Emergency Medicine Informatics Section Newsroom

October 8, 2019

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seek Chief Health Informatics Officer

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), within the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), provides health coverage to more than 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Chi...

October 8, 2019

Design defined: How changing your thinking can help spur innovation

It’s a wonderful time to help shape this ever-changing practice of medicine. The amount of data generated in healthcare is astounding, and our population is becoming increasingly connected on a global...

October 8, 2019

Digital Health Partnerships for Innovation in Emergency Medicine

In 2016, the U.S. invested $4.2B in digital health companies seeking to optimize healthcare, reduce spending waste, and transform the care-delivery process.

October 8, 2019

ACEP EMI Section Helps to Revise ABPM Clinical Informatics Requirement to Maintain Primary Board Certification

With assistance from the ACEP and ABEM Boards of Directors, the EMI Section leadership petitioned the ABPM Board (primary board for Clinical Informatics) to eliminate the requirement to maintain ABEM ...

October 8, 2019

ACEP Data Summit Recap: CEDR Data for Research

This July, ACEP convened its second “Data Summit” at its headquarters in Irving, Texas. The group was made up of ACEP leaders and staff, key members of the Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR) comm...

October 8, 2019

2019 ACEP HIT Summit

ACEP hosted a HIT Summit at ACEP National Headquarters in Irving, TX on July 8, 2019.

June 28, 2019

EMRA Informatics: Get involved!

While I will never forget the site of hundreds of helmetless EM physicians weaving through traffic on motorized scooters (daring the NEXUS II and Canadian CT Head gods), ACEP18 was a memorable event f...

June 28, 2019

More on 2019 HIMSS

At an IT conference that is best described in superlatives, the Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS19 does not disappoint. This anchor location at the end of the exhibition floor fills an entire ballro...

June 13, 2019

ACEP & Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) Data Summit

Subject: Informational Report on ACEP / Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) Data Summit.

June 13, 2019

EMBED: Pragmatic trial of User-centered clinical decision support to implement EMergency department-initiated BuprenorphinE for opioid use Disorder

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a major public health concern taking a devastating toll on Americans, their families, and communities. An estimated 2.1 million Americans had an opioid use disorder in 201...

September 10, 2018

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Quality Payment Program

If you submitted 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data through the Quality Payment Program website, you can now view your performance feedback and MIPS final score. You can access your...

September 10, 2018

History of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) & ACEP Affiliation: How a “good idea” can change the world

I had been participating in the informatics section for a few years and came to realize that, by and large, Emergency physicians didn’t seem to have informatics training.

September 10, 2018

Today’s Rant: ED EMR Documentation, Billing and Coding and Advanced Practice Providers

As an Emergency Physician and Clinical Informatisist, I have some things to say. You probably do too, so feel free to contribute to this Newsletter. Here’s some sage advice, along with a few pet peeve...

September 10, 2018

At Your Service!

With assistance from ACEP and ABEM Boards of Directors, the EMI Section leadership petitioned the ABPM Board (primary board for Clinical Informatics) to eliminate the requirement to maintain ABEM boar...