“Telemedicine now an option on McKinney ambulances”
About: Article about how telemedicine (video conferencing) has been implemented in McKinney ambulances in Texas due to Covid-19. Paramedics are now able to consult via video stream with a doctor to determine if the patient needs to go to the hospital or what kind of care they need. Video coverage is included in the article.
URL: https://www.fox4news.com/news/telemedicine-now-an-option-on-mckinney-ambulances
Language: English
Publication date: 2021-11-12
About: Website about Hippo Health which is an app that helps EMS teams. The app enables video consultation either between the en-route-paramedic to a 911 caller or between the paramedic and a physician in the hospital.
URL: https://www.hippohealth.com/ems
Language: English
You can find a video demonstration clip in Youtube clip 7.
About: Website about the Danish company Incendium which provides secure live video streaming that can be used in the ambulance or at the scene of an emergency to communicate with the hospital.
URL: https://www.incendium.dk/?lang=en
Language: English
About: Website about the GoodSAM app which provides the ability for emergency callers to share live video from their mobile on the scene. This can be viewed in the ambulance and thereby the staff can assess the scene before they arrive.
URL: https://www.goodsamapp.org/
Language: English
“Videosamtal med 112: “Ett oerhört bra komplement”
Om: Radioreportage som beskriver att folk i Uppsala nu kan ringa 112 med video och inte bara ljud. Detta kommer göra så att personalen på nödcentralen kan bedöma skadorna och patienternas tillstånd bättre.
About: Radio coverage about that people in Uppsala, Sweden, now can call 112 with video instead of just audio. This will enable the emergency dispatcher to actually see the injuries and evaluate the severity of the person’s condition.
URL: https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/videosamtal-med-112-ett-oerhort-bra-komplement
Language: Swedish
Publication date: 2022-06-30
“Worcester EMTs now being used for telemedicine calls”
About: Video coverage of how EMTs during the pandemic responded to emergency calls with the capability to connect a caller with a doctor via a video consultation to diagnose if the patient needed to go to the hospital or not.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezyFF4UrzLs
Language: English
Publication date: 2020-04-10
“Paramedics now using Telemedicine”
About: During the pandemic the Hippo Health app was used by paramedics en route in the ambulance to an emergency caller to maybe avoid the spread of the corona virus if the patient didn’t need to go to the hospital. This is a video coverage showing how the app was used to have video consultations with the 911 caller so that the paramedics could assess if the patient might have corona and if they needed transportation to a hospital or if they could stay at home.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgebV5dzDzE
Language: English
Publication date: 2020-04-02
“South Central Ambulance Service to use GoodSAM’s Instant On Scene”
About: Article about that South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust in the UK will start to use the GoodSAM app for emergency situations. When a person calls 999 video consultation will be available to guide people nearby the sick/wounded person with what they can do to help before the ambulance arrives.
URL: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/08/south-central-ambulance-service-to-use-goodsams-instant-on-scene/
Language: English
Publication date: 2020-08-10
“Evaluation Of CPR Quality Via Smartphone With A Video Livestream – A Study In A Metropolitan Area”
About: A study performed in 2018 in Cologne where it was examined if video livestreaming from a smartphone (the caller’s) to the EMS dispatcher could improve the quality of CPR.
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903127.2020.1734122
Language: English
Publication date: 2019-12-14
“Videoløsning nå også tilgjengelig for legebilen”
About: Article about a project that started with enabling video when you call 113 (emergency call in Norway). The result has been good and therefore it has now been implemented in the ambulance as the emergency call responders can pass on the video call to the paramedics. This has enabled the ambulance staff to see the video from the scene they are headed to, to prepare better.
URL: https://ambulanseforum.no/artikler/videolosning-na-ogsa-tilgjengelig-for-legebilen
Language: Norwegian
Publication date: 2022-01-14
