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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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Keep an Eye Out for Factitious Disorders
April 1, 2013
Room searches, probing conversations offer hospitalists and other providers vital clues
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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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SHM Sections Adds Global Health and Human Rights Category
April 1, 2013
New section reflects a growing interest among internal-medicine physicians in overseas placements
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Clinical Guidelines Updated for Surviving Sepsis in Hospitals
April 1, 2013
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign has new guidelines that aim to save 400,000 in 10,000 hospitals worldwide
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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
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Digital Diagnostic Tools Unpopular with Patients, Study Finds
April 1, 2013
Patients fear computerized clinical decision support will reduce face time with physicians
