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Physician social network Doximity has entered into a partnership with the Society of Hospital Medicine to improve communications for care coordination and boost the profile of hospitalists.
Doximity, which claims more than 400,000 verified users, will serve as a secure platform for hospitalists to collaborate with primary care physicians and specialists while patients are hospitalized. Hospitalists also will be able to include SHM fellows designations in their Doximity profiles with the SHM logo, plus Doximity will integrate content from SHM publications into its news feed, the two organizations announced Thursday.
“We wanted to find ways to strengthen connections between hospitalists and all the other clinicians,” Brendon Shank, associate vice president of communications for the Philadelphia-based Society of Hospital Medicine, told MedCity News.
“Lots of patients come into the hospital and are already being cared for by another doc [outside the hospital],” Shank explained. “By the time they’re sick enough to come into the hospital, they’re working with many clinicians.”
He said that Doximity “has a lot of promise as a tool for care coordination.” Shank added, “This is about a team sport of care for patients.” He said to think of the hospitalist as the quarterback of the care team. Without communication, the quarterback might as well be playing with blinders on.
“The general synopsis is that better communication empowers better hospital care,” Shank said.
The syndicated content in Doximity’s DocNews channel will come from various SHM publications, including The Hospitalist magazine and abstracts from the peer-reviewed Journal of Hospital Medicine. “So much of that content is relevant to other specialties,” Shank said.
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