News
Medicare Penalties Make Hospital-Acquired-Infection Solutions a Priority
September 1, 2013
Regulatory shift would reduce reimbursement to hospitals for treating patients with certain HAIs
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News
How Copper Could Solve Problem of Hospital-Acquired Infections
September 1, 2013
Antimicrobial effect of copper-alloy surfaces kills 99.9% of bacteria, can supplement efforts to decrease HAIs
Audio
Listen to Project BOOST lead analyst Luke Hansen, MD, MPH, discuss the outcomes study published in JHM
August 2, 2013
Luke Hansen, MD, MPH, Project Boost lead analyst and lead author of the research paper published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, talks about the research, its context, the challenges it faced and the results achieved despite the difficulties
News
Can Medicare Pay for Value?
August 2, 2013
Physician quality reporting system (PQRS) and physician value-based payment modifier (VBPM) plan could reward high-quality, low-cost health care
News
Three Easy Ways to Get Ahead in Hospital Medicine
August 2, 2013
SHM’s Awards of Excellence program, Project BOOST initiative, Choosing Wisely campaign can advance your career, hospital
News
The Pros and Cons of Electronic Health Records
August 2, 2013
Payments for demonstrating meaningful use of EHR technology can benefit eligible professionals, hospitals, but problems with upcoding, physician notes persist
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Opinion
Bundled-Payment Program Basics
August 2, 2013
Hospitalists’ roles and financial stake in health-care reimbursement model of accountable care organizations
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News
Hospitalists Hold Key to Admissions Door for ED Patients
August 2, 2013
Partnering with ED physicians helps hospitalists tackle problem of emergency department boarding for admitted patients
News
Are Hospital Readmissions Numbers Fruit of an Imperfect Equation?
July 1, 2013
Medicare says penalties are working, but academic centers and safety-net hospitals are caught in the middle
News
Hospitalist Pioneer Bob Wachter Says Cost, Waste Reduction Is New Quality Focus
July 1, 2013
Dr. Wachter closed SHM's 2013 annual meeting in National Harbor, MD, with a keynote address that identified cost and waste reduction as new planks of hospitalist's value proposition.
