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June 3, 2021
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2021. It has been a life and career changing year within emergency medicine as well at telehealth.
January 26, 2021
Originally founded in 1998, the telehealth interest section of ACEP brings together emergency medicine practitioners interested in expanding patient care into the digital world.
This document provides guidance from the ACEP Emergency Telehealth Section to which any/all emergency telehealth encounters should meet in order to help maximize quality, safety, effectiveness, reliab...
December 25, 2020
This whitepaper involved a review of the existing literature on telehealth to help the section determine if there was sufficient information to help develop practice guidelines for emergency telehealt...
December 17, 2020
In this webinar, you will hear from some of our emergency medicine industry experts on how to implement tele-triage into your ED.
September 20, 2019
As telemedicine continues to grow and expand nationally and globally, ACEP too is recognizing the expanding footprint of this patient care technology. This year at the Scientific Assembly in Denver, ...
A ground-breaking five-year $3.6 million grant to the SPROUT-CTSA Collaborative Telehealth Research Network was awarded in April 2019 and will support the development of telehealth research efforts, m...
You’ve already had a long and storied career in emergency medicine and research, tell us how you pivoted to innovation in general and telehealth in specific? My identity was in research. Not my origi...
We completed review of the previously proposed resolution encouraging the promotion of telemedicine research awareness and funding opportunities. This resolution will ultimately be submitted independe...
A Disaster Task Force member researched and wrote two disaster-related resolutions that were approved by the Telehealth Disaster Task Force and the Telehealth Section Leadership.
It’s almost been one year since ACEP 2018 and our last Telehealth Section annual meeting in San Diego. In less than a couple of weeks, we will be in Denver and having another one.
March 27, 2019
On February 14, 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) within the Department of Health and Human Services announced a new payment and service delivery model called Emergency Tria...
I grew up mostly in New England. I was a military brat and so moved all over as a young kid. When my father retired, we settled in New Hampshire. I worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club as an EM...
The operational guideline task force was commissioned in order to make sure the guidelines that governed our section were appropriate, current and enabled the section to function effectively.
Welcome to the first edition of this year’s Telehealth Section Newsletter! My name is Dickson Cheung and I am honored to serve you all as the new editor of our section newsletter.
What a great time to be alive! We live in a great country and during a period where just about anyone who is willing and committed is able to better themselves and contribute to advancements in techn...
September 18, 2018
Telemedicine continues to grow as technology plays a larger role in the delivery of medical care. As more academic hospitals begin to use telemedicine in at least one department, students may have inc...
On July 12, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Medicare annual payment rule for calendar year (CY) 2019 that proposes potential changes to Medicare payments for physic...
The ACEP Telehealth section has reached out to members of the other Sections and invited their section members to an informal educational / social gathering to join with our section members and other ...
Our section has some very knowledgeable, talented and experienced members. If you, or some other member of the Telemedicine Section you know, wants to contribute, be engaged in the section and is int...
It is hard to believe, but two years have flown by and I am writing my final Chair Letter. While it has been 7 years since Neal Sikka, Bob Galli, and I were asked to serve as Special Officers to resta...
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