Emergency Telehealth Section Newsroom

February 24, 2025 • Emergency Telemedicine Section

February 2025: Letter from the Chair

As our world rapidly evolves, so too do challenges within the field of medicine. In emergency medicine, the ongoing integration of telehealth into our practice has not only expanded our reach but also...

July 9, 2024 • Emergency Telemedicine Section

ACEP Section on Telehealth Spring Newsletter

Explore the latest in Telehealth Medicine! Click here to view our Summer E-Newsletter.

March 6, 2024 • Emergency Telemedicine Section

ACEP Section on Telehealth Winter Newsletter

Explore the latest in Telehealth Medicine! Click here to view our Fall E-Newsletter.

January 2, 2024 • Emergency Telemedicine Section

ACEP Section on Telehealth Fall Newsletter

Explore the latest in Telehealth Medicine! Click here to view our Fall E-Newsletter.

January 2, 2024 • Emergency Telemedicine Section

ACEP Section on Telehealth Summer Newsletter

Explore the latest in Telehealth Medicine! Click here to view our Summer E-Newsletter.

April 5, 2023

Letter from the Chair

As Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

April 5, 2023

Health Policy Corner: COVID-19 Telehealth Flexibilities: What to Expect Going Forward

As you all know, the federal government and states across the country have instituted numerous telehealth flexibilities during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) that have greatly enhanced you...

April 5, 2023

VOICES FROM THE FIELD: Emory Rural Tele-EMS (ER-TEMS)

Coordinating Care Between Rural EMS, Rural Hospitals, and a Tertiary Academic Health System Using an Emergency Physician Telemedicine Network

April 5, 2023

VOICES FROM THE FIELD: Equal Footing: The Rural Penalty and How Telemedicine Levels the Playing Field

The U.S. is the 4th largest country in the world and although most of its citizens live in urban areas, a significant portion reside in rural, remote regions. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 1 in...

April 5, 2023

Five Awesome Abstracts

“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming ***If there are abstracts you have found to be great, please send them to the Newsletter Editor for consideration for the next issue!...

April 5, 2023

Introducing Section Officers for 2022-23

Chair: Emily M. Hayden, MD, MHPE; Chair-Elect: Michael Baker, MD, FACEP; Secretary: Rishi Khakhkhar, MD, MBA; Newsletter Editor: Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli, MD, MPH, FACEP; Councilor: Aditi U Joshi MD, ...

February 1, 2023

New Webinars!

Check out our new Webinars in our Resources section!

June 3, 2021

Telehealth Spring Newsletter 2021 (PDF)

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

Telehealth in Emergency Medicine: a Primer

Originally founded in 1998, the telehealth interest section of ACEP brings together emergency medicine practitioners interested in expanding patient care into the digital world.

January 26, 2021

Practice Guidance for Emergency Telehealth and Acute Unscheduled Care Telehealth

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

Review of Telehealth Literature Whitepaper

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...

September 20, 2019

Prove It: National Telehealth Research Network Greenlighted

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...

September 20, 2019

Interview with Dr. Judd Hollander

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...

September 20, 2019

Research and Resolutions Task Force Update

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...

September 20, 2019

Disaster Task Force Update

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.

September 20, 2019

Message from the Chair

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

At a Glance: HHS Emergency Triage Treat and Transport Payment Model

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...

March 27, 2019

Interview with Dr Chris Davis

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...

March 27, 2019

Taskforce Updates

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.

March 27, 2019

Letter from the Chair

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...