Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc.

09/05/2025

Thank you for the conversation! To be honest, this talk really gets into the weeks of the economics -- but isn't that where we need to go is we're missing the money TO SUPPORT CLINICAL EXCELLENCE, and trying to find it?

09/05/2025

Let's assume that PWW Advisory Group is 100% correct with their documentation survey. (https://www.pwwag.com/content/25EMSDocSurv)

➽ According to the survey, "17% of Billers and RCM Personnel feel that their agency’s documentation is below average."

➽ PWW|AG *also* says "this gap between documentation importance and quality not only raises concerns about clinical accuracy and continuity of care, but it can also directly affect reimbursement."

➽ We know that Mobile Medical services -- Fire, EMS, IFT, Critical Care (Ground & Air), and CP/Mobile Integrated Health -- are leaving BILLIONS of dollars on the table in terms of non-reimbursement.

HERE'S THE QUESTION:

➽ Is there a so-obvious-you-can't-unsee-it relationship between "we use the same data system as so many others" and "we have the same financial problems as so many others"?

➽ Put a second way: "Could changing one's charting system in-and-of-itself turn around our agency's finances?"

Ready to turn your ePCR into a REVENUE / PROFIT CENTER -- not a unavoidable cost or a "necessary evil"? Ready to maximize your technology ROI *AND* keep your Responders safe and healthy -- reducing stigma to ZERO while protecting against -- and tracking your clinical impact over time (to get you paid even more, e.g., Community Paramedicine)? Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc. can get you better compensated for your work AND reduce costs across your operation.

http://www.beyondlucid.com

01/28/2025

DEAR COLLEAGUES 🚑 🚒 🚓 🚁 🏥 --

I'm getting a number of questions regarding our view on the implications of the President's latest Executive Orders with respect to the Safe Streets & Roads for All (SS4A) program and other federal funding opportunities. To assist with the conversation, I have compiled some thoughts into the attached letter for your review. Please be advised that nothing in this letter should be construed as a political statement of any kind.

We can surely all agree that the business of government (at every level) is complicated; and as a longtime member of the media, I feel personally that there is in general too much noise happening everywhere now. It has become increasingly difficult for anyone—even those on the “inside”—to know what is real versus what is hype mixed with politics.

Over the past few months, I have received a few (much appreciated!) comments that people follow my social media posts for a sense of what's “real” across the Mobile Medical ecosystem (i.e., Fire, Ambulance, Critical Care, CP/MIH, and interoperability), especially to the extent that I try to tamp down the noise and focus on what we all need to know.

This week, of course, the topic of concern is President Trump's Executive Order (EO) regarding federal financial programs, including grants and loans, presumably including the USDOT’s Safe Streets & Roads for All (SS4A) program. I certainly do not have a crystal ball so please be advised that what you will read below is my opinion based on information that I have received through numerous discussions with informed experts. However, it should not be taken as fact (no one outside the Executive Office of the President knows exactly what will happen until it does). The attached letter is why I see meaningful cause for optimism.

No one on the outside knows exactly what to expect. However, the Beyond Lucid Technologies team is proceeding apace, confident that excellent programs like SS4A will continue, even if they look a little different under a new administration…but we anticipated that all along. Please reach out with any questions, thoughts or concerns; and do forward this letter to anyone it could help.
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12/28/2024

Our CEO, Jonathon Feit, has been invited to speak at a gathering being convened in Washington, D.C., next month. The topic is: " and : Knowing the Health Needs of the Humans Who Were Affected by a Crash." Sadly, the event overlaps with National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP), but if you don't plan to be in San Diego, come to the Capital instead.

We're inviting friends and colleagues from -- and organizations focused on , and interoperability -- to join the discussion.

Your voices are imperative to ensuring visibility regarding the medical contributors to vehicle crashes, and the ability to honor patients' needs and wishes, at their side, in real-time, in the field. What if you could not only administer whole blood at the scene, for example, but knew WHICH TYPE of blood; or if the patient might not want to receive blood (e.g., for religious reasons); or if the patient needs more than just blood -- e.g., clotting factors due to hemophilia. Let's ask the hard questions. WE CAN SOLVE THEM TOGETHER.

Thank you for all that you do.

Agenda 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM: Welcome and Opening Remarks    (Dr. Matthew Romoser)     2:10 PM – 2:50 PM: Attendee Introductions (In-Person)     Break        3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: The Extrication in Trauma Project (Dr. Tim Nutbeam, IMPACT Research Centre)     ...

11/29/2024

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10/31/2024

Today is Halloween. Tomorrow is the Dead of the Day. Yesterday, I received a package from Tabitha Boyle containing memories -- earned, deserved, and treasured -- from our late friend and colleague Michael Touchstone (Julie Touchstone). Yesterday, a dear old friend (Erik Bresocnik) celebrated the birthday-in-Heaven of his daughter -- I'm not sure he understands the scale of impact that *she* has had, but I pray that someday he will. (As I write these words, I cannot help but sigh and cry and think of my childhood friends Jeremy Weiner and his brother Marc, who was all light even to the end.) To quote my friend (and esteemed editor) Jeff Frankel, this piece is "about the people who shaped" us -- and it's not always the ones we expect, or that we even know the best or the longest, or who we have the pleasure of speaking with regularly.

🚒 🚑 🚓 🚁 🏥 is a HARD business -- from the front office to the back, from the field to the tech -- but it is BY FAR THE MOST OPTIMISTIC PROFESSION I have ever encountered, and I love it so. Why? It's not about being a superhero, or riches, or fame, or quite frankly even sufficient respect. It is about impact, quiet and persistent. It is the human embodiment of the FAITH that showing up every day -- any time of day -- will make things BETTER. It is about gritting one's teeth and saying (as my friend Josh Nultemeier once did), even when the money makes absolutely no sense: "But...if we don't show up, someone could get hurt."

In this piece, I reflect a bit on the impact that that ethos had on me, going back to Baxter Larmon, and Mark Wittman, and Bruce Graham, and Mike, and there are so many more than deserve a mention (unfortunately they're not all on social media). This is more than the "Why" -- with a nod to Simon Sinek, who calls himself an "optimist" as well -- this is about what the why DID, and DOES, and WILL DO. And you don't necessarily even see it coming, but it happened. Sometimes it hurt -- a LOT -- at the time. Sometime it was pain and questioning.

But the carrom that is your life banged into the carrom of someone else's life -- whether by accident or by destiny I'll leave to clergy to decide (Rabbi Wolpe) -- but I promise you, whatever you wonder on a daily basis, or how short or long the sum of your days turn out to be, you MATTER. You, my friend, changed the whole world and perhaps didn't even realize it. Happy Halloween. Feliz Dia De Los Mu***os. And please, hug your loved ones. You never know when that day will come that you will be sitting alongside them -- and yet, they cannot (directly) see you. They will see you again... but not yet. 🚒 🚑 🚓 🚁 🏥

Jonathon S. Feit reflects on personal experiences with loss and the lasting influence of departed loved ones.

10/28/2024

Based on figures from the Advisory Board, COMMUNITY PARAMEDICINE PROGRAMS should be able to EARN the average hospital ~$19,400,000

10/15/2024

“I wanted to take an opportunity and tell you guys about the amazing experience we had at Beyond Lucid's Unconference. The informal nature of how this conference was conducted created unprecedented opportunities for us to network and make new friends." -- Henry Lewis, South Carolina EMS Association

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We have just a handful of seats left for the 2024 Mobile Medicine Innovation Roundtable (MMIR 2024), our profession's original unconference, taking place from December 8-11 at the Ojai Valley Inn. Given the caliber of registrants to date, we're thrilled for leadership talks on the topics below and more. Every attendee is also a presenter, so come teach and learn from one another, in a gorgeous setting with fabulous food.

-- Federal priorities for Fire & EMS;
-- Emergency planning for schools;
-- Health information exchange;
-- Corporate law and revenue cycle;
-- Pediatric palliative care and advance care planning;
-- Perspectives from some of America's largest and most sophisticated Fire, EMS & CP/MIH services;
-- A.I. applied to Mobile Medicine (including Responder wellness, reunification, and disaster response).

REGISTER TODAY at https://www.beyondlucid.com/mmir-2024 -- PRICES RISE TOMORROW. Thanks!

10/15/2024

In a post on Linkedin (click through below), Fred Wilkins & Art Groux have said something that deserves to be shouted from the rooftops ESPECIALLY during the Civitas Networks for Health annual conference. Indeed, CIVITAS held a preconference w/r/t Mobile Medical data. How many services sat on the panel?

Both Art and Fred highlighted important REASONS to justify health information exchange. I'll go further: Collectively, we have not delved deeply enough into the "WHY" of HIE. Or even, the WHY "outcomes reporting"? (Joshua, Nance) Is there more to justify that goal than clinical QA? What if an HIE could keep you and your colleagues alive by PREVENTING SU***DE? Would you be more inclined to care about it?

Per Fred: "Many service providers seem to focus on just two reasons: 1) billing and 2) maintaining compliance by uploading data to state systems. This limited mindset is one of the factors preventing EMS and MIH from gaining full recognition as essential components of the broader healthcare system...Imagine if hospital nurses or doctors could view our transports as 'Mobile Medical Care' visits within their EMR, with all the relevant data seamlessly integrated into the fields they already use. Detailed provider assessments and treatment notes would present our work on par with any emergency room visit..."

That's the thing...They CAN. ALL of this is happening now -- you know who you are if you're doing it. Again, Fred writes: "Alternatively, we can continue faxing reports and be satisfied with a $325 payment for ALS care." We don't talk enough about the realities of economics in . We def do the "dog whistle" thing: people who have been around a while -- and are surely FANTASTIC clinicians, but when it comes to business... 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ -- pronounce "if only we had degrees" or "if only we had were in HHS," "if only this," "if only that." The MONEY side is not hard to explain. did it hundreds of years ago. John Nash did it more recently:

1. Demonstrate value, then
2. Cultivate scarcity. Finally,
3. Seek "the best of all suboptimal solutions."

#3 might warrant explanation, and I cannot wait until Art Boni's book latest comes out because I have a chapter in there that applies Nash Equilibria to . 😎 🤓 It distills down to this: PROVE YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WHOLE. PROVE YOUR VALUE. You may think you have, but *what makes you think that*?

As Michael Greeley put it on Nadav Shimoni's podcast: It's about ATTRIBUTION. Prove the impact, then, that YOU made the impact. Once you do that, they who want the impact AGAIN will be inclined to pay for it IF it can only be gained from YOU. Health information exchange is a vital tool in the toolbox for empowering others to attribute value to YOU. It helps GET YOU PAID and GET YOU PAID MORE. It's not imaginary nor proprietary. It's often funded by your tax dollars (that is, you're *already* paying for it...may as well use it!).

So why aren't you (yet)?

LINK TO THE ORIGINAL POST:

Let's talk about HIE or Health Information Exchange. Most of you reading this are in a state or area where your hospital uses an HIE. Why is it that hospitals…

10/13/2024

This may be geeky and in the weeds, but we're seeing too many and RFPs asking for single sign-on (SSO) capabilities out of a concern about convenience -- and that's fine -- but they fail to take into account the risks. Whether it's Active Directory or Okta or something else, the fewer gaps you allow, the more risk your agency or institution faces.

This is one of those areas where looking BEYOND simplicity can pay dividends -- ePCRs and RMSs aren't all the same, and choosing the prettiest and/or cheapest can mean cutting corners that cost your agency significantly more in the long run. 💫