Urgent Matters

Millions of patients every year are released from the emergency department with instructions to get follow-up care with their primary care physician or a specialist. Studies repeatedly show however, that many patients never comply. With so much pressure to keep patients healthy and out of the ED, hospitals need a better solution. Dr Benji Jack of BoardRounds, is here this week to talk to Dr Jesse Pines of Urgent Matters about how his company is helping hospitals get their patients connected to the care and services they need.      Urgent Matters is a dissemination vehicle for strategies on emergency department patient flow and quality. For more information and resources such as newsletters, webinars, conferences, and issue briefs, visit www.urgentmatters.org  Dr Jesse Pines is the director of The George Washington University Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, a professor of medicine and health policy, and a practicing emergency physician.  For more information about BoardRounds or to contact this week's