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Health Information Technology

Love it or hate it, Health IT has a big impact on patient safety, ED throughput, and your job satisfaction. This page is for you to learn about health IT - from policy news to the latest innovations, with a goal of having you get more out of your system, today and tomorrow.

Open Notes and 21st Century Cures Act

Patients Will Soon Have Access to Clinical Notes

The Cures Act Gives Patients Access to our Notes

Ready or Not, Here Comes the Release of Open Notes

How to Write an Open Note

Sharing Notes with Patients - EM and the 21st Century Cures Act

 

AI and Machine Learning Resources

Overcrowding Prediction

Applications of Machine Learning Approaches in EM

Sepsis Prediction and Risk

Left Without Being Seen Model

Development & Validation of ML Models to Predict Admission

 

Got EHR Problems?

You have options!

We spend too much time on Electronic Health Records. It’s easy to get frustrated with these complicated tools – but there are things we can do to make the experience better. The ACEP Health Innovation and Technology Committee put together this resource to help! Following the links below, you’ll be able to explore options in your own system, learn what’s available through your ED & IT leadership, and reach out to your EHR vendor for more.

 

Things You Can Do on Your Own

Customizing and personalizing your EHR can have a dramatic impact on efficiency on shift, and shorten time spent on the computer after your shift.

Epic Cerner EPOWERdoc

 

Engage Your Physician Group or Hospital IT

Committees for EHR optimization and compliance. Opportunities for dictation, scribes, and interfaces.

Epic Cerner EPOWERdoc

 

Working Directly With Your Vendor

Discussion boards. Super-user training. Customer solutions to common issues.

Epic Cerner EPOWERdoc

 

Latest Health IT News

September 16, 2020

Americans Want Federal Government to make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier

July 21, 2020

Hospitals Can Take Key Steps to Improve Safe Use of Digital Systems

July 7, 2020

Measure the Impact of the ONC's New Interoperability Rules Now

October 13, 2016

Documentation Pearls for Compiling a Complete Review of Systems

October 5, 2020

Inconsistent Records & Insufficient Imaging Complicate Malpractice Case

 

Practice/Health IT Information Papers

October 5, 2020

Electronic Health Records for Patient Safety

October 5, 2020

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

October 5, 2020

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

ACEP Practice/EHR Resources

October 5, 2020

ACEP4U: Electronic Health Records

October 5, 2020

Dot Phrases

 

EM Informatics Newsletters

October 5, 2020

Google Data Studio

October 5, 2020

Healthcare Tech Trends to Watch in 2020

October 5, 2020

COVID-19: Rapid Application of Technology for Emergency Department Tele-Triage

 

Policy Statements

 

HIT Webinars

August 27, 2024

EMRA App

August 27, 2024

App Development

June 3, 2024

Hawaii Behavioral Health Dashboard: Defining the Magnitude of the Behavioral Health Problem

August 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Emergency Medicine

November 11, 2022

Rethinking ED Notes: Note Bloat, Documentation Burden, and the 2023 E&M Coding Changes

June 2, 2022

Lessons Learned on Cybersecurity from the EHR Vendor’s Perspective

May 27, 2022

Emergency Medicine and Cybersecurity

April 11, 2022

What is Clinical Informatics?

May 3, 2021

Sharing Notes with Patients - EM and the 21st Century Cures Act

October 4, 2020

Digital Medicine for the Emergency Physician

October 3, 2020

The Journey to a Patient-focused CDS Tool

October 2, 2020

FHIR (Fast Health Information Resources)

October 1, 2020

Command Center Medicine to Improve Emergency Department Patient Flow

September 30, 2020

HL7 Common Model of Emergency Care Information

September 29, 2020

How Informatics Can Improve Workflows and Better Serve Emergency Physicians

September 28, 2020

EDIS Patient Safety Management

 

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