News
Drive Change in an ACO
April 30, 2013
Change your mindset and consider four key strategies
News
SHM Tallies Ratio of Hospital Respondents’ Observation Admissions to Inpatient Admission Encounters
April 2, 2013
Included in the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2012 State of Hospital Medicine Report, the new metric was added due to increased hospital observation encounters
News
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Provision Carries Pay Raise for Some Hospitalists
April 2, 2013
Hospitalists who care for Medicaid patients will see a pay increase in 2013 and 2014 under ACA payment parity rules
Opinion
John Nelson: Excessive Workload a Concern for Many Hospitalists
April 2, 2013
Multiple factors contribute to workload concerns expressed by hospitalists
News
Bob Wachter Puts Forward Spin on Patient Safety, Quality of Care at HM13
April 1, 2013
The eponymous hospital medicine convention speaker plans to reaffirm hospitalists’ commitment to deliver safe, high-quality patient care in his address at SHM’s annual meeting in May
News
UCLA Exec: Patient-Centered Approach Essential to Quality of Hospital Care
April 1, 2013
A national healthcare expert will implore hospitalists to focus first on healing patients in his keynote address at SHM’s annual meeting, HM13
News
Team Hospitalist Recommends Nine Don’t-Miss Sessions at HM13
April 1, 2013
Presentations about anticoagulants, physician value-based purchasing (VBP), and patient communications among hospitalists' top picks at SHM annual meeting
Audio
Two Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Share Their Strategies for Success
April 1, 2013
Pairing with a multispecialty private-practice group and using nurse practitioners for at-home patient visits are tactics used by successful ACOs
News
Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Gain Popularity with Physicians in Wake of Added Incentives, Revised Federal Rules
April 1, 2013
Health care providers cautiously optimistic that ACO’s shared responsibility model can cure some industry ills
News
The Future of ACOs Remains Cloudy
April 1, 2013
Lack of incentives, flexibility could limit ACO success, widespread implementation