News
We Welcome the Newest SHM Members
March 2, 2013
A listing of new Society of Hospital Medicine members
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HMX Term of the Month: Achievement Points
March 2, 2013
Achievement points are awarded to a hospital by comparing an individual hospital’s performance measure rates during a certain period with all hospitals’ rates during the baseline period
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Fellow in Hospital Medicine Spotlight: Katherine Hochman, MD, MBA, FHM
March 2, 2013
Dr. Hochman is assistant chief of medicine and director of the hospitalist program at New York University Medical Center (NYUMC) in New York City
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Is Your Hospital Medicine Group a Good Candidate for Project BOOST?
March 2, 2013
An eagerness to improve the hospital discharge process is a key quality for Project BOOST candidates
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Soaring Medicare Costs for Unplanned Hospitalizations Underscore Need to Reduce Readmissions
March 2, 2013
Methods endorsed by Project BOOST program credited with double-digit reductions in hospitals’ 30-day readmission rates
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Hospitalists Urged to Help Reduce 30-Day Readmission Rate
March 2, 2013
Healthcare expert encourages hospitalists to use methods and assessment tools of the Project BOOST program to avoid unnecessary patient readmissions
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Shaun Frost: Why Hospital Patients’ Expectations Should Dictate Their Care
March 2, 2013
Instead of trying to quantify patient satisfaction, hospitalists should focus on addressing patients’ individual needs and ways to optimize healing
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Adds Measure in Efficiency Domain
March 2, 2013
Medicare spending per beneficiary (MSPB), not healthcare cost or length of stay, will be the first measure used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to measure hospital efficiency
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Physicians Exercise Their Entrepreneurial Skills, Creativity to Pursue Passions Beyond Clinical Medicine
March 2, 2013
Career shifts can help hospitalists broaden horizons, strike better work-life balance
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John Nelson: Fixing Complaints Between Primary-Care Physicians, Hospitalists Not Always Easy
March 2, 2013
Hospitalists are encouraged to work with PCPs to solve sticking points over such issues as restrictive hospital admission policies
