Emergency Medicine Data Institute (EMDI), CEDR, & E-QUAL
ACEP has recently established Emergency Medicine Data Institute (EMDI). This next generation digital platform integrates over 1000 hospitals to collect clinical and billing data and building new products and services for emergency clinicians to enhance emergency care throughout the United States. The EMDI and its Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR) serve among the largest qualified clinical data registries in use today, providing insight on nearly a quarter of emergency department visits in the United States annually. CEDR positions clinical team for success in QPP/MIPS quality reporting requirements and identification of optimal clinical practices. The platform will also support Quality Improvement activities via Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL). E-QUAL delivers a collaborative-driven, practice change network tailored to the unique environment of emergency medicine.