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Health IT Chief, Hospital Medicine ‘Godfather’ Headline SHM Annual Meeting Keynotes
January 23, 2016
Health information technology (IT) will take center stage early and often at this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, acting assistant secretary for health in the U.S.
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HM16 Takes a Look at Health IT, Post-Acute Care
January 20, 2016
Take a look at the HM16 program, and you get a snapshot of the most pressing topics in hospital medicine.
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Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, Offers Inside Scoop on HM16 Educational Offerings
January 19, 2016
HM16 course director Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, took some time out of her busy schedule to chat with The Hospitalist about how the annual meeting program comes together, the continued relevance of SHM meetings, resisting the lure
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San Diego Hospitalist Weijen Chang, MD, SFHM, Offers Suggestions on Things to Do at HM16
January 16, 2016
Weijen Chang, MD, SFHM, associate clinical professor at the University of California at San Diego, has a concern: If people attending HM16 don’t get out and about, he worries, they might leave with the impression that his town is sort of, well, normal. “San Diego is a very laid-back place in gene
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Hospital Medicine 2016 Expands, Offers ‘Something for Everyone’
January 14, 2016
If you can’t find anything that interests you at HM16, check your caffeine level.
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Hospital Medicine 2016 Returns to San Diego
January 13, 2016
More than 3,000 hospitalists, nurses, administrators, medical residents, and students will ensconce themselves in Spanish Revival architecture, palm trees, fish tacos, and the latest in hospital medicine education March 6–9, converging at the San Diego Convention Center for the 2016 SHM annual meeti
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Resources Often Lacking in Hospitalists’ Routines
November 4, 2015
The best antibiotic stewardship programs weave improvements into the routines of hospitalists. But at the end of the day, developing and overseeing these important programs does require some level of time and money.
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Society of Hospital Medicine Launches Antimicrobial Stewardship Campaign
November 4, 2015
In 2006, infectious disease specialists and pharmacists at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore took a look at the pharmacy budget and were jarred by the numbers. “The proportion of the pharmacy budget that was antimicrobials was much larger than we would expect,” says Jonathan Zenil
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Listen Now: Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Hospital Medicine
November 4, 2015
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Use of Medical Scribes Spurs Debate About Costs, Difficulties of Electronic Health Records
October 6, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11554" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: ILLUSTRATION/PAUL JUESTRICH; PHOTOs shutterstock.com[/caption] The hospitalists at six Illinois hospitals, physicians who are provided by Best Practices Inpatient Care, were grappling with some issues that might sound fa
