Experience gave him a new appreciation for interprofessional patient care

Physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, spiritual care professionals, clinical pharmacists and other specialized providers all work together to create a unified palliative care team at Michigan Medicine.

The Mobile Monitoring Transformation Project, supported by the Sickbay Clinical Platform will allow care team members to access data from cardiac monitors and all connected bedside devices on workstations, PCs, phones and tablets. The new web-based technology will transform bedside care and greatly enhance collaboration among care team members. A pilot was run last year, and units in different buildings will begin using the new technology this week, with a larger rollout planned.

The new program’s first direct enrollment patient shares his experience.

Despite equal access to pain management care, Black patients were 40% more likely than white patients to report uncontrolled pain scores. New pilot programs aim to change that.

Getting to know a pain management clinical pharmacist-specialist.

How instructional videos for staff are helping transgender patients feel ‘safe, accepted and welcomed.’

A doctor develops a new training program to help improve testing and care available for those with the genetic disease, starting in the Middle East.