13 May The Heart of Healthcare Innovation Keeps Beating

By Fred Pelzman, Medpage Today

This past week we held our seventh annual Primary Care and Hospital Medicine Innovation symposium.

This homegrown program was designed to support everyone, including medical students, interns, residents, fellows, faculty members across multiple fields, medical researchers, and every other member of the healthcare team, to foster new projects and new ideas that folks have about how to improve the care of our patients and the lives of all of us who care for them.

Every year we offer seed grants to support budding research projects — something related to primary care or hospital medicine — helping to foster collaborations and new ways of thinking about the care we provide. We’re open to virtually anything, and I’ve always been impressed by the range of ideas people have come up with — new ways of reimagining our care processes, sometimes with the goal of helping overcome inequities, bringing in new technology to assist us, looking at something we do and saying, “We can do this better.” Read more…