Predicting an Emergency??

[Niftymedi911]

Prediciting an Emergency

I wanted to also point out that our agency is the first north american agency to ultilize both SIREN predict and SIREN Live products.

Here's the Companies website:

Optima Corp

[Eydawn]

Interesting. It's basically a statistics analyzer that evaluates the probability of a new call location based on past calls. It will be very interesting to see how well it actually works, since even the slightest demographic or geographic change can completely change how accurate the model is...

I'd have liked the article better if it hadn't been written by a 6th grader... no less than 4 very distracting problems in there, but the idea of the module is cool.

Wendy

CO EMT-B

[paramedicmike]

Isn't this just another name for SSM? Haven't these types of "prediction" software packages been shown to be totally unreliable and ineffective?

-be safe

[CTXMEDIC]

stupid. i can do the same thing with a map on a wall and colored pushpins.

[reaper]

Yes, it is basically the same type of software that has been pushed for years for SSM. They don't work very well. Anyone that has worked a system long enough can tell you where the majority of your calls will be and when they will be there.

[CTXMEDIC]

SSM rocks if you have no desire to retain your employees.

[BEorP]

Useless. There is no evidence to support that this type of system is beneficial.

[CTXMEDIC]

Useless. There is no evidence to support that this type of system is beneficial.

tell that to my last bosses. they will swear up and down that having a staffed truck parked on the side of the road for 24hrs in predetermined 'hotspots' will reduce our response time. in some instances they are correct but is that 30 seconds worth screwing your crews? when one truck gets a call we ALL move. i spent ALL DAY LONG on a 24 hour shift running up and down the freeway, 20 miles everytime we had to move. alot of times we'd be pulling into our quarters and have to run right back down the freeway 20 miles. by the time we got there, the truck that was on the call had transported and was available again. so back we went. im here to tell you that when its pouring rain, youve been running all day and then you have to do this SH!T all night long, it SUCKS! in ONE shift we logged over 300miles JUST POSTING!

SSM BLOWS a fat one.

Just my opinion...

[reaper]

There is nothing wrong with SSM, if it is run correctly. Your bosses have no clue what they are doing. You can not run SSM with 24 hr shifts. It has to be 12 hrs or less, to combat fatigue.

If it is run correctly you will improve response times by 2-3 minutes. Moving trucks constantly and reposting with every call is not how SSM is designed to work. Most systems set themselves up for failure from the start. They have no idea what they are doing and are to ignorant to take advise. They all learn in the long run, but that may be after they have run off half their staff!

[CTXMEDIC]

There is nothing wrong with SSM, if it is run correctly. Your bosses have no clue what they are doing. You can not run SSM with 24 hr shifts. It has to be 12 hrs or less, to combat fatigue.

If it is run correctly you will improve response times by 2-3 minutes. Moving trucks constantly and reposting with every call is not how SSM is designed to work. Most systems set themselves up for failure from the start. They have no idea what they are doing and are to ignorant to take advise. They all learn in the long run, but that may be after they have run off half their staff!

well parastar are the tools that rammed that down our throats. they were hired to consult and ended up running off half of the staff. that half formed their own company. what a friggin nightmare parastar/community EMS was...

we werent allowed to stray more than a mile from our posting assignments. at one point i had 2 posts in my district that were EXACTLEY a mile apart. we'd just call at post and not even move, it was ridiculous.

PS, theyre my EX bosses. i have since moved up in the world.