Marina Farah, MD, MHA, a national expert on improving clinical quality, cost, and efficiency
Dr. Marina Farah
“Delivering Population Health as a Hospitalist in a Value-Based Healthcare Era” (Monday, 3:45 – 4:25 p.m., Maryland A/1-3)
“Hospital care is responsible for a third of the U.S. health care spending,” Dr. Farah said. “Hospitalists serve 75% of total hospital patients and have a unique perspective and power to drive national health care outcomes. This session will offer guidance on what hospitalists can do to improve population health, decrease total cost of care, and succeed under value-based reimbursement models.”
“Things We Do for No Reason: The 2019 Clinical Update for Hospitalists” (Tuesday, 11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Woodrow Wilson)
“Every hospitalist needs to know clinical practices that aren’t evidence-based, costly, and do not improve patient outcomes,” she said.
Amith Skandhan, MD, SFHM, assistant professor and medical director/clinical liaison for clinical documentation improvement at Southeast Health Medical Center
Dr. Amith Skandhan
“How To Be a Great Teaching Attending” (Wednesday, 10 – 10:40 a.m., Maryland C)
“Being an academic hospitalist, I look up to great inpatient teachers,” Dr. Skandhan said. “Dr. [Jeffrey] Wiese has an amazing presence when he talks. His book on bedside teaching has been quite a guide for me as I embarked on my journey as a teacher.”
“Amplify Your Impact: Leverage Data to Accelerate Your Efforts in Quality Improvement” (Tuesday, 3:50 – 5:20 p.m., Potomac 1-3)
“Hospital medicine is a fairly new branch of medicine, and we are now the leaders of inpatient quality improvement,” he said. “To understand data and to convert it to useful information that can be utilized in quality improvement strategies would be great.”
Danielle Scheurer, MD, SFHM, physician editor of The Hospitalist and chief quality officer, Medical University of South Carolina
Dr. Danielle B. Scheurer
“Top New Guidelines Every Hospitalist Needs to Know in Clinical Practice” (Monday, 10:35 – 11:15 a.m., Woodrow Wilson)
“It’s important to remain up to date on all the new guideline releases.”“
Your Hospital, Your Group and Yourself: Opportunities for Promoting Well Being and Reducing Burnout” (Monday, 1:35 – 2:35 p.m., National Harbor 12-13)
“This session will help you and your teams to garner ideas and tactics for reducing the prevalence of burnout,” she said.
For more information on the HM19 education sessions, check the latest version of the conference schedule at https://shmannualconference.org/interactive-schedule/ .