The American Journal of Healthcare Strategy

Healthcare contributes approximately eight percent of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions (Eckelman et al., 2020). The resource-intensive nature of hospitals often conflicts with the purpose to heal, creating unprecedented harm to patients, staff, and surrounding communities. The C6 Framework, which stands for Connect, Collect, Combat, Correct, Communicate, and Clear, offers a person-centered approach to integrating climate action and resilience into healthcare strategies.

EMS has been an underutilized strategic asset in healthcare systems since its inception in the 1960s. Similarly, the use of artificial intelligence has sparked controversy recently over its role in society and healthcare, specifically whether AI can be used to improve outcomes or streamline operations. EMS has an opportunity as a profession to capitalize on the advantages that AI can offer us in this new technological landscape. AI now provides practical levers for dispatch triage, dynamic deployment, documentation automation, and indeed clinical decision support, all of which can serve to reduce costs per unit, reduce response times, and improve downstream outcomes that will show hospital executives the true value of EMS (Weidman et al., 2025).