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News
JOHN NELSON: Morning Discharges and Length of Stay
March 31, 2012
This month I will focus on what can be thought of as the two components of “back end” throughput: effective management of length of stay (LOS) and patient discharge in the morning rather than late in the day
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John Nelson: ED Patient Throughput Is New Core Measure
February 29, 2012
Hospitals are likely to increase their customers’ satisfaction by improving “frontend” throughput from the ED to the inpatient unit. In fact, CMS added two new core measures (known as inpatient quality reporting, or IQR) that hospitals began reporting on Jan. 1.
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News
Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
January 27, 2012
The measures matter to patients, info is publicly reported, and money is at risk.
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Opinion
Reimbursement Readiness
December 21, 2011
Documentation improvement, regulatory acumen key maximization of Medicare dollars
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Opinion
Holdout Hospitals
November 30, 2011
Few U.S. hospitals operate without an HM service, but they do exist—for now.
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Opinion
Good Citizenship
November 2, 2011
Can a performance bonus help?
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Opinion
Laborists, Defined
October 1, 2011
Certain traits, practices make the OBGYN hospitalist model a breed apart
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Opinion
Hospital-Focused Practice
September 1, 2011
As specialists adopt HM model, need for new terminology, cooperation grows
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Opinion
Power Struggles
August 3, 2011
Whose practice is it, anyway?
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Opinion
New Developments
July 1, 2011
Financial support grows, while hospitalist recruiting shows signs of slowing.
