National Emergency Care Enterprise: Advancing Care Through Collaboration: Workshop Summary

摘要

In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a series of three reports on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. These reports contained recommendations that called on the federal government and private stakeholders to initiate changes aimed at improving the emergency care system. Three years later, in May 2009, the IOM convened a workshop to examine the progress to date in achieving these objectives, and to help assess priorities for future action. One of the central recommendations of the IOM reports was that the federal government should more effectively coordinate the many emergency care-related activities that are now dispersed among various federal departments and agencies. Federal coordination of prehospital emergency care was already advancing through the Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services (FICEMS). Following the release of the IOM reports, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created the Emergency Care Coordination Center (ECCC) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to coordinate federal activities relating to hospital-based emergency care.