EMS News

A newly formed HIPAA Compliance Agency has stated that their first order of business will be to target Paramedic Students who have used the FISDAP program.  According to Special Agent in Charge Huedon Car, HIPAA policies have been violated since ...

Officials within the US Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged today that effective January 1st, 2015 all governance and control of Emergency Medical Services will be relegated to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), specifically the Advanced Nursing ...

The US Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS) wants people to take HIPAA more seriously. To get compliance they are establishing a new federal investigative agency, the HIPAA Police.

California legislation is in the process of passing a bill to allow individual municipalities and private ambulance companies, to carry and administer medical marijuana.

Katie Brigid, a paramedic with AMR recently also started taking classes at a local nursing school. After her first few classes Katie made a startling revelation, she is not a actually a paragod, she does not know everything!

EMTs and Paramedics in New York could be allowed one drink per 12 hours on shift if a new protocol is approved. Various groups of medics have been lobbying for this, and now it might become a reality.

Union officials state a paramedic at Los Angeles’ F & B Ambulance service was suspended without pay yesterday for refusing a mandatory overtime shift.

Officials at Los Angeles’ Central Receiving Hospital stated today that a tour bus overturned in the city, flooding them with casualties and disrupted a planned disaster drill.

Rural/Metro Corporation announced today that it is instituting a “Pay as you go” option in several of their regional sites.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that effective immediately, paramedics in The Big Apple will no longer be permitted to give most intravenous sugar solutions to diabetics.