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EMA » News » 'Bill Clinton Effect' Substantiated by EMA Bio-surveillance System
'Bill Clinton Effect' Substantiated by EMA Bio-surveillance SystemDate: September 10, 2004This release was sent out nationally to all major markets, and to the attention of the appropriate healthcare media contacts at newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations. �Bill Clinton Effect� Substantiated by EMA Bio-surveillance System Livingston, NJ -When news of former President Bill Clinton�s experience with chest pains and his impending cardiac bypass surgery hit the streets, hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers in the Northeast reportedly had an increase in cardiac patients. Referred to as �the Bill Clinton Effect,� the talked-about increase in cardiac patients seeking care has now been substantiated by Emergency Medical Associates� (EMA) bio-surveillance system. Reports of Clinton�s health woes were first reported on September 3rd, with newspaper accounts appearing nationally in September 4th editions. On September 6th, EMA�s bio-surveillance noted an 11% increase in emergency department visits with patients complaining of chest pain (over the historical average for that date), followed by a 76% increase in chest pain visits on September 7th, and a 53% increase in chest pain visits on September 8th. EMA, a physician owned and managed Emergency Medicine physician group providing services to 15 hospitals in New York and New Jersey, built and maintains a comprehensive business intelligence system, adapted for bio/syndromic surveillance. As a result, EMA has been working on projects with the NJ and NY state departments of health, NYC Department of Health, the CDC, and the Department of Defense�s Essence Project. According to EMA President, Charles Grunau, MD. FACEP, �we believe our emergency department software is the most proven and sophisticated in the country. It makes perfect sense that we would be the first to be able to substantiate this phenomenon, previously reported only anecdotally." While working with these agencies, EMA�s intelligence system, eMARS (Emergency Medicine Analysis and Reporting System), has been modified to allow for analysis of ED encounter data and placement of patients into syndromic groups based on ICD9 logic developed by the CDC and Essence, and patient complaint logic developed initially by the New York City DOH and modified by the New York State DOH. As a result, eMARS can now produce reports on almost real time patient visits by each syndromic group for each day using the patient�s presenting complaint. It is reports like these that very few participants in the bio-surveillance arena, both public and private, are capable of producing and disseminating. EMA treats approximately 630,000 emergency department patients annually and has over 4 million patient encounters in its eMARS data warehouse. For more information about EMA, please call Lee Haberman, Director of Sales & Marketing, at 877 692-4665 or visit www.EMA-ED.com.
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