Browsing: Administration & Operations

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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Administration & Operations , Informatics

Health Policy Journal Club: Are You Sick Enough to Need the Emergency Department?

8/30/2024 Darby Billing , Vidya Eswaran, MD , Rachel Solnick, MD
Artificial Intelligence has garnered significant hype in every sector, including medicine. How accurate are those AI algorithms in predicting whether a patient is experiencing a medical emergency? The
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Administration & Operations , Social EM

Health Policy Journal Club: Null Results and Next Steps

6/14/2024 Lydia Bennett, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD , Rachel Solnick, MD
In the United States, 50% of health care costs are accumulated by only 5% of the population. To curb spending, programs have been developed to improve outcomes in patients with high health care use. B
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Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration

Nowhere to Go: Addressing the Boarding Crisis in the Emergency Department

4/15/2024 Richard Ngo, DMD , Carly Rosen, MD , Christina Brown, MD , Andrew Luo, MD , Savanah Harshbarger, MD, MBA , Jaskaran Bains, MD, MBA , Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA
During a pivotal panel discussion hosted by EMRA’s Admin & Ops Committee at ACEP23, leading experts urgently called for a paradigm shift in how ED crowding is perceived and addressed. Far from being a
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Administration & Operations , Social EM

Health Policy Journal Club: Final Destination

4/11/2024 Phillip Groden, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD , Rachel Solnick, MD
Does triage create a bias that might contribute to mis-diagnosis? The Health Policy Journal Club evaluates a recent study of the Emergency Severity Index.
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Administration & Operations

Eclipse Study: Can Celestial Forces Affect ED Visits and Acuity?

4/10/2024 Aaron J. Grossberg, DO , Jessie K. Cable, DO , Rakael D. Brown, DO , Sagar C. Galwankar, MBBS , Ali Z. Al-Rawi, MD
Our study, examining how eclipses affect human behavior in terms of ED visits and acuity, suggests that the presence of an eclipse does not detrimentally affect human behavior. Human beings are sentie
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Administration & Operations , Social EM

Health Policy Journal Club: Documentation Matters

2/8/2024 Elina Kurkurina, MPH , Vidya Eswaran, MD , Rachel Solnick, MD , Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP
Social determinants of health are an important and well-documented driver of health care utilization and outcomes - so important, in fact, that there's a class of ICD codes specifically for it. Are yo
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Technology, Telehealth, and Informatics , Administration & Operations

Health Policy Journal Club: The Limit (SHOULD) Not Exist!

12/7/2023 Ryan Leone, MSc , Vidya Eswaran, MD , Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP
Improving a physician's ability to manage electronic health records might improve not only the physician's workday, but also the patient's satisfaction. How is policy helping (or hindering) this? The
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Career Planning , Administration & Operations , Administration and Operations Committee

The Art of Negotiation: Workshop Reflections for the EM Physician

8/10/2023 Richard Ngo, DMD , Andrew Luo, MD , Christina Brown, MD , Jaskaran Bains, MD, MBA , Savanah Harshbarger, MD, MBA , Carly Rosen, MD , Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA
Emergency physicians use negotiation skills everyday — with both patients and peers. Building strong negotiation skills early can make long-term impacts on career progression.
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Advocacy , Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration

Overview: What Every EM Resident Needs to Know About Reimbursement in 2023

7/15/2023 Aaron R. Kuzel, DO, MBA , Nicholas Cozzi, MD, MBA , Brian Hiestand, MD , Alexa Golden, MD , Jamie Shoemaker, MD , David McKenzie
Physician reimbursement has been one of the most volatile areas of advocacy this year. Graduating EM residents need to know the basics in order to navigate contracts and practice effectively.
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Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration

Effective Interventions to Improve the ED Consultation Process

4/10/2023 Tara J. Tardino, MD-MPH , Kunal N. Agarwal, MD , Kristopher A. Hendershot, MD
ED overcrowding correlates with higher mortality, longer time to treatment, and more patients leaving against medical advice or without being seen. Improving the consultation process and decreasing le