Nick Fitterman, MD, SFHM, vice chair of hospital medicine for the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y., and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y., discusses how hospital medicine factors into population health—where is the intersection and what is the hospitalist’s role?
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