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HM12’s Professional Development Offerings Have Singular Focus
April 26, 2012
This year’s pre-course lineup included the MOC test preparation, hands-on classes in medical procedures and ultrasound usage, and a debut class on “How to Improve Performance in CMS’s Value-Based Purchasing Program.”
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HM Leaders Call for Thoughtful, Budget-Minded Advancement of Patient-Safety Reforms
April 26, 2012
The crossroads of patient safety, QI, and the use of technology from medical devices to iPhones was a major theme at SHM’s annual meeting, April 1-4 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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D.C. Insiders, HM Leaders Urge Hospitalists to Stay in Fight to Achieve Quality in Era of Reform
April 26, 2012
SHM Public Policy Committee Chair Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, outlined how accountable care organizations are designed to change the healthcare payment paradigm.
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Study: Medicare Pay for Performance Might Not Work as Currently Designed
April 24, 2012
Hospitals should focus more on outcomes, incentives to make the model work, researcher says
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HM Tool Designed to Pinpoint Program Strengths, Weaknesses
April 18, 2012
Performance measurement survey will be available free online
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: SHM President, NQF CEO Discuss SHM’s Earning National Quality Award
April 11, 2012
SHM President Joe Li explains HM's role in QI and how he expects the model will grow; NQF CEO Janet Corrigan discusses SHM's mentored implementation
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Geriatric Patients Show Greater Cognitive Decline after Hospitalization
April 11, 2012
Hospitalists can assist in prevention, therapeutic strategies
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Wachter Highlights New Era for Hospitalists
April 5, 2012
Increasingly complex healthcare system calls for hospitalists to “champion reform,” Wachter tells HM12 attendees
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Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) President Stresses Accountability, Genuine Results in Inaugural Address
April 4, 2012
Without evidence-based improvements, consequences for hospitals, patients could be “disastrous”
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Speakers Address Healthcare Reform, Political Climate at Society of Hospital Medicine’s Annual Meeting
April 3, 2012
Conway, Ornstein tell HM12 attendees to expect major change in coming years
