2025 has been an incredible year for HOMERuN. With groundbreaking studies, new initiatives, impactful publications, and thriving work groups, we are thrilled to share the highlights of our collective efforts.

🏆 Research Highlights: Major Grants & Studies

HOMERuN currently supports three active grants and has submitted several large planning grants.

Achieving Diagnostic Excellence through Prevention and Teamwork (ADEPT) Study (AHRQ R18 Grant)

• Piloted and launched Diagnostic Cross-check Intervention across 13 sites. Completed 3148 adjudications completed across 14 sites.
• 9 Posters at SHM Converge 2025; 3 Posters/presentations at DEX 2025; 4 abstracts submitted to SHM Converge 2026.
• 1 manuscript published in Diagnosis (Berl).

Identification and Prevention of Potentially Inappropriate Inter-Hospital Transfers (POINT) Study (AHRQ R01 Grant)

• Completed adjudications across 16 sites, totaling 1560 patient transfers.
• 1 Poster at SHM Converge 2025; 2 abstracts submitted for 2026 SHM and SGIM national conferences.
• 4 manuscripts published/under review from Aim 1.

Missed Home Health Visits Study (NIA R01 Grant) now getting underway.

Planning at least 5 grant submissions to NHLBI, PCORI, and NCICD.

✨ Advancing Patient-Centered Care: The HOMERuN PFAC

The HOMERuN Patient & Family Advisory Council, which includes patients, family members, and caregivers, is an essential part of HOMERuN.

• Grant Partnerships: Named research partners on three PCORI grant submissions (I-SLEEP Study, COMFORT Study, and SMART vCAP Trial).
• Active Involvement: Provided study design advice for four projects.
• Leadership: Two PFAC members joined the Executive Committee to centralize patient voices in decision-making.
• Publication: Co-authored a publication on outcome ranking for non-severe Community-acquired Pneumonia.

🌐 HOMERUN Work Group Achievements & Updates

Workforce team at SHM Converge 2025.

Med Ed team during one of their monthly meetings.

Learn more about our Work Groups.

🗓️ Connections and Collaboration — Collaborative Sessions & Newsletters

Popular Collaborative Sessions: HOMERuN hosted 13 engaging sessions this year.

The most highly-attended included:

• Current Practices for Patient Transfers from Academic Medical Centers to Regional Affiliates: A Qualitative Study (52 Participants)
• Steering Committee: HOMERuN Membership and Election Focus Groups (50 Participants)
• Clinical Operations Work Group Proposal (47 Participants)

Most viewed newsletters (greater than 47% open rate):

• 1-27-2025 Health Equity, Antiracism, and Social Justice Group Updates
• 5-27-2025 HOMERuN at SHM Converge 2025 and Celebrations
• 7-21-2025 HOMERuN Educator's Corner: Direct Observation and Feedback

View list of HOMERuN newsletters.

📚 HOMERuN Teams Published (at least) 8 Manuscripts:

• Academic hospitalist perspectives on the benefits and challenges of secure messaging: A mixed methods analysis
• Measuring the association between diagnostic errors and neighborhood disadvantage
• Optimizing learners on direct care teaching services: A qualitative study of hospitalist clinicians at 26 sites
• Clinician perspectives on electronic health record behavioral alerts and hospital workplace violence prevention: A mixed methods study at 20 organizations
• A multi‐institutional multi‐methods analysis of jeopardy systems in academic hospital medicine
• Re-envisioning interhospital transfer: A qualitative study exploring alternatives to transfer
• Development of a tool to measure potentially inappropriate inter-hospital transfer (IHT): The POINT Study
• Diagnostic excellence: turning to diagnostic performance improvement
• Navigating uncertainty: Sustaining health equity in a shifting landscape

View list of HOMERuN publications.

📢 Hospital Medicine Opportunities

The Vanderbilt Interdisciplinary Hospital-based Systems of Care T32 Research Training progrAm (VISTA): The NIH/NHLBI-supported program is recruiting for the Academic Year 2027 cohort (starting July 2026). It trains 2-3 new postdoctoral investigators annually in health systems research for acute heart, lung, blood, or sleep disorders in the hospital setting.

To learn more about the VISTA T32 postdoctoral training program, visit https://emergencymedicine.vumc.org/research/vista-t32.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Please direct any questions to the VISTA T32 Co-Directors or Program Manager at VISTAT32@vumc.org

Faculty Position at Massachusetts General Brigham: Seeking primary care and hospital medicine physicians with expertise in health services research, epidemiology, or related fields.

To learn more and apply, visit: https://www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/940246/faculty-position-at-massachusetts-general-brigham/#application-form

Our next meeting will be on December 19, 2025.

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