As part of its ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality of emergency care, ACEP has developed the Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR) and the Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL). These first-of-their-kind networks support emergency physicians’ efforts to improve quality and practice in all types of emergency departments, even as practice and payment policies change over the coming years.

CEDR

As part of its ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality of emergency care, ACEP has developed the CEDR, the first emergency medicine specialty-wide registry. The ACEP CEDR has been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a qualified clinical data registry. The CEDR will provide a unified method for ACEP members to collect and submit Physician Quality Reporting System data, maintenance of certification (MOC), ongoing professional practice evaluation, and other local and national quality initiatives. Visit us to get more information, watch demonstrations, and sign up.
Sunday–Monday, 7 a.m.–6 p.m.
Tuesday, 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
WCC, Level 1, West Salon Foyer

E-QUAL

ACEP’s E-QUAL is a CMS-supported Support and Alignment Network of the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative. E-QUAL has been designed to engage emergency clinicians and leverage emergency departments to improve clinical outcomes and coordination of care and to reduce costs within three focus areas:

• Improving outcomes for patients with sepsis
• Reducing avoidable imaging in low-risk patients through implementation of ACEP’s Choosing Wisely recommendations
• Improving the value of ED chest pain evaluation by reducing avoidable admissions in low-risk patients with chest pain

Participation in E-QUAL will demonstrate the value and importance of EM care in addition to clinicians earning improvement activity credit for the new merit-based incentive payment system program, MOC Part IV credit, access to free eCME, and more resources and guidelines in the E-QUAL toolkits.
Sunday–Monday, 7 a.m.–6 p.m.
Tuesday, 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
WCC, Level 1, West Salon Foyer