December 2008

The EMR has long promised a brave new world in which clinical information is synthesized, individualized, and seamlessly delivered to the frontline clinician.

Hospitals are increasingly using patient safety screening technology in the fight against hospital-acquired infections that kill thousands of patients and drive up the cost of care.

Alan L. Wang, MD, and Daniel Owens, MBA, discuss the unique characteristics of academic hospital medicine, the importance of healthcare information technology in providing quality care, and the promising future of Emory Hospital Medicine and the field of hospital medicine.

Remember in the 1960s Star Trek series when Dr. McCoy would pass his medical tricorder over a prostrate body to discover not only which species of alien had invaded the young ensign, but also how to expel the creature with a dose of medicine?