Emergency medical services represents the No. 1 referral source for most hospitals, says Peter Antevy, MD, medical director at Davie Fire Rescue and a pediatric emergency department physician at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, Fla.
Too often, information between an ambulance and the hospital is exchanged verbally, or if data is being transmitted, it is done in only one direction—EMS personnel are sending patient data to the hospital, with nothing being transmitted back to them.
