| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Oct 27, 2026 | From two doctors to 800,000 clinicians: Vera Health raises $28.5M | Today, clinical health platform Vera Health announced a $28.5 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures, with participation from Optum Ventures, the healthcare venture firm backed by UnitedHealth Group, Mantis VC and SV Angel.
Vera Health ... |
| Oct 27, 2026 | Vera Health Raises $28.5M for Clinical AI Search Engine: Surpasses 800,000 Global Physician Users | What You Should Know
Clinical artificial intelligence search platform Vera Health announced the closing of a $28.5 million Series A funding round led by Threshold Ventures.
The financing included participation from Mantis VC and SV Angel, w... |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Here’s why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
It’s October and time for flu shots.
Medical experts urge getting a flu vaccination soon, before influenza starts spreading widely — and to get up to date on ... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Sayvant and American College of Emergency Physicians Partner to Bring ACEP Point of Care Tools Into Real-Time Workflow | Sayvant now applies ACEP's evidence-based Point of Care tools against live encounters, surfacing next-step recommendations to emergency physicians in real time.
This partnership helps clinicians avoid gaps in workflow and puts ACEP’s g... |
| Sep 14, 2026 | What geriatric emergency departments do differently | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Paula Span, KFF Health News
It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility. “It... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | America’s Hospitals Are Transforming Care for an Aging Nation | By Rani E. Snyder, President, The John A. Hartford Foundation and Dr. Chris DeRienzo, AHA Chief Physician Executive/President of AHA’s HRET
As the U.S. population ages, hospitals and health systems are reimagining how care is delivered to b... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Lawmakers look to make abortion shield laws less dependent on who’s governor | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jackie Fortiér, KFF Health News
When Gov. Gavin Newsom, using his executive power, refused to extradite a physician accused of prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman, he sai... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Experts say rural emergency rooms are increasingly run without doctors | A recent study found that in 2022, at least 7.4% of emergency departments across the U.S. did not have an attending physician on-site 24/7. Like Dahl Memorial, more than 90% were in low-volume or critical access hospitals — a federal design... |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Safety and Health Outcomes in Healthcare | In the world of healthcare, two pressing issues loom large: workplace safety for nurses and health outcomes for rural populations. Both are intertwined, like threads in a tapestry, each affecting the other. Nurses are the backbone of health... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Strategies for Promoting Workplace Safety for Nurses | Andrea Greco, SVP of Healthcare Safety, CENTEGIX
Nurses bring dedication to health systems, outpatient centers, hospitals, and more, committing their lives to caring for those in the community who need it most. Unfortunately, that commitmen... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared | Some people who aren’t in the middle of a life-threatening emergency might even wait weeks, health care experts said.
ER boarding is a symptom of the U.S. health care system’s struggles, including shrinking points of entry for patients seek... |
| Apr 7, 2025 | VisualDx Partners with American College of Emergency Physicians to Enhance Measles Diagnosis and Treatment | Physician Support Tool and Medical Image Library Aids Clinical Decisions, Disease Identification. ROCHESTER, NY, UNITED STATES, April 7, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and VisualDx, a medical ... |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Thomas Wyatt, MD, FACEP selected as Chair of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare | Thomas Wyatt, MD, FACEP, was recently appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare. Dr. Wyatt is one of the first tribally enrolled American Indians (Shawnee/Quapaw) to lead an academic emergency... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Emergency responders turning to drones to try to get people help faster | The drones are coming.
Starting in September, if someone in Clemmons, North Carolina, calls 911 to report a cardiac arrest, the first responder on the scene may be a drone carrying an automated external defibrillator, or AED.
"The idea... |
| May 24, 2024 | He fell ill on a cruise. Before he boarded the rescue boat, they handed him the bill. | Vincent Wasney and his fiancée, Sarah Eberlein, had never visited the ocean. They'd never even been on a plane. But when they bought their first home in Saginaw, Michigan, in 2018, their real estate agent gifted them tickets for a Roya... |
| May 18, 2024 | Health | Stranded in the ER, seniors await hospital care and suffer avoidable harm | “It’s a public health crisis,” said Aisha Terry, an associate professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the president of the board of the American College of Emergency Physici... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Medical school graduates are returning to ERs | Data: The National Resident Matching Program; Chart: Axios Visuals
New doctors' interest in emergency medicine is rebounding after the field became the embodiment of professional burnout during the pandemic.
But the percentage of fille... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Preventing health care violence in the ER requires moving from safety to security | A slight man falls off his barstool. Now he’s an ER patient, slurring insults and flailing at staff trying to examine him for injuries. When a nurse begs him not to because we don’t know yet whether he has a neck injury, this respectable-lo... |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Colorado Becomes 2nd State To Strike ‘Excited Delirium’ From The Law Enforcement Vernacular | In October, California became the first state in the nation to ban “excited delirium” as an official cause of death. While this was a positive development, the question remains: why did it take so long? |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians | While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians.
The American College of Emergency Physicians predicted in a 2021 s... |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Tennessee Crisis Teams Reduce Time to Access Care for Those Seeking Mental Health Services with XFERALL | XFERALL, a growing behavioral health network, is working to drastically cut down these extended patient waiting times via their platform.
With XFERALL, we know what's going on in real time, because we can see when other healthcare faci... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Dying in the Waiting Room: Emergency Departments Have Become the Nexus of the Newest Healthcare Crisis | Across nearly every hospital in the country, an entirely new unit has appeared. It’s one that nobody wanted and nobody knows exactly what to do with, but it’s there. You might call it purgatory, or a black hole, or limbo, or any number of o... |
| May 2, 2023 | Rise in suicide-related ED visits among youth raises larger questions around mental health care | Visits to the emergency department related to suicide among children and adults aged 6 to 24 in the U.S. increased fivefold from 2011 to 2020, according to a new study published Tuesday. The increase was significant in all age groups across... |
| Mar 20, 2023 | Will there be any emergency doctors to see you in the future? | In the emergency room today, everyone is suffering. Many emergency medicine physicians are struggling to provide quality care amid staffing shortages, increased pressure to meet productivity metrics, and frustrated patients battling prolong... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | How physician wellness programs keep doctors captive | The American College of Surgeons recently announced its new well-being initiative for surgeons. This wellness program has lofty goals:
[The ACS] recognizes the need to foster well-being, resilience, and work-life integration for all surgeon... |
| Feb 11, 2023 | Meet TikTok's 'barefoot influencers' who are accused of being gross and unsafe, but say it's worth it to encourage viewers to connect with nature | Culture Meet TikTok's 'barefoot influencers' who are accused of being gross and unsafe, but say it's worth it to encourage viewers to connect with nature
Charissa Cheong
2023-02-11T12:30:00Z
Share icon An curved arrow po... |
| Jan 20, 2023 | Poll Finds Nearly Half of Americans Unprepared for Medical Emergency | FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A medical emergency can happen at any moment. Will you be prepared?
Nearly half of American adults will not, according to a new poll from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and Morn... |
| Jan 8, 2023 | Emergency Care Vs. Urgent Care: What's the Difference? | SUNDAY, Jan. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- If you’re sick or have been injured, you might not know whether the emergency room or urgent care is the right place to be treated.
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) offers some gen... |
| Nov 14, 2022 | America's Emergency Physicians Warn of Surge in Patients Due to 'Tripledemic' | MONDAY, Nov. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Emergency departments are backed up with people who are waiting for inpatient beds or other care and it is causing a crisis, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
ACEP is... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Emergency Physicians: Avoid These 'Health Scares' on Halloween | WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Halloween is just around the corner, and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) urges all who celebrate to do so with their health and safety top of mind. Simple steps can hel... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | ScribeAmerica to Showcase Emergency Department Services at ACEP Scientific Assembly 2022 | Staffing, provider burnout and value-based care continue to be top of mind for healthcare leaders. ScribeAmerica continues to drive innovation, introducing multiple modalities, from in-person to ambient AI, to fulfill our mission to meaning... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | America's ER Docs Alarmed by Rising Violence From Patients | FRIDAY, Sept. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The stories grabbed headlines during the pandemic: Violent episodes in U.S. emergency rooms where patients attacked doctors.
Now, a new poll shows just how widespread the problem has become: Two-th... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | America's Emergency Medicine Physicians Alarmed by Rising Violence From Patients | FRIDAY, Sept. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The stories grabbed headlines during the pandemic: violent episodes in U.S. emergency departments where patients attacked doctors.
Now, a new poll shows just how widespread the problem has become: ... |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Mindray to Reveal Innovative Emergency Medicine Solutions Live at ACEP22 Scientific Assembly | TE X Ultrasound System Mindray will be exhibiting at ACEP22 in Booth 1224 to highlight their latest advancements in Emergency Medicine, including the live debut of the TE X Ultrasound System.
MAHWAH, N.J. (PRWEB) September 19, 2022
Mindray,... |
| Aug 23, 2022 | Experts in Emergency Medicine to Assemble for ACEP22 | WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emergency physicians, expert researchers, and health care leaders will meet in San Francisco, CA on October 1-4, 2022 for ACEP22, the world's largest emergency medicine conference, pr... |
| May 16, 2022 | Metrasens Launches Metrasens Ultra™ Detection System into Healthcare | "In Metrasens Ultra we have concentrated on bringing to market a solution rather than just a product. The difference is that a solution represents a more complete response to the hospital's needs holistically and serves the needs ... |
| May 16, 2022 | Listen: A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody | One night in 2019, Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man in Colorado, was walking home when he was approached by police. Someone had deemed him “suspicious” and called the cops. The police argued with McClain, tackled him to the ground, a... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Mindray to Unveil New Ultrasound Machine at ACEP Scientific Assembly | Something bigger is coming. Our goal is to partner with our customers and continue to push the technology revolution forward, combatting the Point of Care challenges they face every day and working towards a stronger future with better heal... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | The Growing Challenges Of Emergency Medicine | There is no imaginable reality where accidents and emergencies cease to exist. By the very nature of both of those terms, unplanned events occur, often requiring specialized, curated, emergent care. |
| Feb 24, 2021 | ENA, ACEP Applaud Bill to Address Health Care Workplace Violence | |
| Dec 22, 2020 | ACEP Applauds Congressional Action to Protect Patients from Surprise Medical Bills | |
| Oct 26, 2020 | As Stress during the Pandemic Grows, Nearly Half of Nation's Emergency Physicians Uncomfortable Seeking Mental Health Care | |
| Oct 23, 2020 | Top Minds in Emergency Medical Research Gather for ACEP20 Research Forum | |
| Feb 13, 2020 | When your Doctor is also a lobbyist: Inside the war over surprise medical bills | As surprise medical billing has emerged as a hot-button issue for voters, doctors, hospitals and insurers have been lobbying to protect their own money flows. All that lobbying meant nothing got passed last year.
Television and internet ads... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | When waiting feels immoral: Fairness in the emergency department calls for empathy from all of us | Mr. Kane is using one hand to clutch the plastic basin into which he is vomiting and gesturing hello with the other hand when I introduce myself to him in the emergency department triage area.
He has suffered from headaches ever since he ha... |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Hospitals’ new emergency department triage systems boost profits but compromise care | If you’ve needed emergency care in the last few years, you probably encountered this situation: Soon after entering the emergency department, you were asked to go to a triage area in the waiting room where a doctor, nurse practitioner, or p... |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Column:: Anthem expands its policy of punishing patients for ‘inappropriate’ ER visits | Over the last few months, Anthem, the nation’s biggest health insurer, has informed customers in several states that if they show up at the emergency room with a problem that later is deemed to have not been an emergency, their ER claim won... |
| Jan 19, 2018 | Taking a grassroots approach to fighting the opioid epidemic | For many physicians, developing an ongoing relationship with patients is a rewarding part of the job. That’s not the case for emergency physicians like me — we’d rather not see the same patients over and over again, especially those with su... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | ER docs fight back against Cigna ‘TV doctors’ ad (watch) | Cigna has been running this humorous commercial for a couple of months, featuring actors who have famously played physicians on TV over the past four decades.
According to NBC News, this ad stars: Patrick Dempsey, who was Dr. Derek “McDream... |
| Jun 11, 2014 | Which mobile health innovations are helping to reduce language barriers in healthcare? | Update Canopy Apps With the support of an NIH Small Business Innovation Research grant, New York-based Canopy Apps developed a multilingual medical translator platform to explain complex medical concepts to non-English speaking patients. In... |
| Video of a dramatic Coast Guard rescue shows what happens if there's an emergency on a cruise ship 100 miles offshore | Video of a dramatic Coast Guard rescue shows what happens if there's an emergency on a cruise ship 100 miles offshore
Advertisement
Hannah ToweyMay 24, 2023, 20:06 IST
Courtesy of US Coast Guard Pacific Northwest
The Coast Guard rescue... |
| In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures | The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz. He would go for runs, only to find himself passing the white bulk of mobile morgues, refrigeration whirring — an... |
| Which mobile health innovations are helping to reduce language barriers in healthcare? | Updates below The Affordable Care Act has increased the number of patients in the healthcare system, including non-English speakers. The non-English speaking patient population in the U.S. accounts for an estimated 30 million people. Naviga... |
| ER docs fight back against Cigna ‘TV doctors’ ad (watch) | Cigna has been running this humorous commercial for a couple of months, featuring actors who have famously played physicians on TV over the past four decades.
According to NBC News, this ad stars: Patrick Dempsey, who was Dr. Derek “McDream... |
| U.S. Covid public health emergency ends, leaving behind a battered health system | The Biden administration’s decision to end the emergency comes as deaths and hospitalizations from Covid are at their lowest point since March 2020.
Hospitals will lose flexibility to add bed capacity if Covid surges, and the CDC will have ... |
| When your Doctor is also a lobbyist: Inside the war over surprise medical bills | When Carol Pak-Teng, an emergency room doctor in New Jersey, hosted a fundraiser in December for Democratic freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski, her guests, mostly doctors, were pleased when she steered the conversation to surprise medical bills.
... |
