Press Release
EFMI and EUSEM cooperate to advance the digital transformation of Emergency Departments
EUSEM (European Society of Emergency Medicine) and EFMI (European Federation Medical Informatics), signed an agreement to collaborate on research and education and advance the digital transformation of emergency departments throughout Europe.
EUSEM and EFMI plan to create recommendations and education tools for the application of information technologies in Emergency Medicine Systems. Starting point, will be a minimum data set for emergency departments. Joint work will address IT tools and standards and will focus on the definition and format for capturing the Chief Complaint in an Emergency departments. Part of the collaborative effort is a feasibility study that will engage EDs, EMSs, and industry throughout Europe as well as educational material that will enrich current curricula and is expected to drive implementation of the recommendations.
Luis Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo, president of EUSEM welcomed the signature noting that: “Educational and research activities done in collaboration with multiple partners have better outcomes and savings in manpower, time and economic efforts.” Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar, president of EFMI, said “that is an important step for EFMI as it supports the long term goal of EFMI to engage in close cooperation with health professional societies.”
The European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM -https://eusem.org/) is a non-profit making scientific organization with an aim to promote and foster the concept, the philosophy and the art of Emergency Medicine throughout Europe. The main objective of EUSEM is to help and support European countries to implement the specialty of Emergency Medicine. Born as a society of individuals in 1994 from a multidisciplinary group of experts in Emergency Medicine, since 2005 EUSEM also incorporates national society members. There are currently 36 European national societies of Emergency Medicine.
The European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI www.efmi.org) is an non profit association established in Switzerland in 1976 with federated structure and members in 32 countries in European region with the aim to advance the theory and practice of medical informatics. EFMI strives to advance research and development in medical informatics and encourage high standards in education as well as in the practice of medical informatics. EFMI also disseminates knowledge in the field developed within national associations among and to the countries constituting EFMI and provides guidelines and accreditation on education and training in Biomedical Informatics and Health Informatics, as it functions as the autonomous European Regional Council of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).
Brussels 24-January-2019
National Societies
Albania
Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.
Date of origin: 1 January 2013
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Udruženje Urgentologa u Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine
Date of origin: 15 March 2019
Georgia
Georgian College of Emergency Physicians
საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი
Kosovo
Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)
Year of origin: 2008
Lithuania
Lithuanian Society for Emergency Medicine
Lietuvos Skubiosios Medicinos Draugija
Date of origin: 3 October 2003
Malta
Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta
Ghaqda Maltija tat-Tobba ghall-Emergenzi
Date of origin: 1 December 2006
Moldova
Society of Emergency Medicine and Disasters Medicine from Republic of Moldova
Asociația Obștească Societatea Științifico-Practică de Medicină de Urgență și Catastrofe din Republica Moldova
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Norwegian College of Emergency Medicine
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Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine
Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência
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