The American College of Emergency Physicians is partnering with PA Consulting on a new platform aimed at helping emergency care providers access data and resources to improve services and outcomes and reduce administrative burdens.
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is launching a digital platform aimed at helping healthcare organizations improve their emergency care services.
ACEP will partner with PA Consulting on the platform, which will form the foundation for ACEP's newly launched Emergency Medicine Data Institute (EMDI).
“The ACEP Emergency Medicine Data Institute will transform information that physicians and others can rely on to support clinical innovation and patient management,” ACEP President Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP, said in a press release. “We are very excited to launch a resource with the potential to transform care delivery and empower clinicians at the bedside with analytics from emergency departments around the country.”
"This is a fantastic opportunity for us to build a multi-year engagement around data and analytics in healthcare," added Nilesh Chandra, a healthcare expert with PA Consulting and the ACEP project lead "We know that large scale datasets are critically important to solving the most pressing challenges in healthcare. This was true in the 1840s when John Snow used incidence and address information to trace a cholera outbreak to a water well in London, and data’s importance has been made abundantly clear in the last few years with the Covid-19 pandemic. Emergency department data has the potential to fundamentally transform the care of patients and improve lives."
The new data platform is expected to integrate with more than 1,000 hospitals, collecting clinical and billing data on emergency care. The information will be used in EMDI's Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR), offering healthcare providers a resource to identify best practices, new treatment and therapies, and other services aimed at reducing the reporting burden and boosting outcomes.
Eric Wicklund is the associate content manager and senior editor for Innovation at HealthLeaders.