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As Wearable Monitors Proliferate, Hospitalists Weigh How to Use Them
February 3, 2025
Charumathi Raghu Subramanian, MD, a hospitalist and second-year clinical informatics fellow at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, remembers a patient in...
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Does AI Portend Sudden Transformations for Hospitalists?
February 3, 2025
Hospital medicine pioneer Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, chair of the department of medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), has tackled some of the big, transformative topics in...
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Efficacy of AI models in Detecting Clinical Deterioration
January 1, 2025
Clinical question: Can an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled intervention model reduce the risk of clinical deterioration and subsequent care escalation in hospitalized patients? Background:...
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Digital Tools: The New Frontline Against Sepsis
September 3, 2024
In the fast-paced world of hospital medicine, digital tools are revolutionizing the battle against sepsis. This life-threatening condition, known for its rapid onset and potentially devastating...
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Facing the Inevitable: Cyberattacks in Healthcare
June 3, 2024
Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, FAMIA, SFHM has been a hospitalist for 20 years, and a board-certified clinical informatician for the last eight years. But the cyberattack on UnitedHealthcare unit...
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Humanity at the Crossroads: Ethical Implications of AI in Medicine
May 1, 2024
With the breakthrough of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in modern life, there has been increasing pressure to incorporate this technology into medicine and healthcare.1 Fields such as...
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Is ChatGPT a Better Doctor Than You?
December 1, 2023
Dr. Chang That question may be on the minds of many physicians today. We’ve seen that ChatGPT can pass the U.S. medical licensing exams. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly improving the...
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ChatGPT and AI: How Does Health Care Handle 1.0?
December 1, 2023
Health care, including hospital medicine, isn’t exactly known as the professional land of early adopters—and for good reason. The regulations that govern the care of hospitalized patients...
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Hospitalists Explore Evolving Roles in Telemedicine
December 1, 2023
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, health care providers had to learn in a hurry how to navigate telemedicine and virtual, distant encounters with patients—using technologies that...
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Secrets of Satisfied EHR Users
November 1, 2023
A report released earlier this year by KLAS Research identified more than 3,000 “highly satisfied” users of their hospital’s electronic health record (EHR), which has also been shown to be a...