Welcome to this January 2014 TIMS Bulletin from the EMS Safety Foundation

Happy 2014!! Well 2013 sure has been an extraordinary year for advancing EMS Safety, and more instore for 2014.
Beginning the year with the TRB EMS Safety Subcommittee Meeting, announcements of the inaugural and now covetted EMS World EMS Safety Foundation - - Safety Innovation Awards (Standby for the announcements for the 2013 Awardees), and the roll out of the Ambulance Safety Innovation Design Module - INDEMO 1.0 - Project, and our first Medstartr Project where you can have direct benefit of the future right now.

Back the INDEMO Project below and you can be part of the cutting edge EMS Safety Foundations Innovation Consortium for one month!!

Click on this image above to reach the INDEMO Medstartr page

Outline:

1. INDEMO Project - and incentives for you!
2. Medstartr - the Future You Can Have Right Now!!
3. TRB ANB10(5) Subcommittee meeting, January 16th -2014
4. EMS Expo Ambulance Safety and Design Handouts
5. New TRB Rural publication
6. New TRB Emergency Management Publication
7. EMS World Ambulance Safety and Fleet Management articles
8. EMS Safety Foundation @EMS Today 2014


1. INDEMO Project - Rewards for you and Better, Safer and Cheaper Ambulance design

Get better, safer and cheaper ambulance design approaches - back this project AND get one months participation with the EMS Safety Foundation's Innovation Consortium membership for backing the INDEMO Project on Medstartr. The EMS Safety Foundation's new demonstration Project:
Ambulance Safety INDEMO 1.0
launched @EMS World Expo 2013 with great success, generating much interest and attention.

The Ambulance Safety Innovation Design Module 1.0, (INDEMO 1.0), is a unique hands on model ambulance rear compartment that is configurable so you can get the feel of being in a cutting edge rig - Integrating innovations from around the world for the north American market.
The INDEMO 1.0 was on display for its debut at EMS World Expo Sept in Vegas, and the Texas EMS Conference November 24-26th in Fort Worth Texas, where its Medstartr Project was launched.(See below)

This is the future that you can have right now.
Designs so that you can do your work with optimum safety and efficiency.
Based on state of the art science and practice and input from the world's leading experts in EMS, automotive safety and human factors.
Click this link -
www.INDEMO.info website
or
Scan this tag to reach our www.indemo.info website on your phone






Requests have been received from all over North America and around the world about the INDEMO project! The feature on MedCity news - http://medcitynews.com/2013/12/new-crowdfunding-campaign-wants-build-ambulance-21st-century/ of the EMS Safety Foundation's INDEMO Project on Medstartr! was a fabulous way to wrap up 2013.


As many of you are now aware the INDEMO Project is now on Medstartr!
And there are now great incentives for you to be part of that initiative - including an opportunity to have 1 month of special membership to the EMS Safety Foundation's Innovation Consortium, which a number of you have already benefitted from .
So what is the INDEMO Project ? It is the EMS Safety Foundations new interactive Ambulance Safety Innovation Design Module Project, a technically driven ambulance rear compartment design approach based on state of the art science and technical input - a cutting edge approach that you can get your hands on, that is also highly cost efficient for you. It sure has turned heads in the industry both throughout the USA, and now also internationally. The INDEMO Project, is technically driven operational ambulance design, that is - Better, Safer and Cheaper!

And Medstartr, what exactly is it? It is a new way to promote and get access to information, products and projects in advance of general availability, and to support the rapid development of those products. The EMS Safety Foundation is partnering with Medstartr for the INDEMO Project, so that there is a pathway for rapid development and for broadly disseminated access to the INDEMO Project. INDEMO is the very first EMS project for Medstartr.



So, do go to Medstartr!, and there you can get one months participation with the cutting edge EMS Safety Foundation's Innovation Consortium, set up your services own personalized skype tour of INDEMO 1.0, or even have INDEMO 1.0 come to your site/region for a workshop, as well as 3D blueprints and videos. Just go to Medstartr! It is first come first served. See links below.


2. Medstartr - the Future You Can Have Right Now - with special incentives for you right now!!

Do go to INDEMO project Medstartr page ! AND Get a bonus two months EMS Safety Foundation Membership by backing the INDEMO Medstartr Project. In a special new initiative - and the very first EMS project launch for Medstartr - the EMS Safety Foundation is partnering with Medstartr to help get you priority access to INDEMO 1.0 and also to help us get the next updates - INDEMO 1.1 and INDEMO 2.0 in development for you. So that you can see, and touch and move about in a vehicle configuration that is technically put together to provide you with a better, safer and also cheaper work environment - for larger format vehicles as well as the smaller vans.
Medstartr is a new tech and special organization who help disseminate and 'crowd fund' a unique project - and special rewards are given to those who contribute, so that they have discounted and early prerelease access to special products. Do check out the INDEMO project Medstartr page which launched officially last week for you to get your hands on the INDEMO project concepts and detailed designs, well in advance of them getting into the public domain AND with discounts for EMS Safety Foundation Innovation Consortium members.


Click on this image to reach the Medstartr page
- you can also embed this link on your site!

3. TRB January 16 2014 ANB10(5) EMS Safety Subcommittee meeting and info

The EMS Safety Subcommittee of the TRB will be meeting in DC at the Annual TRB conference on Thursday January 16th -2014, 8am to midday at the Keck Center. We shall be covering the new developments in ambulance transport safety.
Here is the January 16 TRB ANB10(5) Subcommittee Agenda and onsite attendance and online login info.
The twitter hashtag for the meeting is #TRBEMS14

Just scan this QR code below with your smartphone or iPad to join in the ANB10(5) EMS safety Subcommittee meeting virtually 8:00-12:00 USA EST, Jan 16th from anywhere in the world on your phone or tablet.



There have been 10's of thousands of downloads of the TRB ANB10(5) EMS Safety Subcommittee documents, here are four favourites:

a. The TRB ANB10(5) EMS Today 2013 EMS Fleet Management simulcast covered a spectrum of fleet management tools and was most valuable - thank you so much to our outstanding speakers Nancy Bendickson from AON, Bruce Farr from Ornge and Charlene Cobb from Sunstar - and to the National Academies and ANB10(5) for making the event possible.
Here is the link for the recording -and it is via youtube.
It is probably the most cutting edge presentation on this topic of EMS Fleet Management out there - it runs for two hours and is open access on Youtube.
Here is the Youtube link to the TRB EMS Fleet Management simulcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGjiRzGIMJs
and here is the handout also open access:
TRB EMS Fleet Management Webinar Handout

b. Download your own copy of the interactive 2012 TRB EMS Summit synopsis multimedia document
c. TRB EMS Summit You Tube Synopsis
d. TRB EMS Summit Webinar Synopsis


4. EMS Expo 2013 Ambulance Safety and Design Handouts

EMS World Expo 2013 was a great success, with the roll out of the INDEMO 1.0 project - and much interest in the activities of the EMS Safety Foundation.

There were two presentations given by the EMS Safety Foundation:
The theme being - "Ambulance Safety, Design, Standards and Survival - Safer, Better, Cheaper!"
"Strategies and Solutions for Ambulance Transport Safety Systems"
and
"How to Design Your Next Ambulance"

Over 55,000 folks have downloaded last year's handouts from our presentation at EMS World Expo, our most frequently downloaded handout - so do take a look at this years update!


5. New TRB Rural publication

Emergency Medical Services Response to Motor Vehicle Crashes in Rural Areas

Emergency Medical Services Response to Motor Vehicle Crashes in Rural Areas
Emergency Medical Services Response to Motor Vehicle Crashes in Rural Areas
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 451: Emergency Medical Services Response to Motor Vehicle Crashes in Rural Areas identifies potential factors that may help reduce the time needed to provide effective medical care to crash occupants on rural roads. Here is the link to the .pdf


6. New TRB Emergency Management Publication

TRB Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report, released November 3, 2013
TRB Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report
Since September 11, 2001, 145 security-, emergency management-, and infrastructure protection-related planning and implementation projects have been initiated through programs managed by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). One hundred eleven of these projects have been completed; 24 projects are in progress; and 10 projects have contracts pending or are currently in development. This report, updated monthly, provides information on about $20 million worth of completed and ongoing TRB security research.
The report includes information on research that is formally coordinated between the Transit Cooperative Research Program and National Cooperative Highway Research Program. The report also highlights security-related projects developed under TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program, Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program, Transit Innovation Deserving Exploratory Analysis program, National Cooperative Freight Research Program, Legal Research Program, and Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program.
Here is the link to the .pdf
Much valuable information for EMS and Emergency Management.


7. EMS World Ambulance Safety and Fleet Management articles

The EMS World Magazine this year has a number of great articles about EMS Safety
It is just great to see so many of the EMS Safety Foundation's Innovation Consortium members, from across the USA and internationally in the lineup highlighted in those EMS World Magazine articles - Jim Swartz from Careflite Texas, Ronald Rolfsen from Oslo Norway, the Telematicus fleet folks from the UK to name a few!
Simplicity in Form and Function, Taking a page from European ambulance designs could yield safer ambulances in the U.S, by Jason Busch, February 28, 2013 http://www.emsworld.com/article/10886873/simplicity-in-form-and-function
Ambulance Safety Measures Prove Their Worth, by John Erich, March 1, 2013 http://www.emsworld.com/article/10862075/ambulance-safety-measures-prove-their-worth
Intelligent Vehicle System and Fleet Management Technologies, by James Careless, March 4, 2013 http://www.emsworld.com/article/10888153/intelligent-vehicle-system-and-fleet-management-technologies
How do European and American systems compare when it comes to ambulance design and safety issues? by Julian Klappauf, March 15, 2013, http://www.emsworld.com/article/10319272/ambulance-and-ems-personnel-safety


8. EMS Safety Foundation @EMS Today 2014

For those of you who didnt make it to EMS Today 2013 - right at the front entrance to the JEMS EMS Today Exhibit Hall! We look forward to seeing you there @ EMS Today 2014

Many folks came by to learn about the cutting edge work underway with the EMS Safety Foundation. A number of new members joined the Innovation Consortium to take advantage of opportunities to save time, lives and money with scientifically sound and cost effective approaches to fleet management tools, vehicles and personnel and equipment.


See you at the TRB and NAEMSP meetings in Jaunary 2014

Do go to the INDEMO project Medstartr page and back the INDEMO project and get your special rewards.


Best regards,

Nadine Levick MD, MPH
Research Director,
EMS Safety Foundation




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