What Happened?
Knoxville, TN-based Priority Ambulance has Appointed Robbie Stone as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Based in Knoxville, Tenn., Priority Ambulance provides the highest level of clinical excellence in emergency and nonemergency medical care to the communities it serves. Throughout its national service area, approximately 2,000 highly trained paramedics and EMTs staff a fleet of approximately 400 state-of-the-art vehicles with the latest medical equipment and technology. Priority Ambulance`s community of companies operates under trusted local brands providing medical transport options in nine states. The Priority Ambulance company partners include Shoals Ambulance in Alabama; Maricopa Ambulance in Arizona; Puckett EMS in Georgia and Southeast Tennessee; Central EMS in Georgia; Seals Ambulance in Indiana; Kunkel Ambulance in Upstate New York; Trans Am Ambulance in western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania; Medshore Ambulance in South Carolina; and Priority Ambulance in East Tennessee. Priority Ambulance also serves Baptist Memorial Health Care facilities in West Tennessee and Mississippi under the Baptist brand.
About the Person
Robbie Stone oversees the information technology strategy and solutions for Priority Ambulance’s national ambulance and billing network. With more than 20 years of experience and innovation in the IT industry, Robbie specializes in implementing solutions that directly translate to a company’s growth and bottom-line.His diverse experience started in the U.S. Army where he made his first foray into the medical field as an operating room technician. After serving with the U.S. Army 302nd Field Hospital, Stone went on to provide technology solutions to the mining industry eventually landing in his current role managing technology systems for national ambulance operations. Robbie began his career as part of the Genesis Technologies Inc. team that designed the “Gentech System,” an innovative monitoring and tracking data system that was one of the first real-time systems used in the coal mining industry. In 2006, Robbie aided in the startup of Life Air, an air medical transport company serving communities in Ohio and Indiana. While at Life Air, Stone established a cloud-based system that centralized billing, dispatch and electronic patient care record systems; designed and built an FAA-approved air medical dispatch center; and implemented a central dispatching system. In 2011, Stone assisted with the sale of Life Air to Air Evac.nIn 2006, Robbie created his own IT and business consulting service for ambulance and public service companies. Over his career, Robbie has worked for such notable employers as Emerson Electric, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Xerox. He attended University of Southern Indiana, Indiana University, and Kaplan, where he studied communications and business administration. In his spare time, Robbie is a pilot and scuba instructor and enjoys sailing.
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