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The GW Department of Emergency Medicine provides emergency patient care to three hospitals, educates the next generation of health professionals and provides a wide range of innovative emergency medicine consulting services.

The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) of The George Washington University is actively involved in a wide range of Emergency Medicine-related clinical, educational, research, and consulting programs. In support of our medical student, resident, and fellowship education programs and clinical research programs, the DEM staffs the ED’s of three hospitals including one hospital-based Hyperbarics / Wound Care program. The DEM also offers a wide range of Emergency Medicine consulting activities including: medical support for the travel assistance and commercial shipping industries, staffing solutions for remote clinics, telemedicine-related services, community-oriented emergency care programs.

Our mission is to provide excellent emergency patient care, train the next generation of health professionals, create new knowledge in the fields of Emergency Medicine and Emergency Management, and continually innovate.

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Overview Maritime Medical Access Worldwide Emergency Communications Center

Telemedicine Solutions Latest News Follow the Worldwide Emergency Communications Center on Facebook to see how we're changing the field of Healthcare and Telehealth. Click here Academic Leaders in Delivering Customized Telehealth Solutions Telemedicine is essentially the practice of medicine at a distance and includes a growing variety of applications and services using two-way video, email,wireless phones and other forms of telecommunications technology. For over 20 years, the Department of Emergency Medicine has specialized in delivering comprehensive telemedicine solutions and services to patients and providers around the world. The Worldwide Emergency Communications Center (WECC) acts as the operational hub to clinical and cognitive telemedicine consults at the GW-MFA. As an academic leader in telemedicine, we continuously connect shipping vessels, yachts, aircrafts, correctional facilities, research teams and organizations around the globe to leading GW-MFA providers in the following specialty areas: Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, ENT, Infectious Disease and Orthopedics. The Department also consults extensively on telehealth and is available to assist clients in the development, implementation and adoption of telemedicine programs. With over twenty years of experience in both the domestic and international theatre our team is available to help other healthcare facilities, organizations and teams navigate the ever changing field of telehealth including but not limited to: regulation, licensing, reimbursement, and business models. To learn more about the Department's vast experience and impressive portfolio of telemedicine services, please contact: knorbury@mfa.gwu.edu Research Research - The Department of Emergency medicine is committed to advancing the development of wireless medical solutions through various telemedicine and mobile health research projects. McKesson Foundation Awards $1.3M in mHealth Research Grants Services Maritime Medical Access (MMA) provides shipping vessels and yachts 24/7 medical access to GW Board Certified emergency medicine physicians. Click here to read more Worldwide Emergency Communications The Worldwide Emergency Communications Center (WECC) is the communications hub to all of the department’s telemedicine initiatives. Staffed 24/7 by medically trained operators the WECC allows us to deploy the very latest in telemedicine technology to provide expert medical advice to all corners of the world. Click here to read more Featured Case Study In January, 2010 a researcher located in a remote station in Antarctica sent an email to Maritime Medical Access (MMA) at the George Washington University requesting a specialty consult with an ENT. The patient complained of a sore throat and abscess on her tonsils. Less than 3 hours later, Maritime Medical Access was able to arrange...Click here to read more Useful telemedicine link(s): The American Telemedicine Association Center for Telehealth and E-Law DigiGoneTM Video Conferencing To arrange a live demo of our telemedicine capabilities via VTC please call 202-741-2918.