Emergency department doctors ask: “Where did all the patients go?”
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England, emergency department visits for medical emergencies declined by nearly a third.
Dr. Sayon Dutta is an Emergency Physician in the MGH Emergency Department (ED) and serves as the Physician Lead for Emergency Medicine and Clinical Decision Support at Partners eCare, which builds and maintains the Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) for the enterprise. He completed his training in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency and then joined as a research fellow at MGH during which time he earned a MPH in Quantitative Methods at the Harvard School of Public Health. As a fellow, he focused primarily on the role of information technology in humanitarian response. He subsequently joined the faculty at MGH and HMS, and in that role, he provides clinical care and performs research on the impact of clinical decision support within the EHR. In his role as a Physician Lead at Partners eCare he works with software developers to build and optimize the Epic EHR for clinical users.
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Mass General Emergency Medicine
55 Fruit St.
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Dr. Dutta's research focuses on informatics and applied information technologies to improve patient care.
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During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England, emergency department visits for medical emergencies declined by nearly a third.