Technology, Telehealth & Informatics Committee
Technology, Telehealth & Informatics Leaders
Chair
Sidra Speaker, MD
Chair-Elect
Monique Arnold, MD
Vice Chair
Avi Patel, MD
Vice Chair
Alec Labadie, MD
Assistant Vice Chair
Christopher Awad MD,MBA
Director of Leadership Development
Grace Bunemann, DO
Chicago, IL
Chair
Sidra Speaker, MD
Chair-Elect
Monique Arnold, MD
Vice Chair
Avi Patel, MD
Vice Chair
Alec Labadie, MD
Assistant Vice Chair
Christopher Awad MD,MBA
Director of Leadership Development
Grace Bunemann, DO
Chicago, IL
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NLM Biomedical Informatics Research Training Programs
The U.S. National Library of Medicine currently recognizes 16 biomedical informatics training programs. These programs offer graduate education and postdoctoral research experiences in a wide range of areas including: health care informatics, translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, and public health informatics.
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EMRA/ACEP Clinical Informatics Curriculum Series: Session #4
Speaker:
Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD
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EMRA/ACEP Clinical Informatics Curriculum Series: Session #3
Speakers:
Jeffrey Nielson, MD, MS
Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD
EMRA/ACEP Clinical Informatics Curriculum Series: Session #2
We welcomed Dr. Ben Slovis, who currently serves as Director of Medical Informatics at Jefferson Health. Dr. Slovis’s session covers CI tools to improve patient care delivery and outcomes.
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EMRA/ACEP Clinical Informatics Curriculum Series: Session #1
Speakers:
Carrie Baker, DO, MS, FACEP
ACEP Section for EM Informatics Chair
Caption Health: AI in the Clinical Setting
Kilian Koepsell, PhD, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Caption Health, discusses their current technologies and future growth opportunities, focusing the conversation on how they decide to develop clinical products, how physicians are involved as key stakeholders in those decisions, and how they attempt to market a given product to physicians.
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Clinical Informatics Fellowship Director Panel
Clinical Informatics fellowship director panel with Drs. Christian Dameff, James Killeen, and Ted Melnick! Learn more about what programs are seeking in candidates, how to build a competitive fellowship application, and what types of exciting initiatives programs are launching as medicine and technology increasingly intersect.
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The Future of Telehealth in Emergency Medicine
April 2021
EMRA's Informatics and Administration & Operations Committees held a panel discussion with Emily Hayden, MD, MHPE; Aditi Joshi, MD, MSc, FACEP; and Sari Lahham, MD, MBA, who will discuss the role of telehealth in Emergency Medicine. From current best practices to rapid deployment brought about by COVID-19, to future opportunities for expanded utilization, the conversation will be full of exciting ideas in this quickly growing field!
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TeleHealth: Pitfalls and Pearls for a New Reality, presented by the EMRA Informatics Committee
Join EMRA's Informatics Committee to learn about EM advances in Telehealth.
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As a resident, you get joint memberships in both EMRA and ACEP - so make sure you're aware and informed of what the ACEP Informatics Section is doing!
When you set up your EMRA/ACEP membership, you get (2) section memberships for free - one to the ACEP Young Physician Section, and one of your choice. Why not make that choice Informatics?
Additional ACEP section fees are half off - only $20
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EMRA Fellowship Guide
Chapter 12 Informatics Fellowship
The Accrediting Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) defines this fellowship as “the subspecialty of all medical specialties that transforms health care by analyzing, designing, implementing, and evaluating information and communication systems to improve patient care, enhance access to care, advance individual and population health outcomes, and strengthen the clinicianpatient relationship.”
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