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Hospital Medicine Exchange Adds Mobile App to Mark Its 3rd Birthday
Three years ago, SHM launched Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX), an online collaborative forum designed to foster thoughtful discussions related to the hospital medicine movement, facilitate networking among SHM members, and house shared resources and best practices in the field.
In celebration of this milestone, SHM has unveiled a new native mobile app for HMX, ensuring that SHM members have access to insight and answers from thousands of other members, wherever they are.
The redesigned app features a new user interface, including easy access to your communities as well as SHM’s website, social media, and The Hospital Leader blog. Not only is the new app easy to use, but, once you are online, you can be a part of the vibrant conversations taking place among thousands of hospitalists across the country.
After you download the new app from the iTunes or Google Play stores, log in using your SHM username and password on your tablet or smartphone to:
- Quickly scan through and engage in discussions in your favorite communities, including HMX Open Forum;
- Connect and network with fellow SHM members across the country by clicking on “People”;
- Check your private messages with Inbox; and
- Access resources relevant to your everyday practice in the Libraries.
“It is a great app, and I love the shortcuts on the home screen.” —Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD, hospitalist, Piedmont Healthcare, Acworth, Ga., in a posting to the HMX Open Forum
Members already are responding to the new and improved HMX mobile app. Hospitalist Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD of Piedmont Healthcare in Acworth, Ga., posted in HMX Open Forum, “It is a great app, and I love the shortcuts on the home screen.”
The new HMX mobile app is one of many recent HMX enhancements. HMX is constantly growing and launching new communities for members. For example, the Patient Experience community and the Women in Hospital Medicine community were most recently launched. Join these and other communities to share your thoughts on topics ranging from admissions to pediatrics and everything in between.
Get involved now by downloading the new app.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
Three years ago, SHM launched Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX), an online collaborative forum designed to foster thoughtful discussions related to the hospital medicine movement, facilitate networking among SHM members, and house shared resources and best practices in the field.
In celebration of this milestone, SHM has unveiled a new native mobile app for HMX, ensuring that SHM members have access to insight and answers from thousands of other members, wherever they are.
The redesigned app features a new user interface, including easy access to your communities as well as SHM’s website, social media, and The Hospital Leader blog. Not only is the new app easy to use, but, once you are online, you can be a part of the vibrant conversations taking place among thousands of hospitalists across the country.
After you download the new app from the iTunes or Google Play stores, log in using your SHM username and password on your tablet or smartphone to:
- Quickly scan through and engage in discussions in your favorite communities, including HMX Open Forum;
- Connect and network with fellow SHM members across the country by clicking on “People”;
- Check your private messages with Inbox; and
- Access resources relevant to your everyday practice in the Libraries.
“It is a great app, and I love the shortcuts on the home screen.” —Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD, hospitalist, Piedmont Healthcare, Acworth, Ga., in a posting to the HMX Open Forum
Members already are responding to the new and improved HMX mobile app. Hospitalist Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD of Piedmont Healthcare in Acworth, Ga., posted in HMX Open Forum, “It is a great app, and I love the shortcuts on the home screen.”
The new HMX mobile app is one of many recent HMX enhancements. HMX is constantly growing and launching new communities for members. For example, the Patient Experience community and the Women in Hospital Medicine community were most recently launched. Join these and other communities to share your thoughts on topics ranging from admissions to pediatrics and everything in between.
Get involved now by downloading the new app.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
Three years ago, SHM launched Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX), an online collaborative forum designed to foster thoughtful discussions related to the hospital medicine movement, facilitate networking among SHM members, and house shared resources and best practices in the field.
In celebration of this milestone, SHM has unveiled a new native mobile app for HMX, ensuring that SHM members have access to insight and answers from thousands of other members, wherever they are.
The redesigned app features a new user interface, including easy access to your communities as well as SHM’s website, social media, and The Hospital Leader blog. Not only is the new app easy to use, but, once you are online, you can be a part of the vibrant conversations taking place among thousands of hospitalists across the country.
After you download the new app from the iTunes or Google Play stores, log in using your SHM username and password on your tablet or smartphone to:
- Quickly scan through and engage in discussions in your favorite communities, including HMX Open Forum;
- Connect and network with fellow SHM members across the country by clicking on “People”;
- Check your private messages with Inbox; and
- Access resources relevant to your everyday practice in the Libraries.
“It is a great app, and I love the shortcuts on the home screen.” —Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD, hospitalist, Piedmont Healthcare, Acworth, Ga., in a posting to the HMX Open Forum
Members already are responding to the new and improved HMX mobile app. Hospitalist Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD of Piedmont Healthcare in Acworth, Ga., posted in HMX Open Forum, “It is a great app, and I love the shortcuts on the home screen.”
The new HMX mobile app is one of many recent HMX enhancements. HMX is constantly growing and launching new communities for members. For example, the Patient Experience community and the Women in Hospital Medicine community were most recently launched. Join these and other communities to share your thoughts on topics ranging from admissions to pediatrics and everything in between.
Get involved now by downloading the new app.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
Top Trends at Society of Hospital Medicine for 2016
Ready or not, 2016 is almost here, and SHM is gearing up for another year jam packed with exciting, enriching opportunities for hospitalists and their teams. Here are 10 things to have on your radar as we head into the new year.
1 Hospital Medicine 2016: March 6–9, 2016
This year’s annual meeting in San Diego promises to be the biggest yet, with new tracks in Co-Management/Perioperative Medicine, Health IT for Hospitalists, and Post-Acute Care—and opportunities to connect and collaborate with a vibrant community of hospital medicine professionals from around the nation. Register before early bird rates end on Jan. 11, 2016!
2 The Year of the Hospitalist
In celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the coining of the word “hospitalist,” SHM is preparing for a yearlong series of special events, contests, and opportunities. Follow SHM on Twitter at @SHMLive, and visit Hospital Medicine for the latest news!
3 Get Engaged with Public Policy
Healthcare legislation is constantly evolving, and hospitalists play an important role in advocating for hospitalized patients and the hospital medicine movement. SHM is an active voice in many conversations on policy development and reform. Sign up for the Grassroots Network now to stay updated on developments in healthcare policy, share your experiences with healthcare programs, and even participate in policy forums.
4 Fight the Resistance Campaign to Promote Antibiotic Stewardship
SHM is partnering with the CDC to change hospital culture and, in turn, change antibiotic prescription behaviors to prevent antibiotic resistance. Learn how you can be a part of the campaign, and download the campaign posters—featuring striking designs inspired by 1940s propaganda posters.
5 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Survey
The 2016 State of Hospital Medicine survey will take place January through March, with the release of the report scheduled for September. The survey consists of comprehensive, current information crucial to understanding the hospital medicine landscape and making better decisions in the hospital. Visit SHM’s website to find out how you can participate.
6 Expansion of the Quality Improvement Portfolio
SHM’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement continues to develop guides, toolkits, and programs to meet the evolving needs of hospital-based clinicians and improve the care of hospitalized patients. New additions to the portfolio include resources for VTE, chronic heart failure, delirium, anemia, and end-of-life care.
7 SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Applications
Student members of SHM could be eligible to apply for an SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant, including funding to complete scholarly work with an active SHM mentor in a project related to patient safety, quality improvement, or other hospital medicine-related fields. The deadline to apply is Feb. 15, 2016.
8 Innovative Additions to SHM’s Digital Learning Offerings
In addition to SHM SPARK, an MOC preparation tool for the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine exam, and SHMConsults, online modules for consultative and perioperative medicine, look for new SHM Learning Portal activities in 2016, like “Management of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation,” “Managing Pain in Postoperative Patients: What the Hospitalist Needs to Know,” and “Perioperative Bridging of Anticoagulant Theory.”
9 Get #SHeMpowered on Social Media
Have a success story to share about how SHM helped you advance your career or enhance patient care in your hospital? Maybe you improved your clinical skills at the annual meeting or improved care transitions with Project BOOST? Shout it from the rooftops—tweet @SHMLive and use the hashtag #SHeMpowered. If you haven’t followed SHM on Twitter, head over to @SHMLive.
10 “Are You Number 15,000?”
This is a question you want to say “yes” to! SHM is poised to welcome its 15,000th member in early 2016 as part of the Year of the Hospitalist. The 15,000th member will receive an assortment of exciting prizes, including complimentary registration to Hospital Medicine 2016 in San Diego. Know someone who is interested in joining? Spread the word!
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
Ready or not, 2016 is almost here, and SHM is gearing up for another year jam packed with exciting, enriching opportunities for hospitalists and their teams. Here are 10 things to have on your radar as we head into the new year.
1 Hospital Medicine 2016: March 6–9, 2016
This year’s annual meeting in San Diego promises to be the biggest yet, with new tracks in Co-Management/Perioperative Medicine, Health IT for Hospitalists, and Post-Acute Care—and opportunities to connect and collaborate with a vibrant community of hospital medicine professionals from around the nation. Register before early bird rates end on Jan. 11, 2016!
2 The Year of the Hospitalist
In celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the coining of the word “hospitalist,” SHM is preparing for a yearlong series of special events, contests, and opportunities. Follow SHM on Twitter at @SHMLive, and visit Hospital Medicine for the latest news!
3 Get Engaged with Public Policy
Healthcare legislation is constantly evolving, and hospitalists play an important role in advocating for hospitalized patients and the hospital medicine movement. SHM is an active voice in many conversations on policy development and reform. Sign up for the Grassroots Network now to stay updated on developments in healthcare policy, share your experiences with healthcare programs, and even participate in policy forums.
4 Fight the Resistance Campaign to Promote Antibiotic Stewardship
SHM is partnering with the CDC to change hospital culture and, in turn, change antibiotic prescription behaviors to prevent antibiotic resistance. Learn how you can be a part of the campaign, and download the campaign posters—featuring striking designs inspired by 1940s propaganda posters.
5 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Survey
The 2016 State of Hospital Medicine survey will take place January through March, with the release of the report scheduled for September. The survey consists of comprehensive, current information crucial to understanding the hospital medicine landscape and making better decisions in the hospital. Visit SHM’s website to find out how you can participate.
6 Expansion of the Quality Improvement Portfolio
SHM’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement continues to develop guides, toolkits, and programs to meet the evolving needs of hospital-based clinicians and improve the care of hospitalized patients. New additions to the portfolio include resources for VTE, chronic heart failure, delirium, anemia, and end-of-life care.
7 SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Applications
Student members of SHM could be eligible to apply for an SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant, including funding to complete scholarly work with an active SHM mentor in a project related to patient safety, quality improvement, or other hospital medicine-related fields. The deadline to apply is Feb. 15, 2016.
8 Innovative Additions to SHM’s Digital Learning Offerings
In addition to SHM SPARK, an MOC preparation tool for the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine exam, and SHMConsults, online modules for consultative and perioperative medicine, look for new SHM Learning Portal activities in 2016, like “Management of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation,” “Managing Pain in Postoperative Patients: What the Hospitalist Needs to Know,” and “Perioperative Bridging of Anticoagulant Theory.”
9 Get #SHeMpowered on Social Media
Have a success story to share about how SHM helped you advance your career or enhance patient care in your hospital? Maybe you improved your clinical skills at the annual meeting or improved care transitions with Project BOOST? Shout it from the rooftops—tweet @SHMLive and use the hashtag #SHeMpowered. If you haven’t followed SHM on Twitter, head over to @SHMLive.
10 “Are You Number 15,000?”
This is a question you want to say “yes” to! SHM is poised to welcome its 15,000th member in early 2016 as part of the Year of the Hospitalist. The 15,000th member will receive an assortment of exciting prizes, including complimentary registration to Hospital Medicine 2016 in San Diego. Know someone who is interested in joining? Spread the word!
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
Ready or not, 2016 is almost here, and SHM is gearing up for another year jam packed with exciting, enriching opportunities for hospitalists and their teams. Here are 10 things to have on your radar as we head into the new year.
1 Hospital Medicine 2016: March 6–9, 2016
This year’s annual meeting in San Diego promises to be the biggest yet, with new tracks in Co-Management/Perioperative Medicine, Health IT for Hospitalists, and Post-Acute Care—and opportunities to connect and collaborate with a vibrant community of hospital medicine professionals from around the nation. Register before early bird rates end on Jan. 11, 2016!
2 The Year of the Hospitalist
In celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the coining of the word “hospitalist,” SHM is preparing for a yearlong series of special events, contests, and opportunities. Follow SHM on Twitter at @SHMLive, and visit Hospital Medicine for the latest news!
3 Get Engaged with Public Policy
Healthcare legislation is constantly evolving, and hospitalists play an important role in advocating for hospitalized patients and the hospital medicine movement. SHM is an active voice in many conversations on policy development and reform. Sign up for the Grassroots Network now to stay updated on developments in healthcare policy, share your experiences with healthcare programs, and even participate in policy forums.
4 Fight the Resistance Campaign to Promote Antibiotic Stewardship
SHM is partnering with the CDC to change hospital culture and, in turn, change antibiotic prescription behaviors to prevent antibiotic resistance. Learn how you can be a part of the campaign, and download the campaign posters—featuring striking designs inspired by 1940s propaganda posters.
5 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Survey
The 2016 State of Hospital Medicine survey will take place January through March, with the release of the report scheduled for September. The survey consists of comprehensive, current information crucial to understanding the hospital medicine landscape and making better decisions in the hospital. Visit SHM’s website to find out how you can participate.
6 Expansion of the Quality Improvement Portfolio
SHM’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement continues to develop guides, toolkits, and programs to meet the evolving needs of hospital-based clinicians and improve the care of hospitalized patients. New additions to the portfolio include resources for VTE, chronic heart failure, delirium, anemia, and end-of-life care.
7 SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Applications
Student members of SHM could be eligible to apply for an SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant, including funding to complete scholarly work with an active SHM mentor in a project related to patient safety, quality improvement, or other hospital medicine-related fields. The deadline to apply is Feb. 15, 2016.
8 Innovative Additions to SHM’s Digital Learning Offerings
In addition to SHM SPARK, an MOC preparation tool for the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine exam, and SHMConsults, online modules for consultative and perioperative medicine, look for new SHM Learning Portal activities in 2016, like “Management of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation,” “Managing Pain in Postoperative Patients: What the Hospitalist Needs to Know,” and “Perioperative Bridging of Anticoagulant Theory.”
9 Get #SHeMpowered on Social Media
Have a success story to share about how SHM helped you advance your career or enhance patient care in your hospital? Maybe you improved your clinical skills at the annual meeting or improved care transitions with Project BOOST? Shout it from the rooftops—tweet @SHMLive and use the hashtag #SHeMpowered. If you haven’t followed SHM on Twitter, head over to @SHMLive.
10 “Are You Number 15,000?”
This is a question you want to say “yes” to! SHM is poised to welcome its 15,000th member in early 2016 as part of the Year of the Hospitalist. The 15,000th member will receive an assortment of exciting prizes, including complimentary registration to Hospital Medicine 2016 in San Diego. Know someone who is interested in joining? Spread the word!
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
Practice Administrator Elected Vice President of SHM Maryland Chapter
When you ask Tiffani Panek, division administrator for the division of hospital medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (BMC) in Baltimore, Md., about her thoughts on the future of hospital medicine, her passion and enthusiasm are immediately apparent. After earning SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine, Panek was elected vice president of SHM’s Maryland chapter. She is the only practice administrator currently in chapter leadership.
Her motto? “I’m a hospitalist who happens not to be a clinician.”
The Hospitalist recently spoke with Panek about the future of the HM movement and the roles nonphysician staff play in advancing hospital medicine.
Question: Tell us about your role as division administrator for BMC’s division of hospital medicine.
Answer: As part of the executive leadership team, I serve as the administrative counterpart to site director Flora Kisuule, MD, MPH. I am also the program coordinator for the Academic Hospitalist Fellowship Program and partner with Dr. Kisuule and SHM board member and senior physician advisor Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, on the program’s growing international work to train academic hospitalists and future leaders of hospitalist programs.
Q: What led you to join SHM and get involved in the Practice Administrators Committee?
A: I had never heard of hospital medicine before I started with [my] division, and I really wanted to learn all I could. I was fortunate enough that Dr. Howell was a part of SHM very early, and as my director, he encouraged me to get involved. In the beginning, it was really about educating myself, but after a few years, when I was immersed and truly in love with hospital medicine, I wanted to get more involved and be a part of the change and innovation that SHM and hospital medicine represent. The movement touches so many people in such a direct way. We are in the trenches, taking care of people when they are at their most vulnerable.
Q: How were you able to take what you learned from SHM Leadership Academy and apply it to your professional life and new chapter leader position?
A: I should make a cross-stitch of one of my favorite takeaways: “They won’t care what you know until they know that you care!” The personality and communication lessons have not only helped me develop my own communication skills, but they have helped me become a better supervisor and mentor. I often return to my notes about leading through adversity when faced with challenges at our own facility. I want to bring all of that to the table as the new Maryland chapter vice president, to help us improve the diversity of the chapter and ultimately the hospital medicine movement.
Q: Moving forward, how do you see your role in SHM—and SHM as an organization— impacting positive change for hospitalized patients and the hospitalists who serve them?
A: As an active member, I am excited to leverage SHM, the Practice Administrators Committee, the local chapter, and other meetings to unite talented people working in hospital medicine and work towards the same mission: improving care of hospitalized patients. In addition to bringing our subspecialty colleagues into the fold, we also must improve our inclusivity of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, and, of course, our administrators. Every single person should feel invested and valued. The diversity of hospital medicine, and of SHM, sets our specialty apart from many others, and we are much stronger for it. There are no healthcare professionals better situated to improve the quality and cost of care than hospitalists.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
When you ask Tiffani Panek, division administrator for the division of hospital medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (BMC) in Baltimore, Md., about her thoughts on the future of hospital medicine, her passion and enthusiasm are immediately apparent. After earning SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine, Panek was elected vice president of SHM’s Maryland chapter. She is the only practice administrator currently in chapter leadership.
Her motto? “I’m a hospitalist who happens not to be a clinician.”
The Hospitalist recently spoke with Panek about the future of the HM movement and the roles nonphysician staff play in advancing hospital medicine.
Question: Tell us about your role as division administrator for BMC’s division of hospital medicine.
Answer: As part of the executive leadership team, I serve as the administrative counterpart to site director Flora Kisuule, MD, MPH. I am also the program coordinator for the Academic Hospitalist Fellowship Program and partner with Dr. Kisuule and SHM board member and senior physician advisor Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, on the program’s growing international work to train academic hospitalists and future leaders of hospitalist programs.
Q: What led you to join SHM and get involved in the Practice Administrators Committee?
A: I had never heard of hospital medicine before I started with [my] division, and I really wanted to learn all I could. I was fortunate enough that Dr. Howell was a part of SHM very early, and as my director, he encouraged me to get involved. In the beginning, it was really about educating myself, but after a few years, when I was immersed and truly in love with hospital medicine, I wanted to get more involved and be a part of the change and innovation that SHM and hospital medicine represent. The movement touches so many people in such a direct way. We are in the trenches, taking care of people when they are at their most vulnerable.
Q: How were you able to take what you learned from SHM Leadership Academy and apply it to your professional life and new chapter leader position?
A: I should make a cross-stitch of one of my favorite takeaways: “They won’t care what you know until they know that you care!” The personality and communication lessons have not only helped me develop my own communication skills, but they have helped me become a better supervisor and mentor. I often return to my notes about leading through adversity when faced with challenges at our own facility. I want to bring all of that to the table as the new Maryland chapter vice president, to help us improve the diversity of the chapter and ultimately the hospital medicine movement.
Q: Moving forward, how do you see your role in SHM—and SHM as an organization— impacting positive change for hospitalized patients and the hospitalists who serve them?
A: As an active member, I am excited to leverage SHM, the Practice Administrators Committee, the local chapter, and other meetings to unite talented people working in hospital medicine and work towards the same mission: improving care of hospitalized patients. In addition to bringing our subspecialty colleagues into the fold, we also must improve our inclusivity of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, and, of course, our administrators. Every single person should feel invested and valued. The diversity of hospital medicine, and of SHM, sets our specialty apart from many others, and we are much stronger for it. There are no healthcare professionals better situated to improve the quality and cost of care than hospitalists.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
When you ask Tiffani Panek, division administrator for the division of hospital medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (BMC) in Baltimore, Md., about her thoughts on the future of hospital medicine, her passion and enthusiasm are immediately apparent. After earning SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine, Panek was elected vice president of SHM’s Maryland chapter. She is the only practice administrator currently in chapter leadership.
Her motto? “I’m a hospitalist who happens not to be a clinician.”
The Hospitalist recently spoke with Panek about the future of the HM movement and the roles nonphysician staff play in advancing hospital medicine.
Question: Tell us about your role as division administrator for BMC’s division of hospital medicine.
Answer: As part of the executive leadership team, I serve as the administrative counterpart to site director Flora Kisuule, MD, MPH. I am also the program coordinator for the Academic Hospitalist Fellowship Program and partner with Dr. Kisuule and SHM board member and senior physician advisor Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, on the program’s growing international work to train academic hospitalists and future leaders of hospitalist programs.
Q: What led you to join SHM and get involved in the Practice Administrators Committee?
A: I had never heard of hospital medicine before I started with [my] division, and I really wanted to learn all I could. I was fortunate enough that Dr. Howell was a part of SHM very early, and as my director, he encouraged me to get involved. In the beginning, it was really about educating myself, but after a few years, when I was immersed and truly in love with hospital medicine, I wanted to get more involved and be a part of the change and innovation that SHM and hospital medicine represent. The movement touches so many people in such a direct way. We are in the trenches, taking care of people when they are at their most vulnerable.
Q: How were you able to take what you learned from SHM Leadership Academy and apply it to your professional life and new chapter leader position?
A: I should make a cross-stitch of one of my favorite takeaways: “They won’t care what you know until they know that you care!” The personality and communication lessons have not only helped me develop my own communication skills, but they have helped me become a better supervisor and mentor. I often return to my notes about leading through adversity when faced with challenges at our own facility. I want to bring all of that to the table as the new Maryland chapter vice president, to help us improve the diversity of the chapter and ultimately the hospital medicine movement.
Q: Moving forward, how do you see your role in SHM—and SHM as an organization— impacting positive change for hospitalized patients and the hospitalists who serve them?
A: As an active member, I am excited to leverage SHM, the Practice Administrators Committee, the local chapter, and other meetings to unite talented people working in hospital medicine and work towards the same mission: improving care of hospitalized patients. In addition to bringing our subspecialty colleagues into the fold, we also must improve our inclusivity of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, and, of course, our administrators. Every single person should feel invested and valued. The diversity of hospital medicine, and of SHM, sets our specialty apart from many others, and we are much stronger for it. There are no healthcare professionals better situated to improve the quality and cost of care than hospitalists.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
Revolutionizing Quality Improvement in Hospital Medicine
As the senior physician advisor to SHM’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement, Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, bridges the gap between clinical expertise and project support and development. The Hospitalist recently had a conversation with Dr. Howell, a past president of SHM, to learn more about his role and how the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement is revolutionizing quality improvement (QI) in hospital medicine.
Question: What is your role as the senior physician advisor to The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement?
Answer: I see my role as the intersection of a Venn diagram; one circle involves my clinical know-how, and the other includes the proposals brought to the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement by hospitalists and healthcare professionals. Where those two circles intersect is where I am able to use my experience from the front line of patient care to validate potential projects.
In addition to project assessment, I monitor the pulse of healthcare professionals and hospital leadership to ensure we are meeting their needs, including our efforts of convening a recent summit, where hospitalist clinicians … weighed in on how our team could help them improve. I plan to share this feedback in an upcoming feature, centered on emerging topics in hospital medicine, including care transitions, high-risk medications, advance care planning, and others.
Q: Given your clinical experience and involvement with SHM, how would you say hospitalists are positioned to improve quality, safety, and patient outcomes?
appropriate prescribing practices, which will aid in slowing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and prevent the spread of resistant infections.
—Dr. Howell
A: We possess the necessary ingredients to develop a recipe for success in QI from both a clinical and an operational perspective. Hospital medicine is still a young, innovative field that is extremely open to change. Anyone who knows QI knows that it is all about effectively managing and responding to change. Hospitalists also are aware of how to operate in a highly matrixed environment and to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team, which are invaluable assets to implementing QI initiatives successfully and proactively monitoring their impact.
Q: What are the biggest assets the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement can offer hospitalists in their mission to improve patient care?
A: Our team has resources to help hospitalists improve their skills at whatever stage they are in their careers. If you are just beginning or trying to learn new things independently, you can explore the web-based materials and resource rooms. They are publicly accessible resources that can assist in informing quality improvement efforts in the hospital. For those looking to expand their skills in a more hands-on way, we offer a mentored implementation program, where hospitalists can receive guidance from expert mentors in a number of different clinical areas.
Q: How can the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement help hospitalists address emerging challenges in hospital medicine?
A: You cannot talk about the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement without mentioning signature mentored implementation programs like Project BOOST, focused on effective care transitions, and glycemic control—they are juggernauts for SHM’s portfolio because of their proven track records and sustainable frameworks for driving positive change. These two alone have already been implemented at over 400 facilities, with more inquiries each day.
With support from The Milbank Foundation, The Hastings Center and SHM have joined forces and will create new skills-based training resources and a QI framework to improve end-of-life care in the hospital. Our goal is to equip hospital clinicians with the requisite tools to provide adequate palliative care, especially given the policy landscape related to advance care planning discussions.
As antibiotic resistance emerges as a global issue, antibiotic stewardship has continued to be a high priority for hospitalists. After attending the related White House forum earlier this year, SHM committed to cultivating initiatives that emphasize appropriate prescribing practices, which will aid in slowing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and prevent the spread of resistant infections. SHM looks forward to making noteworthy contributions to this initiative, promoting awareness and behavior change through the “Fight the Resistance” campaign.
Q: What is one major takeaway about The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement hospitalists should know?
A: The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement is not an exclusive club—rather, it is like an open farmers’ market. Anyone with any amount of expertise can get resources through collaboration and partnership. Whether it is residents trying to improve the house staff or professors at major academic centers looking for research partners, The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement will welcome you to collaborate and link you to valuable resources.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
As the senior physician advisor to SHM’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement, Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, bridges the gap between clinical expertise and project support and development. The Hospitalist recently had a conversation with Dr. Howell, a past president of SHM, to learn more about his role and how the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement is revolutionizing quality improvement (QI) in hospital medicine.
Question: What is your role as the senior physician advisor to The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement?
Answer: I see my role as the intersection of a Venn diagram; one circle involves my clinical know-how, and the other includes the proposals brought to the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement by hospitalists and healthcare professionals. Where those two circles intersect is where I am able to use my experience from the front line of patient care to validate potential projects.
In addition to project assessment, I monitor the pulse of healthcare professionals and hospital leadership to ensure we are meeting their needs, including our efforts of convening a recent summit, where hospitalist clinicians … weighed in on how our team could help them improve. I plan to share this feedback in an upcoming feature, centered on emerging topics in hospital medicine, including care transitions, high-risk medications, advance care planning, and others.
Q: Given your clinical experience and involvement with SHM, how would you say hospitalists are positioned to improve quality, safety, and patient outcomes?
appropriate prescribing practices, which will aid in slowing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and prevent the spread of resistant infections.
—Dr. Howell
A: We possess the necessary ingredients to develop a recipe for success in QI from both a clinical and an operational perspective. Hospital medicine is still a young, innovative field that is extremely open to change. Anyone who knows QI knows that it is all about effectively managing and responding to change. Hospitalists also are aware of how to operate in a highly matrixed environment and to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team, which are invaluable assets to implementing QI initiatives successfully and proactively monitoring their impact.
Q: What are the biggest assets the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement can offer hospitalists in their mission to improve patient care?
A: Our team has resources to help hospitalists improve their skills at whatever stage they are in their careers. If you are just beginning or trying to learn new things independently, you can explore the web-based materials and resource rooms. They are publicly accessible resources that can assist in informing quality improvement efforts in the hospital. For those looking to expand their skills in a more hands-on way, we offer a mentored implementation program, where hospitalists can receive guidance from expert mentors in a number of different clinical areas.
Q: How can the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement help hospitalists address emerging challenges in hospital medicine?
A: You cannot talk about the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement without mentioning signature mentored implementation programs like Project BOOST, focused on effective care transitions, and glycemic control—they are juggernauts for SHM’s portfolio because of their proven track records and sustainable frameworks for driving positive change. These two alone have already been implemented at over 400 facilities, with more inquiries each day.
With support from The Milbank Foundation, The Hastings Center and SHM have joined forces and will create new skills-based training resources and a QI framework to improve end-of-life care in the hospital. Our goal is to equip hospital clinicians with the requisite tools to provide adequate palliative care, especially given the policy landscape related to advance care planning discussions.
As antibiotic resistance emerges as a global issue, antibiotic stewardship has continued to be a high priority for hospitalists. After attending the related White House forum earlier this year, SHM committed to cultivating initiatives that emphasize appropriate prescribing practices, which will aid in slowing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and prevent the spread of resistant infections. SHM looks forward to making noteworthy contributions to this initiative, promoting awareness and behavior change through the “Fight the Resistance” campaign.
Q: What is one major takeaway about The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement hospitalists should know?
A: The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement is not an exclusive club—rather, it is like an open farmers’ market. Anyone with any amount of expertise can get resources through collaboration and partnership. Whether it is residents trying to improve the house staff or professors at major academic centers looking for research partners, The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement will welcome you to collaborate and link you to valuable resources.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.
As the senior physician advisor to SHM’s Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement, Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, bridges the gap between clinical expertise and project support and development. The Hospitalist recently had a conversation with Dr. Howell, a past president of SHM, to learn more about his role and how the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement is revolutionizing quality improvement (QI) in hospital medicine.
Question: What is your role as the senior physician advisor to The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement?
Answer: I see my role as the intersection of a Venn diagram; one circle involves my clinical know-how, and the other includes the proposals brought to the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement by hospitalists and healthcare professionals. Where those two circles intersect is where I am able to use my experience from the front line of patient care to validate potential projects.
In addition to project assessment, I monitor the pulse of healthcare professionals and hospital leadership to ensure we are meeting their needs, including our efforts of convening a recent summit, where hospitalist clinicians … weighed in on how our team could help them improve. I plan to share this feedback in an upcoming feature, centered on emerging topics in hospital medicine, including care transitions, high-risk medications, advance care planning, and others.
Q: Given your clinical experience and involvement with SHM, how would you say hospitalists are positioned to improve quality, safety, and patient outcomes?
appropriate prescribing practices, which will aid in slowing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and prevent the spread of resistant infections.
—Dr. Howell
A: We possess the necessary ingredients to develop a recipe for success in QI from both a clinical and an operational perspective. Hospital medicine is still a young, innovative field that is extremely open to change. Anyone who knows QI knows that it is all about effectively managing and responding to change. Hospitalists also are aware of how to operate in a highly matrixed environment and to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team, which are invaluable assets to implementing QI initiatives successfully and proactively monitoring their impact.
Q: What are the biggest assets the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement can offer hospitalists in their mission to improve patient care?
A: Our team has resources to help hospitalists improve their skills at whatever stage they are in their careers. If you are just beginning or trying to learn new things independently, you can explore the web-based materials and resource rooms. They are publicly accessible resources that can assist in informing quality improvement efforts in the hospital. For those looking to expand their skills in a more hands-on way, we offer a mentored implementation program, where hospitalists can receive guidance from expert mentors in a number of different clinical areas.
Q: How can the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement help hospitalists address emerging challenges in hospital medicine?
A: You cannot talk about the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement without mentioning signature mentored implementation programs like Project BOOST, focused on effective care transitions, and glycemic control—they are juggernauts for SHM’s portfolio because of their proven track records and sustainable frameworks for driving positive change. These two alone have already been implemented at over 400 facilities, with more inquiries each day.
With support from The Milbank Foundation, The Hastings Center and SHM have joined forces and will create new skills-based training resources and a QI framework to improve end-of-life care in the hospital. Our goal is to equip hospital clinicians with the requisite tools to provide adequate palliative care, especially given the policy landscape related to advance care planning discussions.
As antibiotic resistance emerges as a global issue, antibiotic stewardship has continued to be a high priority for hospitalists. After attending the related White House forum earlier this year, SHM committed to cultivating initiatives that emphasize appropriate prescribing practices, which will aid in slowing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and prevent the spread of resistant infections. SHM looks forward to making noteworthy contributions to this initiative, promoting awareness and behavior change through the “Fight the Resistance” campaign.
Q: What is one major takeaway about The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement hospitalists should know?
A: The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement is not an exclusive club—rather, it is like an open farmers’ market. Anyone with any amount of expertise can get resources through collaboration and partnership. Whether it is residents trying to improve the house staff or professors at major academic centers looking for research partners, The Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement will welcome you to collaborate and link you to valuable resources.
Brett Radler is SHM’s communications coordinator.