Meeting
Abstract Number: 64
SHM Converge 2024
Background: With the advent of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), documentation occupies up to 50% of doctors’ time1 and prior work has revealed that internal medicine residents spend more than four hours daily on documentation2. Secure messaging (SM) has been recently integrated into the inpatient EMR system, allowing healthcare team members to directly message physicians; […]
Abstract Number: 273
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Early sepsis recognition and treatment can save lives. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services defines appropriate treatment using the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) components. To help improve sepsis identification, documentation, and organizational compliance with SEP-1, our hospital implemented a “best-practice alert” (BPA) comprised of Epic’s “sepsis score,” but the rates […]
Abstract Number: 293
SHM Converge 2024
Background: The Discharge Summary (DS) plays a vital role in transmitting key information about a patient’s hospital admission to their primary care clinician (PCC) and serves as a valuable information source for inpatient clinicians. However, current guidelines for DS creation tend to neglect the importance of prioritizing critical content. This oversight, coupled with the excessive […]
Abstract Number: 427
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Diagnose and treat. That is the role of the physician. But the practice of medicine in recent years has been beaten hollow; its patient mission eclipsed by unwieldy technology and its practitioners so inundated with documentation and data entry, resulting in disengaged, frustrated, and burned out clinicians. The hospitalist has access to the entirety […]