Kai Xu, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine)
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
Attending Physician, Good Shepherd Penn Partners Specialty Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Consultant Physician, Penn Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Senior Fellow, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Inpatient Lead, Epic Physician Builder Program, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
Core Faculty, Clinical Informatics Fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania Institute of Biomedical Informatics
Department: Medicine
Contact information
3400 Spruce Street
Maloney 5019
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Maloney 5019
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-796-0689
Fax: 215-662-6250
Fax: 215-662-6250
Education:
BA (Psychology)
Swarthmore College, 2003.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2007.
Permanent linkBA (Psychology)
Swarthmore College, 2003.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2007.
Selected Publications
Xu K: A Hospitalist Led Initiative to Improve Medication Reconciliation on Admission. J Hosp Med 19(S1): 246, April 2024.Xu K, McGreevey III JD, Betesh J: Propagation of an Insidious Error through an EHR Documentation Shortcut. J Hosp Med 18(S1): 352, April 2023.
McCrea N, Xu K, McGreevey III JD: Preparing for Electronic Provider Documentation: A Survey of Physician Preferences about Dictation and Speech Recognition Capabilities at an Academic Medical Center. Poster Presentation at Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting March 2014.
Baillie CA, Goren EN, Jacob J, Patel N, Umscheid CA, Xu KT: ITL: Physician Reviews of HM-Relevant Research. The Hospitalist March 2013.
Taylor NK, Xu K: A Rare Case of Primary HSV Meningitis in the Absence of Genital Herpes. Oral Presentation at Mid-Atlantic SGIM Regional Meeting 2013.
Xu K, Bankova L: A Rare Case of Persistent Otitis Media and Epiglottitis. J Gen Intern Med 25(S3): 484, April 2010.
Xu K: Rapid and Massive Thrombosis following Initiation of Warfarin in a Hypercoagulable Patient. J Hosp Med 5(S1): 196, March 2010.
Xu K: Uncontrolled Diabetes after Discontinuation of Methotrexate. J Hosp Med 5(S1): 196, March 2010.