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Hospital at Home: Delivering hospital-level care without the hospital
May 25, 2021
The future of HaH depends on development of a common payment model that will be adopted beyond the pandemic.
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Clinician well-being a top priority, Surgeon General says
May 7, 2021
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said he’ll push for scientists to be heard in an unpoliticized way.
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COVID experience underscores ‘vital’ role of hospital medicine
May 6, 2021
“The response to the acute care needs in this pandemic would have been impossible in the health care system that existed before hospitalists,” said Dr. Larry Wellikson.
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Hospital medicine around the world
April 5, 2021
Adaptations of the hospitalist model vary across countries, reflecting local culture, payment models, and medical education.
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Virtual is the new real
- Chandra S. Lingisetty Md, MBA, MHCM;
- Rupesh Prasad Md, MPH, CPE, SFHM;
- Venkataraman Palabindala Md, MBA, FACP, SFHM
March 16, 2021
The need for a systematic telehealth deployment is far from being adequately fulfilled.
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Key trends in hospitalist compensation from the 2020 SoHM Report
- Linda M. Kurian, MD, SFHM, FACP
February 12, 2021
Hospitalist compensation continues to rise compared to previous years, despite relatively flat trends in total patient encounters.
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Rollout of COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies lacked unified plan: expert panel
February 8, 2021
Monoclonal antibodies are in ample supply, but a lack of a plan to administer them has led to major underutilization of these therapies.
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Seven ways President Biden could now change health care
January 21, 2021
Democrats’ small majorities in both houses of Congress suggest that moderation and bipartisanship will be necessary to get things done.
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Biden’s COVID-19 challenge: 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days. It won’t be easy.
- Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News
January 20, 2021
“I think it’s an attainable goal. I think it’s going to be extremely challenging,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers.
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Medicare finalizes 2021 physician pay rule with E/M changes
December 3, 2020
“This finalized policy marks the most significant updates to E/M codes in 30 years, reducing burden on doctors imposed by the coding system and rewarding time spent evaluating and managing their patients’ care.”