Emergency Care Data

Revised and approved by the ACEP Board of Directors January 2007 with new title, Emergency Care Data
Reaffirmed by the ACEP Board of Directors October 2000
Approved by the ACEP Board of Directors December 1996
Originally this statement replaced a Board Motion with the same name approved December 1996 

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) encourages use of national standards for data elements in emergency department (ED) information systems and emergency medical services (EMS) information systems. Adherence to prevailing data standards enables interoperable data exchanges between information systems used in clinical care and in public health. Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS) and the National EMS Information System Project (NEMSIS) provide standard sets of data elements for ED and EMS systems.