The Louisiana Rural Ambulance Alliance recently gave St. Tammany Fire Protection District 4 eight new rugged Panasonic "Toughbook" tablets, each equipped with the hardware and software needed for EMTs to quickly collect and share patient data from the field and enroute to hospitals, all in hopes of improving patient outcomes. The equipment will be part of the Electronic Rural Health Information Technology (E-RHIT) Network established five years ago to help in areas of rural Louisiana where because of limited internet services, ambulance services are often unable to connect and relay medical information to the destination facility in a timely way. The network addresses this need by providing these new tablets where needed to make sure that EMTs can have mobile electronic reporting on site and during patient transportation to designated healthcare facilities.