Suzanne Bopp
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Quick Byte: ACA jump-starts 61,000 demo projects
March 28, 2017
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation lauded as proving ground for health care experimentation.
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Consider apps for better patient health
March 28, 2017
Patient-facing apps have potential to help high-need, high-cost populations, but technology also poses risks.
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Hospitalists seek tools for more efficient admissions
March 24, 2017
HM16 abstract explains how Lean/Six Sigma methods might streamline admissions.
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Enlisting social networks for better health outcomes
March 24, 2017
Commentary encourages engaging patients’ friends, family to assist in health care optimization.
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Create hospitalist-patient partnerships for safety and quality
March 22, 2017
Study reports sharing tool strengthens relationships, improve safety.
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Do 30-day readmissions mean anything?
February 1, 2017
New research shows 97% of reasons for readmission are beyond clinician control.
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Seeing the Future of Hospital Medicine
December 15, 2016
Hospitalists touch the lives of patients and shape health systems’ practices and health policy on a national and international scale according to an editorial titled “The Next 20 Years of Hospital Medicine: Continuing to Foster the Mind, Heart, and Soul of Our Field.”1 “This editorial was my refl
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Promoting the Health of Healthcare Employees
December 15, 2016
Provisions in the Affordable Care Act encourage hospitals to work with their communities to improve population health.
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Strategies for Preventing Patient Falls
December 8, 2016
Between 700,000 and 1 million people fall each year in U.S. hospitals, and about a third of those result in injuries that add an additional 6.3 days to hospital stays, according to a report from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. Some 11,000 falls are fatal.
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Helping Patients Quit Smoking
December 8, 2016
Inpatient hospitalization can be a key time for patients to quit smoking, according to an abstract called “No More Butts: An Automated System for Inpatient Smoking Cessation Team Consults.”1 “Tobacco smoking continues to be one of the most important public health threats that we face,” says lead
