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    Intermountain Risk Score Could Help Heart Failure Cases

    November 4, 2011

    A risk measurement model created by the Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, may one day be a familiar tool to HM groups. Known as the Intermountain Risk Score (http://intermountainhealthcare.org/IMRS/), the tool uses 15 parameters culled from complete blood counts (CBC)

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    By the numbers – 0.5%

    November 4, 2011

    The reduction President Obama has proposed to a formula used by the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), created last year by the Affordable Care Act to cut Medicare costs without affecting quality. The formula IPAB currently uses as a baseline for growth estimates is GDP per capita, plus 1%.

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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. “