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Pediatric hospitalist and researcher: Dr. Samir Shah
January 29, 2019
Dr. Shah is the first pediatric hospitalist to serve as editor in chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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The state of hospital medicine in 2018
January 8, 2019
Slow growth in compensation, more funds for hospital support, but productivity remains flat.
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Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program may be doing more harm than good
January 4, 2019
Thirty-day postdischarge mortality went up after the program for some, down for others.
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Ingredients for effective team-based care
- Christopher Frost, MD, SFHM
December 19, 2018
In health care, we are undergoing a period of “punctuation.”
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ONC releases draft strategy on reducing EHR burden
December 5, 2018
Comments are sought to help drive direction of reforms.
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Opinion
CMS modifies the inpatient admission order requirement, or did it?
- Charles Locke, MD;
- Edward Hu, MD
November 15, 2018
Medicare auditors have been given discretion to overlook an inpatient order flaw, but providers have not.
News
Guideline authors inconsistently disclose conflicts
November 5, 2018
Review of payment records shows some undisclosed payments of $10,000 or more.
News
Study: Problems persist with APMs
October 24, 2018
Concerns reported in 2014 persisted into 2018 and were joined by new concerns over the pace of change and complexity as well as issues with two-sided risk models.
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Readmission to non-index hospital following acute stroke linked to worse outcomes
October 22, 2018
ATLANTA – Study adds to the stroke literature on nationwide estimates of 30-day readmissions.
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“You have a pending query”
- And Maria Reyna, MD;
- Geetanjali Rajda, MD;
- Lida Fatemi, MD
October 18, 2018
Physicians do not need to become coders, but it is helpful to have some understanding of what happens behind the scenes.