Health professionals are faced with a responsibility to help deflate medical bills. To achieve this goal, clinicians can advocate for appropriate care, consider patient affordability, and lead local value improvement initiatives. For those ready to tackle this challenge, we elaborate on and explain some of these necessary tools in our book, Understanding Value-Based Healthcare.
The Hospital Leader
Hospitalists of all kinds are sharing their perspective and experience at SHM’s official blog, “The Hospital Leader,” including their reflections on how hospitalists can tackle healthcare costs. For more posts, visit www.shmblog.org.
Hot on HMX
Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) empowers SHM members to share and collaborate on some of the most important topics in healthcare today. Recently, hospitalists have been discussing issues like:
• Patient satisfaction • Geographic rounding • LACE Score
To share your own perspective on these topics—or start a new conversation.