Working group Digital Emergency Medicine

From Apps, Decision aids, Smart Health and Virtual Reality to Telemedicine

How patients are treated in emergency- and acute medicine is subject to rapid change. Learning and working processes in acute medicine are changed by digital aids and the handling as well as opportunities and threats are often unclear and require training. Doctors today grow up in the digital age with smartphones, apps and smart devices and use them in their daily lives. However, the skills that are learned and applied are still insufficient and only partially transferable for daily use in medical professional work with patients. This change does not only take place on the side of the doctor/medical student:

• Change from knowledge-based education to process-oriented education and clinical work: From textbook to Dr. Google
• Integration of Decision Aids and Smartphone Apps as medical products in the everyday life of an acute physician: Medical Calculators, Scoring/Triagesoftware
• There is a whole spectrum of tele-emergency medicine: from algorithm-based apps to video-physician-based remote treatment. Telemedicine, i.e. the remote emergency treatment of patients, can improve access to emergency treatment in emergency medicine and could contribute to bringing specialists to the periphery and reducing the rural shortage of physicians.
• “Artificial intelligence is a buzzword in all media”. Applications of artificial intelligence algorithms in the context of "decision aids" but also machine learning applications in image recognition and processing of vital signs/laboratory values are a major topic.

But also on the patient's side:

• The informed patient: communication and interaction with these patients, legal aspects
• Smart Health: data protection risks, dealing as a physician with e.g. Apple watch detected atrial fibrillation

The working group should create the opportunity to exchange experiences, discuss basic principles and develop a common standard.

Proposed objectives of the working group

• Meeting point of emergency phycicians interested in digital transformation
• Support and participation in the development of the future of "digital emergency medicine" featuring opportunities and risks of technological innovations
• Exploring possibilies of integrating digital competencies into the training of an emergency physician
• Use of digital technologies in emergency medicine e.g. Virtual reality simulation training, decision aids
• Exchange and coordination or participation in research projects in the area of digital emergency medicine
• Exchange experiences, discuss basic principles and develop a common standard for emergency telemedicine.
• Applications of machine learning in emergency medicine and its limits, opportunities and ethical implications have to be discussed.

National Societies

Albania

Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine

Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.

Date of origin: 1 January 2013

Austria

Austrian Association of Emergency Medicine

Österreichische Vereinigung für Notfallmedizin

Date of origin: 17 July 2008

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Belgium

Belgian Society of Emergency and Disaster Medicine

Belgische wetenschappelijke vereniging voor urgentie- en Rampengeneeskunde

Year of origin: 1995

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

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Bulgaria

Bulgarian Emergency Medical Services Association

_{ЕКИПНОСТ, СМЕЛОСТ, ВСЕОТДАЙНОСТ}

Croatia

Croatian Society of Emergency Medicine

HZL Hrvatsko Društvo za Hitnu Medicinu 

Date of origin: 12 June 1990

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Czech Republic

Czech Society for Emergency and Disaster Medicine

Společnost urgentní medicíny a medicíny katastrof ČLS JEP

Year of origin: 1994 

Denmark

Danish Society for Emergency Medicine

Dansk Selskab for Akutmedicin

Date of origin: 28 September 2006

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Estonia

Estonian Society of Emergency Physicians

Eesti Erakorralise Meditsiini Arstide Selts

Date of origin: 30 March 2004

 

Finland

Finnish Society for Emergency Medicine

Suomen akuuttilääketieteen yhdistys ry

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France

French Society for Emergency Medicine

Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence 

Date of origin: 3 March 1985

Georgia

Georgian College of Emergency Physicians

საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი

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Germany

German Association for Emergency Medicine

Deutsche Gesellschaft Interdisziplinäre Notfall- und Akutmedizin (DGINA) e.V.

Greece

Hellenic Society of Emergency Medicine

Ελληνική Εταιρεία Επείγουσας Ιατρικής

Date of origin: 4 December 2002

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Hungary

Hungarian Society for Emergency Medicine

Magyar Sürgösségi Orvostani Társaság

Date of origin: 8 April 2000

Iceland

Icelandic Society for Emergency Medicine (ISEM)

Félag bráðalækna

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Ireland

Irish Association for Emergency Medicine 

Cumann Leigheas Éigeandála na hÉireann (IAEM)  

Date of origin: 29 April 1989

Italy

Italian Society for Emergency Medicine

Società Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza Urgenza (SIMEU)

Year of origin: 2000

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Kosovo

Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine

Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)  

Year of origin: 2008

Latvia

Latvian Association for Emergency Medicine

Latvijas Republikas Neatliekamās medicīnas asociācija

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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

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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

Netherlands

Dutch Society of Emergency Physicians

Nederlandse Vereniging van Spoedeisende Hulp Artsen

Year of origin: 1999

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Norway

Norwegian College of Emergency Medicine

Poland

Polish Society for Emergency Medicine

Polskie Towarzystwo Medycyny Ratunkowej

Year of origin: 1999

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Portugal

Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine

Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência 

Romania

Romanian Society for Emergency and Disaster Medicine

Societatea de Medicina de Urgenta si Catastrofa din Romania

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Serbia

Serbian Society of Emergency Physicians

Društvo lekara urgentne medicine Srbije

Date of origin: 13 November 2014

Slovakia

Slovak Society of Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Slovenská spoločnost' urgentnej medicíny katastrof 

Date of origin: 4 October 1997

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Slovenia

Slovenian Emergency Medical Association

Slovensko združenje za urgentno medicino

Date of origin: 29 June 2016

Spain

Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine

Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias

Date of origin: 8 March 1988

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Sweden

Swedish Society for Emergency Medicine

Svensk Förening för Akutsjukvård

Year of origin: 2002

Switzerland

Swiss Society for Emergency and Disaster Medicine
Gesellschaft für Notfall- und Rettungsmedizin
Société Suisse de Médecine d’Urgence et de Sauvetage SSMUS
Società Svizzera di Medicina d’Urgenza e di Salvataggio SSMUS

Date of origin: 23 November 1990

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Turkey

Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey (EMAT)

Tϋrkiye Acil Tıp Derneği

Ukraine

All-Ukrainian Resuscitation Council and Emergency Medicine- ARCEM 

Year of origin: 2011

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United Kingdom

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

Year of origin: 1993