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From the editors of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, a collection of peer-reviewed articles exploring transformation of the U.S. healthcare system. Included are articles on discharge readiness, reorganizing a hospital as an Accountable Care Unit, sleep rounds, smartphones for clinical communication, and implementation of a scorecard in academic hospitalist groups. This book is required reading for anyone entering the field of hospital medicine, as well as those planning to start a hospital medicine group or newly minted as an HM group leader.