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March 2013 - St John Ambulance Northern Territory (NT) joins Siren's worldwide ePCR user community. Australian Ambulance Service Provider, St John Ambulance (NT) Inc, has signed a four-year contract to implement the Siren ePCR system and further support the delivery of ambulance services across the Northern Territory. Siren ePCR will replace SJA NT’s paper-based system and is expected to produce over 50,000 electronic patient care records each year.

February 2013 - Brazil set to launch first electronic patient care reporting solution.

Medusa Medical Technologies announced today that São Paulo SAMU 192 service, the largest agency in the federal SAMU EMS Program in Brazil, will be deploying its electronic patient care reporting software, Siren ePCR Suite, this month. The city of São Paulo will deploy Siren to electronically record all the EMS calls for its 11,000,000 population.

January 2013 - Alberta Health Services wins People's Choice Award for EMS Provincial ePCR Rollout. Alberta Health Services (AHS) was recently awarded Project Management Institute's prestigious People's Choice Award for their on-time and under budget provincial ePCR rollout of Siren ePCR Suite.

The successful implementation of the provincial ePCR project was a significant milestone for AHS as the first clinical system to be implemented provincially in Alberta Health Services.

April 2012 - EMSA improves billing record using Siren ePCR Suite. Siren ePCR Suite's accurate data capture helps EMSA improve their billing system, with only 0.2% of its accounts going to small claims court.

While 40-80% of medical bills contain errors, implementing a thoughtfully designed ePCR system such as Siren can result in exceptional numbers such as EMSA's.

March 2012 - Indianapolis EMS Recognized for Innovative Use of IT in the Pre-Hospital Setting. Medusa would like to congratulate Indianapolis EMS upon their selection as an International Data Group (IDG) 2012 Computerworld Honors Laureate.

We are proud that Siren forms an integral part of Indianapolis' ever-advancing use of health information technology.

March 2012 - IBM Business Analytics Webinar: Improve patient outcomes using predictive analytics. For EMS agencies using, or interested in the benefits of, IBM Business Analytics (a.k.a. Cognos), this upcoming webinar may be of interest.

November 2011- Outcome data needed to fill information gap

"the lack of so-called outcome data is starting to matter. There is little point in giving clinical commissioning groups the power to shop in an open market if they cannot do so intelligently,"

October 2011 - Siren integrates with Summary Care Reports web application.

September 2011- EMAS set to go-live with full scale rollout.

"England's 11 ambulance trusts were expected to replace their paper-based reporting systems with the electronic system as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.

The East Midlands ambulance service is understood to be the first to complete a full-scale implementation, using mobile technology and devices."

January 2011 - Medusa and STG in Chile. Medusa and Chilean partner Southern Technology Group (STG) were recently featured in an article published in Revista Gerencia, Chile's premiere IT magazine. The article features Marcelo Peñailillo, STG Division Manager of Health and Medusa's own Natalia Melo, Senior Business Development Manager, as they discuss implementation expertise, health integration and providing electronic healthcare solutions to Chile.

October 2010 - England's Northeast Ambulance Service goes live with Siren ePCR.

November 2009 - The World's First Electronic Link to MedicAlert Records. For the first time, paramedics can access MedicAlert health records using Siren ePCR Suite. Access to this information gives paramedics a summary of the patient's medical history, allergies, and existing conditions. Knowing this information, paramedics can alter their treatment plan to best suit the patient's needs.

October 2009 - FirstResponder.gov features Medusa's Regenstrief interface in their October 2009 R-Tech Newsletter of First Responder technologies.

July 2009 - Medusa Medical Technologies integrates Siren ePCR Suite with the Regenstrief Institute. Regenstrief is an Indiana-based research facility that has developed an external records management system with over 45 years worth of patient informaiton from multiple hospitals and clinics throughout central Indiana.

June 2009 - Siren ePCR Suite becomes an integral part of Philips Healthcare's Connected Care solution for ALS healthcare management.
Watch the video below for more information. You will need Windows Media Player to view the video.

June 2009 - Medusa Medical Technologies is awarded the Jems Hot Products 2009 Award for the new Philips Monitor/Defibrillator interface.

Find more videos like this on JEMS Connect - EMS Emergency Medical Services

January 2009 - Medusa Medical Technologies Announces Integration of Siren ePCR Suite with Philips HeartStart MRx Monitor/Defibrillator.
Medusa Medical Technologies Inc. (Medusa) announced today that its flagship electronic patient care reporting software, the Siren ePCR Suite, now has an interface with the Philips HeartStart MRx monitor / defibrillator. This integrated solution is available worldwide and enables an easier workflow for patient care and reporting in the pre-hospital setting.

December 2009 - The Intern's Metaphor on: Siren Data Analytics. When I was so new to the company that the new car smell hadn't worn off me yet, I asked one of the people working on it, "how would you explain a data cube for Data Analytics?"

She smiled and said, "That's what we've been trying to figure out for the past few months."

September 2009 - Is There Life Beyond Enterprise Grade?. The answer is yes. But I warn you the answer may result in Shock and Awe for your brain. Are you ready?! Nation Grade. There I said it. It's out there. There is no taking it back. The Genie is out of the bottle.

November 2009 - Dream the Future. Live the Dream. EMS has come a long way from its early days where the motto was "Hire the fastest drivers and have them put the pedal to the metal!" Experience over the last 50 years has shown us that a mixture of urgency and on-scene treatment produce the best results in most cases. So what will people say 50 years from now about our "archaic" solutions in the 21st century?

May 2009 - This Just In From Wishard: The following is an e-mail from Wishard EMS, Indianapolis, italics added for clarification purposes:

As of 08:55 this morning (May 6th) Indy has taken another huge step forward in electronic patient healthcare. A successful test was done using the Siren ePCR system and the INPC (Indiana Network for Patient Care) system. A report from INPC was generated and attached to the patient's pre-hospital report.

Thank you to everyone for working so hard on this.

Tom Arkins
Wishard EMS

May 2009 - Congratulations, York! Medusa Medical would like to congratulate the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, on going live with their new Siren ePCR system! Today!

After a year of preparation and working with Medusa's deployment team, York will see its first day of live-data production on the first phase of rollout. ePCRs will be recorded in a Medusa-customized template that will match Ontario's specific Ambulance Care Report template.

September 2008 - "Big T" Technologies. I figured I would start this article off with something grandiose - I thought I would coin my own terminology!

The little hamster in my brain started to run on the treadmill and out popped the idea of Big T Technology. Unfortunately, a Google search showed me that the hamsters in other people's brains already came up with this terminology. The article "Big T" Technology vs. technology" is a prime example of other hamster activity.

August 2008 - E-Health Strategies. I've been reading through a number of different eHealth Strategies from around the world and have come to this conclusion: albeit unusual, politicians and governments of different countries seem to agree on how eHealth can benefit the patient and on how to move the health of the nations forward over the next ten years.

July 2008 - Stakeholder Communication . Anyone who has ever read a management book knows that you need to have "effective stakeholder communication". The trick is figuring out what that really means and how to accomplish it!

The NHS in England is running what many reckon is the largest civilian IT project in the world: The National Programme for IT (NPfIT). It is very ambitious. It will link all health care providers into one seamless IT system. Communicating how this system will work and what the benefits will be is a daunting task and the NHS has published a YouTube video that does a great job of doing just that. Click here to view the video.

June 2008 - Predictions for a Very IT Future. I just read Gartner's Gartner Predicts 2007 report and even though it is based upon 2006 data, it has some interesting insights.