Combining clinical insight and data-driven expertise: The case for morning huddles in primary care

Combining clinical insight and data-driven expertise: The case for morning huddles in primary care 
HEAL Security; by Becky Trotter and Aliya Ali; 7/1/25 
The daily huddle, also called a morning huddle, is a brief standup meeting commonly associated with inpatient and surgical care. In these settings, safety is the predominant focus of the meeting. However, the same idea can be used in primary care settings to get care teams ready for the patients scheduled for that day. Morning huddles are an opportunity to merge clinical knowledge with data and analytics to help ensure primary care teams are aligned and specific care needs are recognized before patients walk into the practice. 
Editor's Note: In hospice, various forms of morning huddles are not new. In the 1990s at Hospice & Palliative Care of Louisville, we began each day with voicemail communications among the entire team—critical for responding to overnight deaths or urgent patient needs. Today’s tech improves the process, but the goal remains: timely, coordinated care. Is your hospice keeping up?