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How are AI’s Seismic Transformations Impacting Front-line Hospitalists?
February 2, 2026
Dr. Skandhan Amith Skandhan, MD, FACP, SFHM, a hospitalist and associate professor at UT Health in San Antonio, is so fascinated by the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform...
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Hospitalist-Led AI Research
February 2, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering hospital medicine at a moment when the field needs it most and when the risks of getting it wrong are high. For many hospitalists, interest in AI has grown...
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AI and the Hospitalist: Between Promise and Prudence
February 2, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly moved from novelty to near inevitability in hospital medicine. While tools like ChatGPT captured public attention in 2022, AI had already been shaping...
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Digital Health Technologies in Perioperative Medicine
July 2, 2025
Digital health technologies, particularly with the advancement of artificial intelligence systems, are a growing area of interest in modern medicine. While research remains in relatively early...
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Peering Into a Crystal Ball: Leveraging EMR Tools to Predict Clinical Deterioration and How to Intervene
July 2, 2025
As hospitalists at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas, we may have wished for a crystal ball to win big at the tables. However, our professional aspirations focus on predicting which patients may...
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Toward a Medical Superintelligence: Reasoning Models and the Race Towards a Strange New World in Clinician-Computer Collaboration
July 1, 2025
The original title of this talk was “A Turing Test for Clinical Reasoning: Large Language Models and the Future of Diagnosis.” A lot can happen in a year, so now we find ourselves “Turing” in...
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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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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...