Case Study: Dane County Emergency Management strengthens provider wellness and reduces overdoses with ImageTrend

Dane County EMS Uses Data to Strengthen Provider Wellness and Combat the Opioid Epidemic

The Dane County Emergency Management EMS Division, serving a large population of nearly 588,000 residents, faced two major challenges: supporting the mental health of its first responders and combating the community's opioid overdose epidemic. They partnered with ImageTrend and leveraged its ImageTrend Elite system and Continuum alerts to find data-driven solutions to these complex problems.

Using ImageTrend's data tools, Dane County built real-time notification monitors to connect crews with mental health resources and used geocoding to strategically place harm reduction vending machines. The results were significant, including a 20% reduction in EMS responses to suspected overdoses and rapid support for providers triggered by over 1,300 alerts. This data-centric approach from ImageTrend fostered stronger collaboration and created a measurable positive impact on both provider and community wellbeing.

Dane County Emergency Management

Eric Anderson

EMS Data Analyst and Site Administrator