COVID-19 Has Shown the Power of HM

Amid the unspeakable tragedies and hardships that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the medical community are examples of stunning acts of innovation, compassion, and old-fashioned effort. Dr. Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, MHM Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, MHM—who has served on SHM’s board of directors and is now chief health officer at electronic health record company Cerner—doesn’t want people to forget those stories. Hospitalists should look to these bright spots for inspiration and motivation to continue improving health care, she said in a keynote speech at SHM Converge in Nashville, Tenn. in April. “Never again do we have the right to say, ‘It can’t be done,’” she said. “Because you know what? We did it.”  She issued a challenge to the audience gathered for the plenary session. “We’ve got one goal, and that’s to create the ‘Converge Effect,’” she said. “What’s the Converge Effect? It’s all of us, all nearly 3,000 of us, coming here together in one place, in Nashville, and looking at how we’re going to think differently, how we are going to do things differently, on behalf of our patients and communities back home, to change health care for the better.” She asked the audience members to write down a new idea, connect with someone at the conference or back home, and commit to doing something differently to improve care. The achievements she pushed the crowd to build from were, of course, possible only because of desperate challenges posed by ...
Source: The Hospitalist - Category: Hospital Management Authors: Tags: COVID-19 Hospital Medicine Leadership SHM Converge Source Type: research