The Emergency Medicine Data Institute (EMDI) offers a platform where emergency physicians can participate in clinical registries, help develop quality measures, access point-of-care tools, and take advantage of analytics and research.

• Registry services. ACEP’s Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR) currently has 139 physician groups participating and taking advantage of CEDR dashboards.
• Point-of-care tools like The Ritter Score. This tool is designed to empower physicians to identify acute aortic syndrome, a rare but deadly condition affecting only seven in 100,000 patients.
• Quality measures. ACEP has developed 25 quality measures specific to emergency medicine and emergency physicians.
• Analytics and research. The CEDR database contains encounter-level electronic health records and billing data from emergency department (ED) arrival to ED discharge. Research may be done on all 250-plus elements in the database.

EMDI by the Numbers

ACEP’s EMDI is powered by metrics from one in every seven ED visits in the United States.

• 20 million ED visits per year
• 1,000-plus individual ED locations
• 250-plus emergency medicine practice groups

E-QUAL

Enrolled emergency physicians gain access to webinars, podcasts, and toolkits, plus publications and posters with a focus on stroke, opioid and alcohol use disorder, and venous thromboembolism. By enrolling, emergency physicians:

• Earn improvement activity credit for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Merit-based Incentive Payment System program;
• Receive benchmarking data in real time;
• Access quality improvement efforts to hospital leaders and payers;
• Gain access to toolkits including best practices, sample guidelines, and key talking points;
• Access high-quality eCME;
• Earn ABEM Maintenance of Certification Program Credit (LLSA & Part IV Activities); and,
• Get visibility through the E-QUAL Honor Roll.