Electronic Health Records

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Smart phrases are blocks of copy that you can copy and paste into your hospital's electronic health records (EHR) system to automatically create discharge papers for common ED presentations.

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ACEP Chapter and Spokesperson COVID-19 PR Toolkit November.pdf

ACEP is advocating to lower your administrative burden.

Appropriate Use Criteria, MIPS, data sharing: We're tackling the EHR problem head-on through several different regulatory channels.

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Policy Statements

Patient Medical Records in the Emergency Department

Electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

Clinical Emergency Data Registry Quality Measures

External Cause of Morbidity Codes and Injury Surveillance Data Systems

Disaster Data Collection

Health Information Technology

Emergency Medical Services Interfaces with Health Care Systems

Relevant Articles

Specimen Collection and Labeling After Implementation of New Electronic Health Record: Work as Imagined Versus Work as Performed

A Custom-Developed Emergency Department Provider Electronic Documentation System Reduces Operational Efficiency

Embedded Clinical Decision Support in an Electronic Health Record Decreases Use of High Cost Imaging in the Emergency Department: The EmbED study

Can an Electronic Health Record Order Set Improve Analgesia and Sedation in the Intubated Emergency Department Patient?

Online Relationship - Electronic Health Records for Patient Safety (PDF)

Information Papers

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Best Practices for Efficiency and Throughput

An MLC Field Guide to Challenges and Opportunities in Medical Imaging, EHRs, and Social Media

EHR Resources

ACEP Now Emergency Medical Records (EMR) Articles

ACEP Now EMR Articles

EHR-Related eCME

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Ethical Issues in the Emergency Department

Open eCME

Emergency Medicine Informatics Section

Informatics Section Webinars

The Journey to a Patient-focused CDS Tool

CDS Webinar

Digital Medicine for the Emergency Physician

Digital Medicine Webinar

Information Resources (FHIR)

FHIR Webinar