Practice Management
Practice Management
Burnout risk may be exacerbated by COVID crisis
“The biggest source of support for many hospitalists, beyond their family, is the group,” said Dr. Clarissa Barnes.
Public Policy
Medicare fines half of hospitals for readmitting too many patients
A hospital will be penalized if its readmission rate is higher than expected given national trends in select categories.
News
Health sector has spent $464 million on lobbying in 2020
PhRMA leads sector through the third quarter, with the American Hospital Association just behind.
Career
Physician burnout costly to organizations and U.S. health system
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
News
COVID spikes exacerbate health worker shortages in Rocky Mountains, Great Plains
“One case can take out a whole team of people in a blink of an eye.”
News
Patients can read your clinical notes starting Nov. 2
“Open notes” mandates immediate patient access to inpatient and outpatient notes and testing and imaging results.
Perspectives
Increasing racial diversity in hospital medicine’s leadership ranks
According to recent data, only 5.5% of hospital medicine group leaders were Black/African American.
Practice Management
Hospitalists and unit-based assignments
The push for geographic rounding comes from the need to achieve excellence in patient care and efficiency in work flow.
Public Policy
COVID-19 pandemic amplifies uncertainty for immigrant hospitalists
“It feels like we are essential health care workers but non-essential immigrants,” said Dr. Patel.