineer. "But, the new Assign Team Screen is the meat and potatoes of the 6.0 release,"
Some features of the Assign Team Screen include:
NOTES:
Pulsara announced that the Alert Physicians card has been removed from the Inbound EMS Screen for both STEMI and Stroke.
"In order to support a more flexible system, allow physicians to manage their own on call status, and allow more than one physician to be assigned to a single case, we did some spring cleaning and replaced the direct, single physician assignment paradigm with the new Assigned Team functionality," said James Woodson, Chief Executive Officer.
In version 6.0, the Assigned Physicians Card has been removed from the Active Patient Screen for both STEMI and Stroke. In this version:
According to Hannan, assigned interventional specialists are included in new Assigned Team functionality.
In efforts to help users ensure their teams are in the loop, the company made simple, step-by-step PDFs that walk a user through assigning physicians and other team members to a case. Formatted in standard letter size, they can easily be printed and displayed in users' departments.
From the dashboard, users can now list, view, and edit the teams at a hospital. They have the ability to configure when different teams get alerted in each patient’s lifecycle. For example, a user could set up the on call cardiologist to get automatically alerted when EMS creates a STEMI patient.
Pulsara encourages users to speak with their Pulsara Account Managers to help get their systems configured.
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Editor's Note:In August 2024, EMS1 and Fitch & Associates released their annual EMS trend survey, What Paramedics Want, proudly sponsored by...
Editor's Note:In August 2024, EMS1 and Fitch & Associates released their annual EMS trend survey, What Paramedics Want, proudly sponsored by...
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