Improving Hospital Care and Collaborative Communications for the 21st Century: Key Recommendations for General Internal Medicine

Robert C Wu   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, MSc ;   Vivian Lo   ² , MASc ;   Peter Rossos   ^{2, 3, 4, 5} , MD MBA FRCPC ;   Craig Kuziemsky   ⁶ , PhD ;   Kevin J. O’Leary   ⁷ , MD ;   Joseph A Cafazzo   ^{5, 8, 9} , PhD ;   Scott Reeves   ^{10, 11, 12, 13, 14} , PhD ;   Brian M Wong   ^{3, 15, 16} , MD ;   Dante Morra   ^{1, 2, 3, 17} , MD MBA FRCPC

¹ Toronto General Hospital, Division of General Internal Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Toronto General Hospital, Centre for Innovation in Complex Care, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Shared Information Management Services, University of Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁷ Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

⁸ Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁹ Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Centre for Faculty Development, Li Ka Shing International Health Care Education Centre, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹¹ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Keenan Research Centre, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹² Wilson Centre for Research in Education, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁴ Centre of Innovation in Interprofessional Health Education, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

¹⁵ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁶ Centre for Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁷ Centre for Interprofessional Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada