Emergency Medicine

Programme

 

The Emergency Care Activity & Profile (EC-AP) dashboard is a tool developed by the HSE Integrated Information Service (IIS) and the Emergency Medicine Programme (EMP) to support Emergency Departments (EDs) with relevant clinical and managerial data.  

The system (described here) can display close to real-time information about the activity in the ED and compare it to the national average. It can also provide this information for time periods specified by the user and compare “like with like”, e.g. average attendances on a particular day of each week.

Focus this year has been on developing a robust process for allowing relevant staff access to the dashboard. The next stage of the project is the expansion of data to cover Injury Units and allow additional data availability  which will include ED resources and issues log for each ED and IU.

The system allows staff to make best use of the data and streamline accessibility processes. If you are interested in becoming an EC-AP champion at your ED site or would like to access the EC-AP database, please contact emp@rsci.ie