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    Facing the Inevitable: Cyberattacks in Healthcare

    June 3, 2024

    Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, FAMIA, SFHM has been a hospitalist for 20 years, and a board-certified clinical informatician for the last eight years. But the cyberattack on UnitedHealthcare unit...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pee Dee

    June 3, 2024

    COVID-19 was brutal on SHM chapters nationwide, immediately forcing events to teleconference technology and eliminating the in-person networking and education that has become a staple of the...

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    SIG Spotlight: Patient Experience

    June 3, 2024

    Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Kansas

    May 1, 2024

    All SHM chapters talk about getting early-career hospitalists more involved. The Kansas chapter puts its money where its mouth is. Dr. Rafiq Its president, Ali Rafiq, MD, FACP, first got...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Fellowships

    May 1, 2024

    Being a new kid on the block can be daunting, even in the world of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Longer-standing SIGs have board protocols, event schedules, and a history to rely on when...

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    SIG Spotlight: Interhospital Transfers

    March 1, 2024

    SHM prides itself on connecting teams of like-minded physicians who don’t otherwise have folks they can connect with on their chosen niche within hospital medicine. But what happens when that...

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    Chapter Spotlight: San Diego

    March 1, 2024

    Ali Farkhondehpour, MD, FACP, FHM, was a third-year medical student who got involved in SHM early in his career, so it likely wouldn’t surprise anyone he’s risen to president of its San Diego...

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    SIG Spotlight: Physician Advisors

    February 1, 2024

    Physician advisors are responsible for a lot. Their work exists at the intersection of clinical matters and revenue. Think clinical documentation, hospital quality measures, length-of-stay...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Maryland

    February 1, 2024

    If there’s one struggle that all SHM chapters know well, it’s engagement. Evelyn Gathecha, MD, FACP, FHM, tackles the issue head-on as president of the Maryland outpost. Dr....

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    SIG Spotlight: Health IT

    January 2, 2024

    The world of 2024 isn’t your grandfather’s health information technology (IT). Heck, it’s not even the world that existed when the first iPhone debuted in 2007. The breakneck pace of health IT...