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UCLA Exec: Patient-Centered Approach Essential to Quality of Hospital Care
April 1, 2013
A national healthcare expert will implore hospitalists to focus first on healing patients in his keynote address at SHM’s annual meeting, HM13
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Team Hospitalist Recommends Nine Don’t-Miss Sessions at HM13
April 1, 2013
Presentations about anticoagulants, physician value-based purchasing (VBP), and patient communications among hospitalists' top picks at SHM annual meeting
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Two Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Share Their Strategies for Success
April 1, 2013
Pairing with a multispecialty private-practice group and using nurse practitioners for at-home patient visits are tactics used by successful ACOs
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Gain Popularity with Physicians in Wake of Added Incentives, Revised Federal Rules
April 1, 2013
Health care providers cautiously optimistic that ACO’s shared responsibility model can cure some industry ills
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The Future of ACOs Remains Cloudy
April 1, 2013
Lack of incentives, flexibility could limit ACO success, widespread implementation
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Medical Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Spotlights Hospitalist Communication, Attention to Discharge Details
April 1, 2013
Listen to bonus excerpts of our interview with Ken Duckworth, medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Why Hospitalists Should Spread the Good Word on Capitol Hill
April 1, 2013
Hospitalist and SHM Public Policy Committee member Rick Hilger talks about his experience last year participating in his first Hospitalists on the Hill event in Washington, D.C.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to SHM Annual Meeting Course Director and Keynote Speaker
April 1, 2013
Bonus excerpts from interviews with HM13 course director Dan Brotman and HM13 keynote speaker David Feinberg
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The Process of Selling a Hospitalist Group from Start to Finish
April 1, 2013
Guidelines for mergers and acquisitions for hospital medicine practices of any size
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Robotic Vaporizers Reduce Hospital Bacterial Infections
April 1, 2013
New technology decreases spread of C. diff, MRSA, other superbugs, research shows
