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AI In Hospital Medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to fundamentally transform hospital medicine, e.g., by enabling hospitals to deploy and manage their hospitalist resources efficiently, reducing the time hospitalists must spend on data entry and administrative tasks, providing early warning of...
Hybrid Hospitalist Or Fusion
Hybrid hospitalist is a term being heard with increasing frequency. What, exactly, makes a hospitalist or hospitalist practice a “hybrid”?Actually, the term has a number of different meanings, depending on the context. For instance it may refer to either Hospitalists who have another clinical...
Are Telehospitalist Services Right for My Hospital?
Is your hospital having trouble recruiting and/or retaining hospitalists? Are you having trouble getting doctors to cover certain shifts, like nights or weekends? Are some or all of your current onsite hospitalists overburdened?If so, you are not alone. According to theSociety of...
The Financial Case for Using Telehospitalists
You have read about the potential benefits of using telehospitalist services and are interested in exploring the possibilities further. However, you know that your CFO will need to see some evidence of the service’s positive impact on the hospital’s bottom line before proceeding....
The Hospitalist of the Future
The term “hospital of the future” is used frequently to refer not to a type of building, but rather to a set of emerging trends in hospital care. These trends are likely to have a profound impact, not only on hospitals’ physical facilities, but on the types of medicine practiced in them,...
The Importance of Telehospitalist Services in Rural Hospitals
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, telemedicine has emerged as a vital tool for delivering quality care to underserved populations. Among the various telemedicine applications, telehospitalist services stand out as a transformative solution,particularly for rural hospitals. These services...
Telehospitalists and the Resilient Hospital
COVID-19 placed an unprecedented strain on hospitals, testing their resilience in the face of a dangerous and poorly understood disease, inadequate bed capacity, staff shortages, supply chain problems, and financial stresses. Many of these challenges existed before COVID...
Recent Developments in Telehospitalist Services
Where did telehospitalist services originate, and where are they likely headed? Other blog posts in this series have mostly dealt with the specifics of setting up a telehospitalist service, but an understanding of the historical context in which telehospitalist services have developed,...
Setting Up a Telehospitalist Program
Previous blog posts have tried to help you to decide whether a telehospitalist program is right for your hospital. Assuming you have decided that it is, what should your first steps be? In this post, we provide a road-map for setting up a your telehospitalist program, which includes...
Telehospitalists' Contribution to Health Equity
It is our shared responsibility to ensure that everybody receives the health care they need, regardless of social or economic status. Telehealth technologies can assist care providers, including hospitalists, in reaching underserved groups such as low-income people,...
Telemedicine Applications in Nursing Homes
When speaking of potential telemedicine applications in nursing homes, we are referring to two types of care facility, i.e., intermediate care facilities (ICFs) and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). When this posting uses the term “nursing home”, it is generally referring only to ICFs and SNFs...
Beyond the Telemedicine Cart
The telemedicine cart is an indispensable component of any telehospitalist program, putting the virtual hospitalist ‘in the room” with their patient, even though they may be physically located miles away. With the collaboration of a bedside facilitator like a nurse or physician’s,....