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    Bayes Theorem? There’s an App for That

    November 2, 2011

    A hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has created an iPhone application to help give academic HM groups fingertip access to Bayesian nomograms and real-time research. Hospitalist Elizabeth Farrell, MD, says an app dubbed Medicine Toolkit (www.medicinetoolkit.com) should be

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    Teachable Moments

    October 27, 2011

    Stroke-awareness advocate encourages hospitalists to formalize education on risk factors

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    Seal of Approval

    October 19, 2011

    Joint Commission hospitals outperform non-accredited institutions

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    NQF Launches Interactive Quality-Measurement Tool

    October 12, 2011

    HM groups can learn about—or share their own—quality measures information

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    Temporary Staffing Common in HM, Study Reports

    October 5, 2011

    Locum tenens positions offer flexibility and higher compensation, recruiter says

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    Transferring “Boarders” Could Save Millions

    October 4, 2011

    A pilot project that transferred “boarded” patients from one hospital’s ED to an inpatient bed at another nearby hospital in the same health system suggests that the concept could save hospitals millions. “Improvement in Emergency Department Treatment Capacity: A Health System Integration Approac

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    The Earlier, the Better

    October 1, 2011

    Aggressive bed management increases capacity and revenue-generating opportunities without added costs

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    Study: Rural Hospitals Behind IT Curve

    October 1, 2011

    Only a sliver of rural hospitals would meet the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) criteria to qualify for “meaningful use” of health information technology (HIT), according to a new study, but that could be a window for HM group leaders to take the reins of technology projects. “

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    ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A Discharge Solution—or Problem?

    October 1, 2011

    Although helpful for some, discharge lounges won’t solve systemic bed-management issues

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    ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Experts discuss strategies to improve early discharges

    October 1, 2011

    Emergency Nurses Association President AnnMarie Papa discusses patient partnerships; Ken Simone explains the pressures hospitals face in moving patients and potential incentives to get nurses on board the early-discharge train