b'During and post the pandemic, with the telemedicine5. Vision for the Futurecart stationed in the emergency room, patients were afforded immediate access to the admitting hospitalist.During the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressures on The other on-site hospitalist partners are affordedhospitalists created new demands and challenges. uninterrupted attention to patient rounding, throughputThe one constant over the past 25 years has been the management, and family and staff conferences. Thisagility of hospitalists amidst the changing health care backdrop of on-demand coverage can then be turned onlandscape. or off as patient volume requires. Hospitalists of the future will continue to be leaders In lieu of scrambling for an additional four to six hours ofwithin hospital environments. By evolving the quality-onsite physician surge coverage during high admittingand-cost value equation, hospital medicine programs times and the need to decongest the emergencywill provide strategic solutions to address hospitals department, the hospitalist team would just divertbiggest challenges. new admissions to the teleadmissionist. In its most refined form, the 24/7 backdrop of teleadmissionistThe newly evolved equation for hospital medicine may can eliminate the need for on-site swing shifts, as wellbe adopted by hospitals today for immediate impact.as enhance productivity of the on-site nocturnist byWith a renewed focus on clinical metrics and supporting providing cross coverage call support. the full patient journey, we can advance the quality side of the equation.By expanding physician-led teams, Post-pandemic, the teleadmissionist replaces theensuring throughput optimization, and incorporating requirement for hospitalists to be on call in case oftelemedicine, we can address the cost side of the higher volumes, and thus will increase the satisfactionequation. of the existing hospital medicine staff. Optimizing these on-call responsibilities will have a meaningful impact onHospital medicine programs will drive ongoing reducing burnout and increasing clinical retention. throughput, with higher quality care, at a lower cost, in an agile manner, for hospitals to stay Deploying Telehospitalists efficient no matter what crisis next arises. Telemedicine technology has advanced to allow a No one can say for sure what the next quarter century of telehospitalist to be a successful substitute for on-sitehospital medicine will hold, but there is confidence that physician presence, from remote daytime rounding tohospitalists and hospital medicine can evolve and rise topost-discharge televisits for readmission avoidance.the occasion.Not only was telemedicine quickly adopted, but in many cases, it became the platform of choice for patients looking to receive care without the threat of COVID exposure in a physicians office. The sophistication of plug-in diagnostics, advances in hardware and software, and enhanced video capabilities all support the extension of the physician behind the screen to the bedside.1 -Wachter, R. M., & Goldman, L. (1996). The Emerging Role of Hospitalists in the American Health Care System.Together, we healNew England Journal of Medicine, 335(7), 514517. Together, we heal 6Together, we heal SCP HEALTHIA NEW HOSPITAL MEDICINE EQUATION FOR A POST-COVID FUTURE'