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Drive Change in an ACO
April 30, 2013
Change your mindset and consider four key strategies
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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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Medicare CMO Encourages Hospitalists to Become Experts in Managing Quality Patient Care
April 1, 2013
A top official at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will deliver a keynote speech urging hospitalists to step up their focus on patient-centered outcomes 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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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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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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Digital Diagnostic Tools Unpopular with Patients, Study Finds
April 1, 2013
Patients fear computerized clinical decision support will reduce face time with physicians
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National Medicare Readmissions Study Identifies Little Progress
April 1, 2013
30-day hospital readmission rates stagnate, research shows
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Society of Hospital Medicine Launches Online Training Program for Hospitalists
March 2, 2013
SHM’s Hospital Quality & Patient Safety Online Academy courses help hospitalists prepare and lead quality initiatives to improve patient outcomes
