{"podcast":{"title":"EMS One-Stop","slug":"ems-one-stop-5691901","podcast_index_feed_id":5691901,"rss_url":"https://emsonestop.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://emsonestop.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/14883931/EMS1-EMS-One-Stop-1400x1400-v2_wxftre.png","author":"emsonestop","episode_count":100,"summary":"In his EMS One-Stop podcast, Rob Lawrence breaks down takeaways from industry news and events, and tackles the challenges that face today’s EMS leadership. He is joined by a host of top names in EMS, who share their experience and insights into how to advance EMS. Rob Lawrence has been a leader in civilian and military EMS for over a quarter of a century. He is currently the director of strategic implementation for PRO EMS and its educational arm, Prodigy EMS, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and part-time executive director of the California Ambulance Association.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ems-one-stop-5691901"},"episode":{"title":"Hyper-turbulent times: EMS economics and AI guardrails with Matt Zavadsky and Dr. Shannon Gollnick","slug":"hyper-turbulent-times-ems-economics-and-ai-guardrails-with-matt-zavadsky-and-dr-shannon-gollnick","published_at":"2025-12-03T22:34:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ems-one-stop-5691901/hyper-turbulent-times-ems-economics-and-ai-guardrails-with-matt-zavadsky-and-dr-shannon-gollnick","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ems-one-stop-5691901","url":"https://emsonestop.podbean.com/e/hyper-turbulent-times-ems-economics-and-ai-guardrails-with-matt-zavadsky-and-dr-shannon-gollnick/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/3e49j2svvxsga87x/Matt_Z_Shannon_G_OneStop_Finalbqvdn.mp3","summary":"Recorded on the floor of the EMS|MC EMSpire Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, this episode of EMS One-Stop finds host Rob Lawrence in conversation with long-time collaborator and EMS advocate Matt Zavadsky. Fresh off the longest federal government shutdown in history, Rob and Matt unpack what the hyper-turbulence in Washington really means for EMS: suspended Medicare extenders, disrupted grant programs, agencies taking out loans just to meet payroll and training programs put on hold. They break down NAEMT’s flash poll on the shutdown’s impact, the promise of the Treatment in Place (TIP) legislation, and why associations “hunting as a pack” on Capitol Hill matters more than ever. Along the way, they spotlight EMSIntel.org as a national barometer of EMS funding, staffing and response time crises, and issue a clear call to action for providers, billers and leaders to use association tools to contact their members of Congress. | MORE: Government reopens: What EMS providers need to know right now In the second half, Rob is joined by Dr. Shannon Gollnick, paramedic, EMS leader and organizational psychologist, to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping EMS — right now. Shannon makes the case that AI is “not the future; it is the present,” and that agency leaders must urgently build literacy, policies and guardrails around its use. They dig into the difference between HIPAA-compliant, embedded AI in ePCR systems, and risky open tools like ChatGPT, touching on hallucinations, embedded code and emerging Medicare fraud-detection programs. | MORE: Artificial to augmented intelligence. How Dr. Shannon Gollnick wants EMS to work smarter, not harder Rob and Shannon talk about AI as a powerful but potentially dangerous tool — “like having a tiger” — and outline practi…","meta_description":"Recorded on the floor of the EMS|MC EMSpire Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, this episode of EMS One-Stop finds host Rob Lawrence in conversation…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1645,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ems-one-stop-5691901/episodes/hyper-turbulent-times-ems-economics-and-ai-guardrails-with-matt-zavadsky-and-dr-shannon-gollnick/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ems-one-stop-5691901/hyper-turbulent-times-ems-economics-and-ai-guardrails-with-matt-zavadsky-and-dr-shannon-gollnick.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}