Health Affairs December 5, 2023
Primary care providers who continue to care for their patients both in the clinic and in the hospital used to be the norm but are unusual today. Over the past 30 years, hospital inpatient care has largely shifted away from being led by patients’ primary care providers. Instead, a relatively new kind of specialist—the hospitalist—now manages patients’ care during their time in the hospital.
There have been many good reasons for this transformation, but it has also led to a sharper, and sometimes problematic, divide between inpatient and outpatient care.
We believe that the rise of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic creates an opportunity to partially bridge that divide and improve collaboration between primary care providers and hospitalists. Below, we...
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