Eli Beer | Innovative Emergency Care | Talks at Google

Eli Beer discusses the unique organization of United Hatzalah, its founding, the challenges involved in operating it and working with authorities, and the impact it has been able to achieve. United Hatzalah is a distributed network of medics dispatched in the case of medical emergencies, leveraging mobile phones and GPS to dispatch nearby volunteers.
Eli Beer is a social entrepreneur and the President and Founder of United Hatzalah of Israel. After witnessing a bus bombing in Jerusalem as he was walking home from school at the age of six, Eli was inspired by this traumatic experience to pursue a career that would allow him to save lives. He became a certified EMT at 15 and began volunteering on an ambulance in order to follow his life’s mission. What he found, though, was that when someone needed fast medical attention, unfortunately, the ambulance was unable to arrive in time due to traffic, congestion, and the distance from which the ambulance was dispatched.
Eli sought out to fix this widespread and urgent problem. Although just a teenager, Beer gathered a group of like-minded EMTs with a passion for saving lives to listen to police scanners and rush to the scene when medical help was needed in their neighborhood. The initiative eventually became Hatzalah (meaning “rescue” in Hebrew). In 2006 Eli changed the name of the organization to United Hatzalah to represent the partnership of Jewish, Muslim, Druze and Christian volunteers from all religious spectrums working together in order to save lives. Since then, United Hatzalah has been at the forefront of medical innovation. Its fleet of vehicles, including the Ambucycle, a motorcycle that has all the medical equipment of an ambulance aside from a stretcher, allows the EMT to reach the patient in an average of 90 seconds in Jerusalem, and 3 minutes across Israel. In 2006, Beer invented “Moskowitz Life Compass,” which is the most advanced location technology, able to locate the five closest EMS responders within 3 seconds of the emergency. In over twenty-five years, the organization has grown to more than 6,000 volunteers who unite together to save lives, regardless of race or religion. Eli’s vision is to bring this life saving model across the world. In 2015, Beer expanded internationally with the establishment of branches in South America and other countries, including “United Rescue” in Jersey City, USA, where the response time was reduced to just two minutes and thirty-five seconds.
For his tireless work, Eli has received various recognitions and awards, including being named as Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Israel by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in 2010, receiving the Israel President Prize by President Shimon Peres for innovation and volunteering in 2011, becoming a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2012 selected by Queen Rania of Jordan, and being awarded the Victor J. Goldberg IIE Prize for Peace in the Middle East in 2013.
For more information on United Hatzalah, please visit israelrescue.org/.
For Googlers, please donate via go/israel-rescue and have your donations matched 100%.
Moderated by Abigail Posner.

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I am a member of CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) a volunteer community organized group. I admire your persistence in continuing to expand your concept. Thank you!

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[@dougwedel9484]

We have ladder fire trucks responding to medical emergencies in Toronto, Canada, too. I want to eliminate ladder trucks in the downtown area. It makes no sense. We have fire hoses on high floors of skyscrapers because the ladder trucks can't reach anyway. We need to have these fire hoses on the ground level. Firemen go by car or bicycle to the emergency and fight fires with the equipment there.

[@dougwedel9484]

The Bike Scouts in the Philippines uses bicycles to reach people during emergencies. Please consider using bicycles not just go by foot or with motorcycles. Bicycles get there fast and they never run out of fuel.

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We have bikes and Electric bikes.

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@@eyammer Bike Scouts might be willing to collaborate with you.

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