• Audio

    LISTEN NOW: Hospitalist Manya Gupta on Choosing Wisely

    July 2, 2015

    Excerpt of our interviews with Choosing Wisely, hospitalist Manya Gupta, MD, an assistant professor in the department of internal medicine of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, discusses an example of a Choosing Wisely program. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads

  • Audio

    LISTEN NOW: Hospitalist Lisa Shieh on Choosing Wisely

    July 2, 2015

    Excerpt of our interviews with Choosing Wisely, Lisa Shieh, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses an example of a Choosing Wisely program. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Shieh_ChoosingWisely2015_FINAL_051015_LongVersion.mp3"][/audio]

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    LISTEN NOW: Gregory Seymann, MD, on Choosing Wisely

    July 2, 2015

    Gregory Seymann, MD, discusses a Choosing Wisely program. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Seymann_ChoosingWisely2015_FINAL_051215_long.mp3"][/audio]

  • News

    New Tool Improves Harm Detection for Pediatric Inpatients

    June 18, 2015

    The newly developed Pediatric All-Cause Harm Measurement Tool (PACHMT) improved detection of harms in pediatric inpatients in a recent pilot study. Using the tool, researchers found a rate of 40 harms per 100 patients admitted, and at least one harm in nearly a quarter of the children in the stud

  • News

    From a Near-Catastrophe, I-CARE

    June 9, 2015

    For Robert Fogerty, MD, MPH, it’s more than just a story. It’s a nightmare that he only narrowly avoided. Now a hospitalist at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., Dr.

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    Opinion

    Standard Text Messaging for Smartphones Not HIPAA Compliant

    June 1, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_9892" align="alignright" width="275"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Doctors were the first to begin using pagers and, along with drug dealers, appear to be the last to give them up.

  • News

    Quality Data Dashboards Provide Performance Feedback to Physicians

    June 1, 2015

    A best-of-research plenary presentation at HM15 in National Harbor, Md., described a project to link physicians’ schedules to the electronic health record (EHR) in order to provide real-time, individualized performance feedback on key quality improvement and value metrics. The abstract’s lead aut

  • News

    Why Physicians Override Best Practice Alerts

    June 1, 2015

    Research published earlier this year in the Journal of Hospital Medicine finds that rationales offered by physicians for overriding interruptive, computerized best practice alerts (BPAs) regarding whether or not to give blood transfusions vary widely, including specialty service protocolized behavio

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    Hospitals with Hotel-Like Amenities Don’t Improve Satisfaction Scores

    June 1, 2015

    Hospital design may not contribute to patients’ satisfaction with the care given by their hospital professionals, according to new research from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

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    News

    Hospitalists Should Make Commitment to Improve Healthcare Safety

    June 1, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_9884" align="alignright" width="250"] "Checklist Doctor" Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM, speaks to thousands of hospitalists at HM15. Image Credit: Manuel Noguera[/caption] Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM, knows how to deliver a great talk.