1. A method for gesture recognition in an emergency response environment, the method comprising: receiving visual information about at least a portion of a body of a caregiver providing care for a patient from at least one sensor, wherein the caregiver is an emergency medical services provider; maintaining or creating an emergency encounter record for the patient; monitoring the visual information to determine movements of the at least the portion of the body of the caregiver; recognizing an occurrence of a gesture based on the movements of the at least the portion of the body of the caregiver; determining that the gesture belongs to one gesture type of a plurality of gesture types; and recording an entry comprising a physiological parameter of the patient in the emergency encounter record based on the occurrence of the gesture, wherein the entry recorded depends on the determined gesture type, and the entry comprises at least one of a heart rate, a blood pressure, an electrocardiograph (ECG), a temperature, a respiration rate, a blood oxygen level, an end-tidal carbon dioxide level, a pulmonary function, a blood glucose level, and a weight; wherein the emergency response environment is an emergency response vehicle.