Adaptive Health Management Information Systems: Concepts, Cases, & Practical Applications, 3rd Edition
by Joseph Tan, Fay Cobb Payton
CASE 1
Emergency Medical Transportation Resource Deployment
Homer H. Schmitz
Editor’s Note: Case 1 uses “AA” as a pseudonym for the company being discussed. It illustrates the planning, design, and use of a computerized dispatch system to enhance the efficiency and productivity of an emergency medical transportation (EMT) provider in terms of resource deployment for nonemergency response. According to Professor Schmitz, any vehicle originally assigned for nonemergency use may suddenly be diverted for emergency use, which makes non-emergency response a very important resource optimization challenge faced by AA, which was, at the time the case was written, a not-for-profit EMT company operating in the greater St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. ...
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