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Mobile Integrated Healthcare

What is mobile integrated healthcare?

"Mobile integrated healthcare" uses patient-centered, mobile out-of-hospital resources in a coordinated manner with physicians, hospitals, and other providers.  It encompasses a myriad of potential expanded roles for EMTs, paramedics, and EMS systems, as well as collaborations with other types of providers, to provide higher quality patient-centered care and helping to prevent emergencies before they begin.

Why now?

  • Out-of-hospital care systems (e.g. EMS) are increasingly sophisticated and capable of providing a wide variety of treatments.
  • Telemedicine capabilities are robust, widely available and increasingly affordable.
  • Health care delivery system reform is gaining momentum.  Organizations are seeking innovative care models to improve health, improve quality and lower cost.
  • The most vulnerable patients are already being transported by EMS.

Why should EMS be involved?

  • Current role of EMS is limited to transporting all patients to emergency departments.
  • Significant percentage of EMS calls and ED visits are for non-urgent conditions.
  • This paradigm is costly to healthcare systems and not patient-centered.
  • Health systems are facing new incentives to reduce admissions for ambulatory sensitive conditions through coordination of care as a part of health care reform.

Why New York?

  • Reduce the strain on EMS and ED resources.
  • Improve the quality and coordination of care provided to the public.
  • Fill some of the gaps in the existing healthcare system and prevent readmissions.
  • Increase the value that Out-of-Hospital Care (EMS) provides to society.​

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