Search results for "Technology"
A phone call is not enough
A recent review found that postdischarge contacts didn't budge readmissions. The lead author explains what that means for practice and research.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2025/02/12/a-phone-call-is-not-enough.htm
12 Feb 2025
Thinking harder about heparin
Hospitalists, ED physicians, and interventionalists could benefit from a chat about how they treat pulmonary embolisms.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2025/01/29/thinking-harder-about-heparin.htm
29 Jan 2025
Home telemonitoring may reduce readmissions in high-risk patients
A randomized trial at two tertiary care hospitals found that risk for death or readmission within 30 days was 18.2% in patients who received home telemonitoring after discharge versus 23.7% in those who received standard care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/03/3.htm
3 Feb 2021
July 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/
CT perfusion imaging not often available at hospitals treating acute ischemic stroke
In findings from a Texas Medicare cohort validated with national data, 3% of patients with acute ischemic stroke were evaluated with CT perfusion, and most cases were evaluated at hospitals that did not offer this test.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/31/4.htm
31 Mar 2021
Reflections on a future past
After medicine makes the transition from the electronic record to the subdermal medical chart, what will you do when your devices are down?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/04/reflections-on-a-future-past.htm
4 Dec 2024
Rural hospitals moving into the future
Technological innovations may offer solutions to the challenges facing rural hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/24/rural-hospitals-moving-into-the-future.htm
24 Jul 2024
Telehospitalist program reduced length of stay at a rural VHA hospital, study finds
Readmission rates did not improve with telemedicine, but patients and clinicians at both the hub and spoke hospitals were highly satisfied with a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) telehospitalist pilot program.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/24/3.htm
24 Feb 2021
July 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/
DocBOT
Does the patient need a diuretic, or a cat meme?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/04/docbot.htm
4 Dec 2024