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Society of Hospital Medicine’s Award of Excellence Winners Lead the Way
March 31, 2012
With this year’s annual SHM Awards of Excellence, thousands of hospitalists at HM12 saluted the leaders in the specialty.
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Complex Medically Ill Patients: A Challenge for PCPs and Hospitalists
March 31, 2012
Every year, primary-care physicians (PCPs) and hospitalists struggle to manage care for complex medically ill patients, according to a new survey conducted by SHM and QuantiaMD. Complex medically ill patients have two or more concurrent chronic conditions that require ongoing medical attention or li
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Ethics, Advocacy, and Disclosure: The Sunshine Rule
March 31, 2012
Letter highlights critical distinctions in compensation for teaching Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses
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Partnership for Patients: CMS’ Ambitious Program for Patient Safety Improvement
March 31, 2012
The goal is to reduce preventable hospital-acquired conditions by 40% and decrease preventable complications during transitions of care to reduce hospital readmissions by 20%
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Verify Your Liability Coverage before Taking that New Job
March 31, 2012
Now is the time to dust off your employment agreement and professional liability insurance policy and review what happen in the event a lawsuit is filed against you after you leave your current employer.
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Nigerian-Born Hospitalist Steers Career Down Path of Administrative Challenges
March 31, 2012
In some ways, Femi Adewunmi, MD, MBA, CPE, SFHM, seemed destined to become a physician.
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Time-based billing allows hospitalists to avoid
March 31, 2012
Utilizing time-based billing principles allows a physician to disregard the “key component” requirements and select a visit level reflective of this effort.
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First Set of CMS Advisors Includes Hospitalists
March 31, 2012
In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected 73 professionals as the initial set of advisors for its Innovation Center (http://innovations.cms.gov/). The advisors include 37 physicians, as well as some nurses and health administrators.
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Hospitalists Provide Leadership as Unit Medical Directors
March 31, 2012
A project to formalize “local leadership models”—partnering leadership teams comprising a hospitalist and a nurse manager on each participating unit—at the University of Michigan Health System helped to redefine the role of unit medical director and led to allocating sufficie
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Understanding Physicians’ Attitudes toward Safety Culture
March 31, 2012
Results from a survey to assess physicians’ and medical trainees’ perceptions and attitudes about the culture of patient safety at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center were reported at HM11 in Dallas by Patrick Kneeland, MD, who has since moved to Providenc
