Background: Hospital discharge summaries are critical to transitions of care as they are oftentimes the only substantive form of communication that accompanies patients to their next care setting. The lack of interoperability in our healthcare IT ecosystem amplifies the need for discharge summaries to mitigate subsequent duplication of services and increased costs. These documents must […]

Background: Design thinking is a framework for creative problem solving. When the design thinking process (often leveraged in fields outside of healthcare delivery) is applied, it leads to a human-centered path to innovation. The infusion of deep empathy, holistic examination, inclusive collaboration, and effective iteration fosters sustainable solutions for complex human concerns. In traditional problem-solving, […]

Background: As hospital medicine looks to the future, we carry forward achievements and lessons learned from the past three years. In our large and diverse health system (with 14 acute care hospitals that serve adult inpatients from a populous catchment area, ranging in type from quaternary/academic to community based) we found we can best support […]