Erie County Medical Center

This 583-bed medical center is one of the area’s leading health care providers. It serves as a regional center for trauma, burns, rehabilitation and cardiac care and is the region’s largest safety-net hospital.

E C M C exterior.

Located on the eastern side of Buffalo, this 583-bed acute care center admits patients from the local urban area, as well as a wide referral range that encompasses all eight counties of Western New York.

ECMC is a verified Level 1 Adult Trauma Center and a regional center for burn care, behavioral health services, transplantation, medical oncology and head & neck cancer care, and rehabilitation.

Case presentations span the range of disease states in internal medicine and general surgery, with many critically ill cases.

Training

At ECMC, you’ll provide IT support to the Physicians Advisory Committee.

You’ll gain flexibility and fluency working with multiple electronic health record (EHR) systems, including:

  • Meditech, this hospital’s fully integrated, interoperable EHR
  • Allscripts 
  • MIQS, dialysis-focused software 

During your training here, you’ll take on projects that address quality improvement, patient safety, management and organization change, and clinical laboratory systems.

Rotation

  • Inpatient Psychiatry and Dialysis Systems
Erie County Medical Center website

Location

Faculty

  • 6 departmental faculty