CINCINNATI (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If you've been hospitalized recently, you may be surprised to learn that most doctors, nurses, therapists and other health professionals rarely sit down and talk to each other about how to treat patients; but, that's beginning to change thanks to a new process.

It's doctor's rounds at a busy hospital and the first patient of the day is Brian Brumley. It's the day after he collapsed from a possible stroke. "It was probably the most amount of doctors I've seen in a 24-hour period, anytime I've ever been hospitalized," Brumley told Ivanhoe.

What he doesn't know is that doctors, nurses, therapists and others connected with his care have just met to discuss his treatment. It's part of a new program hospitals are trying called collaborative rounds. "The idea had been for years that the chart was the central document," Brett Kissela, M.D., a neurologist at University Hospital in Cincinnati, told Ivanhoe. "And the idea behind collaborative rounds is that the team all meets together, so that communications becomes interpersonal."

At the daily meetings, each patient is discussed. "And we feel that it makes for a better patient experience and definitely provides for better patient care," Dr Kissela said.