Future of Emergency Medicine Beyond the Emergency Department

Emergency care providers need to recognize that care must extend beyond hospital walls, said Dr. Rahul Sharma, chair of emergency medicine at 麻豆传媒高清版, in a new commentary in NEJM Catalyst.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency departments overhauled their operations, while patients and providers relied more than ever on digital platforms.

"One thing that the pandemic did is that it forced us, not only as emergency providers and departments, but as health care leaders, to rethink the way we provide care and really reimagine the delivery of care,鈥 said Dr. Sharma, who is also emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He co-authored the article, which聽聽online Dec. 21, with聽,聽senior vice president of healthcare delivery innovation at聽聽in Philadelphia.

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