Mihir Patel

Dr Mihir Patel serves as a medical director of virtual medicine and a full time hospitalist at Ballad Health. He also works part time as a tele hospitalist physician covering multiple hospitals in California and Washington state. 

Mihir’s research and clinical interests focus on integration of telemedicine, electronic medical records and principals of lean healthcare process  to reduce healthcare waste and cost of care while improving overall quality and safety.

He has served in a number of  roles including medical director of hospitalist program, chief of staff, director of medical informatics committee in addition to working as hospitalist in both rural and urban hospitals.  He is also a co founder and the president of Blue ridge Chapter of society of hospital medicine.