AAEM Committees

The Mission of the AAEM Informatics Committee

Informatics should be a service to the clinician and patient. This committee will participate in efforts to use informatics to enhance patient care and safety. Informatics is also a key to training and certifying the skills of physicians – the committee will cooperate with efforts to develop tools for emergency medicine education. Finally, information is critical to the livelihood of the emergency physician –this committee will support efforts to use information systems to better track income and performance by individual physicians.

Approved by the AAEM board of directors, November 13, 2006