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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

Patel, MD, MPH, MBA, is a hospitalist and digital health innovator with a strong focus on telemedicine and clinical informatics. Dr. Patel currently serves as a telemedicine and clinical informatics leader at Ballad Health, a 21-hospital integrated health system. Published July 26, 2023. Published October 11, 2023.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

One positive change that came about was the lifting of restrictions around the use of telemedicine. Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. The pandemic was horrific in many ways. Joe: Right.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

AHRQ research and guidelines played a key role in lowering the incidence of hospital-acquired infections — such as deadly blood infections caused by contaminated IV lines, which fell 28% from 2015 to 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. million, he said.