As part of its ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality of emergency care, ACEP has developed the Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR) and the Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL). These first-of-their-kind networks support emergency physicians’ efforts to improve quality and practice in all types of emergency departments, even as practice and payment policies change over the coming years.

CEDR

As part of its ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality of emergency care, ACEP has developed the CEDR, the first emergency medicine specialty-wide registry. The ACEP CEDR has been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a qualified clinical data registry. The CEDR will provide a unified method for ACEP members to collect and submit Physician Quality Reporting System data, maintenance of certification (MOC), ongoing professional practice evaluation and other local and national quality initiatives. Visit us to get more information, watch demonstrations, and sign up.

Sunday–Monday, 7 a.m.–6 p.m.;
Tuesday, 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Level 1,
West Salon Foyer

E-QUAL

ACEP’s E-QUAL is a CMS-supported Support and Alignment Network of the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative. E-QUAL seeks to enroll more than 24,000 emergency clinicians from more than 2,000 emergency departments into learning collaboratives to demonstrate the value of EM care. Each area is designed to show the importance of EM care in meeting national goals to improve quality and reduce health care costs. The goals of E-QUAL are to:

• Improve outcomes for sepsis.
• Reduce avoidable imaging with ACEP’s Choosing Wisely program.
• Improve value of ED chest pain evaluation by reducing avoidable admissions.

Participation in E-QUAL can earn your clinicians clinical practice improvement activities credit for the new merit-based incentive payment system program, as well as MOC Part IV credit, access to free eCME, and more resources and guidelines in the E-QUAL toolkits.

Sunday–Monday, 7 a.m.–6 p.m.;
Tuesday, 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Level 1,
West Salon Foyer