The EMS Pulse: Ambulance cameras — safety tool or privacy risk?

The responses revealed a profession wrestling with competing priorities: protecting patient privacy, protecting providers from violence and false allegations, and determining where the line should be drawn. Patient privacy outweighs the benefitsFor many readers, the answer was simple: cameras have no place where patient care is delivered. Still another questioned whether ambulance cameras are really different from existing healthcare security systems. It’s really no different than body cameras ... “The PulseThe discussion shows EMS providers largely agree on the goals: protecting patients, protecting clinicians and maintaining trust. The challenge for EMS leaders will be balancing provider safety, patient privacy and public accountability in a way that earns the confidence of both crews and the communities they serve.