Thomas R. Collins
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HM16 AUDIO: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, Discusses Hospital Medicine’s Role in Public Health
April 11, 2016
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, talks about the role hospitalists can play in public health. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HM16-Murthy-edit.mp3"][/audio]
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HM16 AUDIO: Alyssa Stephany, MD, Talks about the HM16 RIV Scientific Abstract Competition
April 11, 2016
Alyssa Stephany, MD, then assistant professor at Duke and now section chief of pediatric hospital medicine at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, talks about the evolution in training stemming from her experience in the HM16 RIV competition.
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HM16 AUDIO: Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, Chats up His Research on Costs and Complications with PICC Line Usage
April 11, 2016
RIV winner Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, assistant professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, talks about his research on the costs and complications associated with PICC line use. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HM16-chopra-edit.mp3"][/audio]
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HM16 AUDIO: Jordan Romano Discusses Getting Published, Hospitalist Burnout
April 11, 2016
Jordan Romano, DO, a hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital, talks about lessons gleaned at HM16 on the importance of taking small steps toward your goals of getting published and how burnout can be relative. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HM16-romano
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Annual Meeting Highlights Latest Research, Project Completion
April 11, 2016
One of the things that Jennifer Feighner, MD, cheerfully came away with at HM16 was how to better complete a task that is distinctly uncheerful but also important to any high-performing hospital: how to collect the data of the dead. The quality improvement session “Reducing Inpatient Mortality: A
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Policy Experts Urge Hospitalists to Get Involved, Share Knowledge
April 10, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Think beyond your four walls, speakers told hospitalists at HM16.
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Health Information Technology Ramps Up Its Presence
April 9, 2016
SAN DIEGO — To talk to Nancy Allen, MD, a locum tenens physician who works in Portland, Me., is to get a sense of that head-spinning sensation you can have in the digital age. For hospitalists, it’s an endless stream of patients, diagnoses, documentation, and performance metrics.
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Administrators Share Strategies for High-Performing Hospitalist Groups at HM16
April 7, 2016
In November, Barbara Weisenbach took a new job as practice manager for the hospitalist group at Northwest Hospital in Seattle. She’s an experienced administrator but as for hospital medicine, not so much.
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HM16 Speakers Focus on Public Health, Leadership, Future of Hospital Medicine
April 2, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Hospital medicine’s annual extravaganza nestled into the southwestern corner of the country in March, with a record 4,000 hospitalists and others expanding their knowledge of clinical care, management, leadership, technology, and quality improvement. They listened, they laughed, they
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HM16 Speakers, Attendees Focus on Training, Advancement, Work-Life Balance
March 26, 2016
SAN DIEGO — If you arrived late, or even right on time, to the session on becoming a better attending, you’d better have been ready to find a clear spot on the floor or have had the energy to stand for an hour. Read more about the speakers at HM16. But the dynamic talk, you could even say perf