USAEM Board Of Directors Reviews Empower

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 3, 2006 -– The United States Alliance of Emergency Medicine (USAEM) Board of Directors traveled to Chicago this week for an Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop and to review the EmpowER System EDIS application. The group met at the Radisson Hotel for a demonstration of EmpowER, and then continued to a site visit at Michael Reese Hospital where they saw EmpowER live and interfaced, and interacted with the clinical front end users.

“As an ED physcian, software developer and regional director for Emcare, I was sincerely impressed that Dr. Seth Guterman and his team have developed an application that meets all the criteria I would lay out for exceptional software,” said Dr. Tripp Wingate of USAEM.

According to the USAEM website (http://www.usaem.org), from an administrative perspective EmpowER allows a powerful suite of "canned" and customizable reports that can track critical operational metrics in real-time, as well as quality indicators. From a risk management and regulatory compliance perspective, EmpowER is “exceptional.” The application prompts for reevaluations on clinically-indicated conditions, and provides order sets specific to high risk conditions and prompts to consider certain high risk chief complaints.

“I came here thinking the ECDS team would simply help us develop some core competencies,” said Dr. Sonny Saggar of USAEM. “I had no idea that EmpowER had such incredible features.”

To read USAEM’s full report on EmpowER, please click http://www.usaem.org/NewsDetail.asp?id=10

About USAEM

The mission of the United States Alliance of Emergency Medicine (USAEM) is to improve the quality of emergency medical care, and protect the interests of all professionals involved in the care of emergency patients. These professionals include, but are not limited to, physicians, physician extenders, nurses, paramedics and emergency medicine technicians who are involved in providing emergency care or transport.

The Alliance shall strive to improve the care of the critically ill or injured patient by establishing standards for a team-oriented approach among emergency care professionals and support the continuing education of these professionals. USAEM shall also support education of the general public in accident prevention, emergency treatment, and disease management and prevention.

About ECDS and the EmpowER System™

A Chicago-based healthcare IT vendor, Emergency Care Documentation Systems is a boutique company specializing in all facets of emergency medicine documentation. EmpowER™ is a user-friendly, comprehensive, best of breed EDIS that was designed by front-line clinicians and has a proven track record of interfacing. Funded solely by the increase in net revenues from the first two EmpowER™ installation sites, EmpowER™ was developed and designed by ED physicians and nurses with the support of experts in IT, risk management, government compliance, coding, billing, and more. For more information, visit www.ecds.md.

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