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Opinion
Hospitalist Medicare payments are at risk for large cuts in 2021
November 11, 2020
Medicare has proposed changes that would create unprecedented financial hardship for hospital medicine groups.
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News
FBI warns of ‘imminent’ cyberattacks on U.S. hospitals
November 6, 2020
All health care systems should be prepared to deal with these problems, said Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum.
News
Primary care journals address systemic racism in medicine
November 4, 2020
Each family medicine publication plans to implement different changes.
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News
Burnout risk may be exacerbated by COVID crisis
November 4, 2020
“The biggest source of support for many hospitalists, beyond their family, is the group,” said Dr. Clarissa Barnes.
News
Medicare fines half of hospitals for readmitting too many patients
November 4, 2020
A hospital will be penalized if its readmission rate is higher than expected given national trends in select categories.
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News
Health sector has spent $464 million on lobbying in 2020
November 2, 2020
PhRMA leads sector through the third quarter, with the American Hospital Association just behind.
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News
Physician burnout costly to organizations and U.S. health system
November 2, 2020
What is the attributable cost of physician burnout at both the U.S. health care system level and individual organization level?
News
Health care workers implore OSHA for more oversight on COVID-19 safety
October 26, 2020
“OSHA is doing a lamentably poor job protecting workers during the pandemic,” said James Brudney, JD, a professor at Fordham Law School, in New York City.
News
COVID spikes exacerbate health worker shortages in Rocky Mountains, Great Plains
October 26, 2020
“One case can take out a whole team of people in a blink of an eye.”
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News
Patients can read your clinical notes starting Nov. 2
October 22, 2020
“Open notes” mandates immediate patient access to inpatient and outpatient notes and testing and imaging results.
