Pulsara Around the World - 2023 Recap and January 2024

November & December Recap

We made it! In just a few days, we'll be ushering in a new year. What has Team Pulsara been up to in 2023? Before we dive into our annual Year in Review, let's look at what the team was up to in November and December.

In addition to exhibiting at ten trade shows, Pulsara's SVP - Strategic Accounts, Corey Ricketson, and Sr. Director - Strategic Initiatives, Lee Wallace, hosted an MCI Academy during the Pee Dee EMS Symposium,  Pulsara's SVP - Strategic Initiatives, Joey Branton, presented a session during IAEM's Annual Conference & EMEX, and Pulsara's Founder & CEO, Dr. James Woodson, talked to attendees about 'Pre-hospital technologies: LVO detection, triage, feedback' during the EMS World SPEED Sessions at the SVIN Annual Conference. 

Exploring Customer Successes 

• Presented by the American Trauma Society and moderated by Pulsara CS Specialist Cara McCoy, the webinar 'How Tech + Relationships + A Winning Trauma Care System' brought two expert Colorado trauma program leaders together to discuss how they developed a state-of-the-art trauma care system with Pulsara.   

• The University of Dundee in Scotland published an abstract to the Scottish Heart & Arterial Disease Risk Prevention titled "Addressing Cardiovascular Disease Using a Novel Communication Tool Pulsara: Digital Communication Pathway of Excellence in Scotland." The abstract showed how leveraging Pulsara can help teams improve patient care, decrease treatment times, and reduce the risk of communication errors. 

• At the beginning of the year, Pulsara was listed as an approved cloud software supplier by Crown Commercial Service on the updated G-Cloud 13 framework. Because Pulsara is now available through this framework, organisations in the UK are specifically enabled to procure the Pulsara UNITED solution for hospitals and ambulance services.  

• How can your teams Leverage Network Communication to Build a System of Care that Scales? In this interview between Pulsara Senior Vice President - Strategic Accounts Corey Ricketson and Executive Director of the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC), Eric Epley, the pair identified what it takes to build a true system of care that scales and how modern and scalable technologies are necessary to maintain this infrastructure system into the future. 

• In an exclusive roundtable discussion during the webinar 'Leveraging Technology in Hazard Response: Advancements and Future Trends,' emergency management and healthcare leaders from Texas and Colorado detailed how they're deploying communication and patient tracking technology locally and statewide, the benefits and opportunities, and where they see the future of emergency management communication and coordination heading.  
• Looking to enhance your EMS team's ability to coordinate care and communication during MCIs and preplanned large events? In this expert panel webinar discussion, EMS leaders from Texas, Colorado, and California share their insights and strategies to streamline communication and improve patient outcomes. Watch the webinar here!
• Presented by the American Trauma Society, our last webinar of the year, 'How Tech + Relationships = A Winning Trauma Care System,' brought two expert trauma program leaders from Colorado together to discuss how they've developed a state-of-the-art trauma care system that increases MSI readiness, optimized continuity of care, built strong internal and external relationships, and more. 

• National Park Medical Center reimagined their STEMI and stroke communication with Pulsara. For three consecutive quarters, they achieved an average door-to-balloon time of under 60 minutes for STEMI patients. They also decreased their average door-to-CT time for stroke patients from 30 minutes to less than 6 minutes. 

• Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock adopted Pulsara to improve communication around stroke cases. In five months, Baptist Health's stroke team reduced their average door-to-puncture times by 58%. 

• New data published by a division of Australia's Department of Health, the Victoria Agency for Health Information, found that using communication and logistics technology reduced time-to-treatment for critical stroke patients by 80% at Latrobe Regional Hospital. 
• We've shared more case studies and publications this year. Check out our review of 2023 publications and case studies!    

Partnerships

• Pulsara partnered with PDC, a global manufacturer in healthcare identification, to offer wristbands for tracking patients within the Pulsara platform.