. . . Artificial intelligence is already being used today in Israel to save lives by two of the country’s three emergency services, the Israel Fire and Rescue Authority and Magen David Adom, which oversees emergency medical response.
“There’s no question that AI is enabling MDA and the Fire Service to respond more quickly to emergencies, arrive to the scene better informed about the incident, and with the most appropriate resources,” said Ido Rosenblat, director of Magen David Adom’s technology division, which developed both MDA’s and the Fire and Rescue Authority’s dispatch systems.
The technology team at MDA also created an AI-driven interconnect that links both organizations’ dispatch systems to the police and IDF.
“If an emergency requires fire personnel, MDA, and the police — those agencies will be dispatched automatically through AI regardless of which of the agencies initially receives the call,” Rosenblat said.
As a result, if Magen David Adom receives a call about a person injured in a shooting, police will simultaneously be dispatched to the scene, along with MDA’s paramedics and ambulances, without MDA actually having to call the police.
For calls involving either MDA or the Fire and Rescue Authority, AI will also determine the ambulances’ and fire trucks’ routes to the emergency, choosing the quickest ways there based on real-time traffic data. . . .
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