Edward Browne This is Me

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1. 1. www.healthdatamanagement.com

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   Published on: 9/25/2007   Last Visited: 9/25/2007

   For example, in Stamford, Conn., ambulance crews simply receive patient information from dispatchers using text messages on cell phones, says Edward Browne, director of operations at Stamford EMS. Crews are notified of a call via the radio, but additional patient demographic information is sent by text message.
   
   Stamford has six ambulances and seven invalid coaches, which make 100 to 110 calls a day, Browne says. Dispatchers keep track of the units using computer-aided dispatching software from Briarcliff, N.Y.-based Digitech Computer Inc. The software color-codes the units displayed on computer monitors depending on what they are doing, such as, going to lunch or on the way to the scene. "It's simple, and it's graphic. If you have a call, the dispatched unit starts flashing. It makes the dispatchers lives easier," Browne says.
   
   Digitech also provides ambulance-billing services and doesn't charge for use of the dispatching system. Instead, the vendor handles the bill collection for the jurisdictions and keeps a percentage of each bill. Buying a new computer-aided dispatching system alone would have cost about $40,000, Browne says. And Digitech's collection activity, which has been in use for more than two years, has led to increased revenue, he adds.

2. 2. Contacts

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   Published on: 1/28/2006   Last Visited: 1/28/2006

   Edward Browne Director of Operations

3. 3. The Advocate - Norwalk Hospital to hire EMTs

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   Published on: 3/5/2003   Last Visited: 3/5/2003

   Edward Browne, director of Operations for Stamford Emergency Medical Services, which provides ambulance service to that city, said his private nonprofit organization has put EMTs in ambulances since 1992.
   
   "The level of service is the same. You still have a paramedic responding to the call. You are getting advanced life support either way," Browne said.
   
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