2021 TrekMedics International Update

Jason Friesen, MPH, EMT-P from TrekMedics.org joins disaster podcast co-hosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis on today’s episode. Jason stops by to share an update of his organization’s innovative mobile phone software and how it continues to help people around the world provide emergency services to their communities without 1st world infrastructure.

Trek Medics International is a 501c3-registered nongovernmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving emergency medical systems in communities across the globe without reliable access to emergency care through innovative mobile phone technologies.

Beacon Emergency Dispatch is a do-it-yourself computer-aided dispatch (CAD) platform that alerts, tracks and coordinates emergency responders using any mobile phone, with or without Internet. Beacon’s scalable design and easy-to-use interface allows any organization to design, test, launch and be ready to scale their own emergency dispatching system in 30 minutes or less.

Paragon Brings “The Experience”

Paragon Medical Education Group specializes in bringing what they call “The Experience” to jurisdictions around the country. They bring together police, fire, EMS, and hospital teams to train together and learn what to expect from each diverse group in the response team so that each knows what to expect from the other and how to back the other groups up. Visit Paragon’s site at ParagonMedicalGroup.com for more information on how this can be brought into your system.