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Private Insurers to Reap Bulk of Spending on Hospitalized Patient Care
December 29, 2015
Spending on care of hospitalized patients is expected to pass $1 trillion in 2015, a new high. Thomas Selden, PhD, of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently asked where that money is likely to go. The answer: private insurers. Dr.
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Press Ganey Executive Urges Physicians to Embrace Hospital Medicine Care Model
December 16, 2015
James Merlino, MD, president and CMO of Press Ganey's strategic consulting division, wants to convince physicians around the country that hospital medicine is good healthcare as a whole. “[Hospitalists] are the holistic scorekeepers for a variety of medical conditions that a lot of physicians don
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Hospitalist Enjoys Mentoring Residents on Patient Care Practices
December 1, 2015
[caption id="attachment_12254" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] From 2003 to 2007, Joshua LaBrin, MD, FACP, SFHM, completed his residency in the University of Pittsburgh’s internal medicine/pediatrics program.
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Nursing Care Top-Ranked Factor in Pediatric Inpatient Satisfaction Survey
November 17, 2015
A recent patient satisfaction survey that ranked nursing care as the most important factor within inpatient pediatric care settings comes as no surprise to the chair of SHM’s Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Committee. Published online last month in the American Journal of Medical Quality,
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Hospitalist David Weidig, MD, Witnessed the Field Grow During His Decades-long Career
November 4, 2015
David Weidig, MD, was there at the beginning. He was one of the first internal medicine-trained physicians to adopt hospital-based practice. He was one of the first to proudly call himself a hospitalist.
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iPad Apps Help Inpatients Bridge Information Gaps
November 3, 2015
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that giving hospitalized patients iPads with basic information about their care helped them engage more with physicians. The patient portal application helped inpatients remember their doctors’ names, the study noted, bu
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Pharmacist Intervention Can Help Reduce Readmissions
October 20, 2015
A new study has found that a pharmacist-led intervention featuring three outreach phone calls in the 30-day postdischarge period can help reduce patients' readmissions and ED visits. Recently published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the report found that 39% of patients who received only on
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Medicare Tests New Quality Measure: Readmission Rates for Heart Failure
October 6, 2015
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has wrapped up a test run of a new measure for readmission of heart failure patients as the federal agency tries to educate hospitals and hospitalists before formally including it as a quality metric in fiscal year 2018. The trial concludes O
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Hospital Medicine Administrator Amanda Trask Values Hospitalists, HM Role in Healthcare
October 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11467" align="alignright" width="250"] Image Credit: ILLUSTRATION/PAUL JUESTRICH; PHOTOs shutterstock.com[/caption] Most people think a career in hospital medicine means a medical degree that confers those two ubiquitous letters after your name. Amanda Trask blazed her
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ABIM-ACCME Collaboration Helps Hospitalists Earn Credit for Continuing Medical Education
September 22, 2015
Earning credit for continuing medical education (CME) is a little easier for hospitalists and other physicians. A collaboration between the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) will enable physicians who are engaged in l
