Summary: More heroin cases, EMS dental calls rising, Tattoo cover up rules examined, and we’ll look at what’s going on with community paramedic or mobile integrated healthcare programs in Travis County, Texas. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast.<br> <a href="http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PC-border-cmyk.jpg"></a>The MedicCast is a proud member of the <a title="ProMed Network site" href="http://promednetwork.com/" target="_blank">ProMed Podcast Network</a>.<br> This episode is sponsored in part by the <a href="http://physio-control.com" target="_blank">Physio-Control Corporation</a> and by <a title="Med Math Book" href="http://medmathsimplified.com" target="_blank">Med Math Simplified</a>. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on <a title="Amazon Med Math Simplified link" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=med%20math%20simplified&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=med%20mat%2Caps%2C169&tag=themediccastp-20&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&linkId=PEOAZ4JTRW3TJGOA">Amazon.com</a>.<br> MedicCast Episode 444<br> Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at what one group of public safety employees are doing about their system’s tattoo cover-up rules.<br> Then in this week’s special tip segment from EMS Today 2015 in Baltimore, we chat with Dr. Paul Hinchey about what the team in Travis County, Texas is doing to push forward with their initiatives in mobile integrated healthcare, also called community paramedic programs. Are they doing something you could replicate in your system? We’ll find out later in the show after the news.<br> Contact the MedicCast<br> If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at <a title="email link" href="mailto:podmedic@mac.com">podmedic@mac.com</a>. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the <a title="MedicCast Android App" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.mediccast.android.mc" rel="nofollow">free MedicCast app from the Google play store</a>. Get the <a title="iOS App for the MedicCast" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id645668811?mt=8" rel="nofollow">free MedicCast EMS app for iOS</a>.<br> —————————-<br> EMS News<br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/07/us-usa-heroin-abuse-idUSKCN0PH1YQ20150707">Heroin Abuse Cases On the Rise</a><br> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/29/er-dental-visits/29492599/">ER and Emergency Dental Calls Increasing</a><br> <a href="http://www.emsworld.com/news/14026584/chicago-police-officers-sue-over-tattoo-cover-up-rule">Are Tattoo Cover-up Rules Legal or Fair?</a><br> —-<br> Tip of the Week: Mobile Integrated Healthcare in Travis County, Texas<br> <a href="http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/EMSToday-Hinchey-screenshot.png"></a><a href="http://emsgarage.com" target="_blank">EMS Garage</a> host Chris Montera, the Geekymedic, chatted with Dr. Paul Hinchey, Andy Hoffmeister and Laura Slocum about Mobile Integrated Healthcare systems. They discuss how Austin/Travis County, Texas EMS worked to create a public health community paramedic program to identify and treat those patients whose needs were not being met by standard EMS. Thanks again to Physio-Control, EMS Today and JEMS for having our podcast studio in their exhibit hall at the EMS Today conference earlier this year.<br> A special thanks again to EMS Today and especially to Physio-Control for sponsoring our podcast studio at the EMS Today conference this year.<br>
