Emergency
Medical Service Listservers
Subscribing
to the EMS List Servers
There's a new way to subscribe to
the Alaska EMS List Servers. Just follow the links below to
add your name to the list server:
Several "list servers"
are on-line for line for use by emergency medical services personnel.
A list server allows individuals who have internet e-mail accounts
to subscribe to a particular list. After subscribing to a list,
new mail in that list is automatically echoed to the user's internet
mail account. The FEMA list server, for example, distributes disaster
situation reports to subscribers resulting in near real time notification
of interested parties.
There are many potential uses for
this service. We can, for example, send training schedules, public
notices, weekly reports, questionnaires, and other information to
subscribers. Subscribers could include physicians, regions, subregions,
EMS and fire services, and any other internet user. Whether there
are 10 users or 1,000, the list server will handle the message distribution
automatically.
Individuals and agencies providing
EMS and Fire service training in Alaska are encouraged to use the
ak-ems list server to advertise courses. The course announcements
should be brief, and should contain the dates, times, locations,
cost, prerequisites, and registration procedures, as well as other
relevant pieces of information.
As a general rule, an individual
must be a member of a list to distribute mail through the
list. This prevents the group from receiving "spam"
messages.
Alaska
EMS Program Internet Lists - Summary
A list
of national list servers can be
found at the site of the National Center for Emergency Medicine
Informatics (NCEMI). The
page allows easy subscription to several of the major national lists. |
