From pre-contract planning through go-live and beyond — built on the operational reality of EMS.
What's at stake: An ePCR transition touches every call your agency runs. Compliance deadlines don't move. State submissions can't fail mid-transition. Staff who don't adopt the new system will cost you documentation quality for years.
ePCR transitions are among the most consequential technology projects an EMS agency undertakes. I bring product ownership experience from both sides of the table — as the field clinician who lived through a bad implementation and as the informatics manager who led a successful one.
I can lead or support the entire lifecycle: pre-contract advisory, requirements gathering, user story development, vendor coordination, data migration planning, training, UAT, go-live, and post-launch optimization.
Pre-Contract Advisory
Requirements & User Stories
Data Migration Planning
Vendor Coordination
Training Development
Acceptance Testing
Go-Live & Hypercare
Post-Launch Optimization
What's at stake: CAD transitions affect every dispatch decision your agency makes. There is no maintenance window for dispatch. Every go-live decision carries direct operational risk.
CAD system implementations are uniquely dangerous because the system being replaced is mission-critical 24/7. I've been through a full CAD implementation as the informatics lead: test environment setup, failover testing, CAD-to-ePCR integration validation, crew training, and final cutover coordination.
I understand both the technical integration points and the operational dependencies that most project managers miss.
Site Assessment
Requirements Mapping
Integration Planning
Test Environment
Failover & Load Testing
Crew Training
Cutover Coordination
Hypercare Period
What's at stake: A NEMSIS submission failure during a vendor transition is a compliance event. State agencies don't grant extensions because your new vendor had mapping issues.
I design and build reporting infrastructure that survives vendor transitions without a submission gap — NEMSIS 3.x pipelines, state compliance reporting, clinical dashboards, and operational metrics. I've built these systems in ImageTrend Report Writer, ESO Insights, SQL, Python, Tableau, and Power BI, and I've integrated FirstWatch and FirstPass into live QA workflows.
Your ePCR, CAD, and quality data contain answers your agency hasn't asked for yet. I build the infrastructure to surface them — and keep them current as regulations evolve.
What's at stake: A QA program that only reacts to bad outcomes isn't quality improvement — it's incident review. Without a structured measurement cycle, your Medical Director loses clinical visibility, NEMSQA measures go untracked, and the agency can't prove its care is getting better.
A real quality program is a cycle, not a binder. I build data-driven QA/QI systems that move past random chart audits to structured, measure-based clinical review — aligned with NEMSQA national measures and the metrics your Medical Director and state regulators actually expect.
Every initiative I run follows the Plan–Do–Study–Act cycle: define what good care looks like, build the measurement into your existing platforms, study what the data shows, then act on it.
Plan
Define the measure, target, and what good care looks like
Do
Build measurement into your ePCR and QA platforms
Study
Analyze performance against NEMSQA measures and benchmarks
Act
Close gaps with targeted training, protocol, or documentation change
Then the cycle repeats — each pass tightening clinical performance against the measures that matter, and producing the compliance documentation regulators expect as a byproduct, not a fire drill.
Staff adoption determines whether your technology investment pays off. The most sophisticated ePCR on the market becomes a liability if crews document around it — and that pattern, once established, is very hard to break.
I develop role-appropriate training built around how paramedics actually work a call. Field crew documentation guides, supervisor QA workflows, leadership dashboards — delivered on-site, remotely, or hybrid, with structured follow-up to catch adoption issues early.
What's at stake: EMS projects fail quietly. Scope creeps, the grant deadline slips, the steering committee loses interest, and the initiative dies without anyone deciding to kill it. A project without a manager isn't lean — it's unowned.
Not every EMS initiative is a technology transition. POCUS rollouts, Mobile Integrated Healthcare and community paramedicine launches, accreditation efforts, and grant-funded programs all need the same thing: someone accountable for scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholders from kickoff to close.
I'm PMP-trained and I've run EMS projects on both the clinical and operational sides, including standing up a Mobile Integrated Healthcare program. I bring formal project management discipline without the corporate-consultant disconnect — charters, work breakdown, risk registers, and steering-committee reporting, applied by someone who knows what a 2 a.m. transfer actually involves.
Initiating
Charter, scope, and stakeholder identification
Planning
Work breakdown, schedule, budget, and risk register
Executing
Coordinate the team and deliver the work
Monitoring & Controlling
Track scope, schedule, and risk against the plan
Closing
Handoff, lessons learned, and sustainment
I don't accept referral fees from vendors. I have no preferred platform partnerships. My recommendations are based solely on what I've seen work and fail in real EMS operations. When you hire Strada EMS Consulting, I represent your agency's interests — in contract negotiations, in requirements sessions, and at every go-live decision point. That's the only way this works.
Defined scope, timeline, and deliverables for a specific initiative. Most ePCR and CAD projects run 6–18 months.
Regular hours each month for sustained analytics support, compliance monitoring, or a part-time informatics function.
A structured review of your systems, vendor contract, or technology roadmap — delivered as a written report.
The best time is before you've signed the vendor contract. The second-best time is right now.