The medical health emergency card

The Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Review

College of the Sequoias Emergency Information Card

Emergency medical services: the frontier in health information exchange.

Emergency medical service (EMS) providers routinely lack even basic access to pre-existing patient information when delivering patient care in the field. Improving access to pre-existing patient information could improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care that they can deliver. EMS providers in Indianapolis use an electronic record to document their care. In order to provide access to p...

The national report card on the state of emergency medicine.

Becher • Editorial E this year, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released its first-ever National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine with the intention of bringing the critical issues confronting emergency care in the United States before the public eye. The ACEP Report Card is an assessment of the support that each state provides for its emergency medicine system...

Virtual Health Card System

Electronic Health Records are key components to an efficient exploitation of information technologies in health care institutions. Nevertheless, several barriers that hinder its wide adoption subsists. The co-existence of dissimilar and incompatible health information systems and the absence of a unique central repository for personal medical data are some examples. This paper, we propose a web...