Erik J. Blutinger, MD, MSc, FACEP is as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Mount SInai Health System, Medical Director for the nationally recognized Community Paramedicine program, and part-time consultant for several start-up companies including RIVANNA (medical device) and VisualDx (clinical toolkit for practicing physicians). Dr. Blutinger completed his MD at the George Washington University School of Health Sciences, earned an MSC in Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP).
Dr. Blutinger’s work focuses on population-based quality improvement projects with the overall aim of delivering more timely and effective acute care, particularly through informatics-based interventions such as Telehealth, Point-of-Care testing, and clinical algorithms to identify populations most likely to benefit from these interventions. He has worked in multiple national healthcare systems and underserved communities, including townships in South Africa and Guatemala, Bhutan, India, and Austria.
As the Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Community Paramedicine program, Dr. Blutinger has spearheaded initiatives aiming for equitable access to digital health services for those most patients most likely to benefit. Additionally, Dr. Blutinger leads institutional initiatives to implement the CMMI Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) program as well as a collaboration with the New York City Fire Department and other NYC health systems to divert low-acuity 911 calls to hospital-based telemedicine programs for advanced clinical navigation. Dr. Blutinger is the site co-PI for the MIGHTy Heart clinical trial, evaluating whether Telehealth and Mobile Integrated Health can improve transitions of care after hospital discharge for patients with heart failure, which is currently recruiting 2100 patients across NYC.
Finally, Dr. Blutinger now serves on several national Committees to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), including their Ethics, and State Legislative and Regulatory Committees. He serves as first-author to numerous peer-reviewed publications, and has been featured in the US (CNN, MSNBC, NBC with Lester Holt, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal) and overseas (ABC World News, ITV, BBC) for his frontline clinical experience in the COVID19 pandemic.
