• News

    Congrats to the Class of 2013

    November 30, 2011

    Clinical informatics is scheduled to offer board certification following its recent approval by the American Board of Medical Specialties.

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    VTE Prophylaxis in Focus

    November 22, 2011

    Study author urges hospitalists to be more selective in usage

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    MGMA, ACMPE Name Hospitalist “Physician Executive of the Year”

    November 17, 2011

    Dave Bowman, MD, also praised for quick response to shooting rampage

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    Report Finds U.S. Health Quality Stagnant

    November 10, 2011

    Analysis highlights areas for opportunity, one hospitalist says

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    Intermountain Risk Score Could Help Heart Failure Cases

    November 4, 2011

    A risk measurement model created by the Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, may one day be a familiar tool to HM groups. Known as the Intermountain Risk Score (http://intermountainhealthcare.org/IMRS/), the tool uses 15 parameters culled from complete blood counts (CBC)

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    By the numbers – 0.5%

    November 4, 2011

    The reduction President Obama has proposed to a formula used by the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), created last year by the Affordable Care Act to cut Medicare costs without affecting quality. The formula IPAB currently uses as a baseline for growth estimates is GDP per capita, plus 1%.

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    Bayes Theorem? There’s an App for That

    November 2, 2011

    A hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has created an iPhone application to help give academic HM groups fingertip access to Bayesian nomograms and real-time research. Hospitalist Elizabeth Farrell, MD, says an app dubbed Medicine Toolkit (www.medicinetoolkit.com) should be

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    Teachable Moments

    October 27, 2011

    Stroke-awareness advocate encourages hospitalists to formalize education on risk factors

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    Seal of Approval

    October 19, 2011

    Joint Commission hospitals outperform non-accredited institutions

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    NQF Launches Interactive Quality-Measurement Tool

    October 12, 2011

    HM groups can learn about—or share their own—quality measures information