Practice Management
News
Feds call for EHR interoperability. Again.
“Patients need to be able to access their own records. Period,” HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan said.
Practice Management
How do hospital medicine groups deal with staffing shortages?
The expanding and dynamic labor market for hospitalists has a challenging side for hospitals.
Public Policy
CMS modifies the inpatient admission order requirement, or did it?
Medicare auditors have been given discretion to overlook an inpatient order flaw, but providers have not.
Practice Management
Hospitalist groups explore use of medical scribes
Can medical scribes make life easier for hospitalists?
News
Guideline authors inconsistently disclose conflicts
Review of payment records shows some undisclosed payments of $10,000 or more.
News
Healthy, ethical environments can alleviate ‘moral distress’ in clinicians
Practice Management
Helping alleviate hospitalist burnout
Burnout will diminish when physicians are empowered to be part of the solution.
News
Study: Problems persist with APMs
Concerns reported in 2014 persisted into 2018 and were joined by new concerns over the pace of change and complexity as well as issues with two-...
Practice Management
“You have a pending query”
Physicians do not need to become coders, but it is helpful to have some understanding of what happens behind the scenes.
Video
Bias in the clinical setting can impact patient care
Health care providers may harbor implicit, or unconscious, biases that contribute to health care disparities.