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Red Flags within Documentation for Hospitalists
July 1, 2011
With the number of clinical hospitalists still growing, more patients are under HM care, which puts hospitalists at higher risk for lawsuits.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Hospitalists discuss the time-honored tradition of hospital payments to HM groups
July 1, 2011
Troy Ahlstrom, MD, SFHM, CFO of Hospitalists of Northern Michigan, a hospitalist-owned and -managed group based in Traverse City, and John Laverty, DHA, vice president of hospital-based physicians at HCA Physician Services in Nashville, Tenn., discuss hospital payments to HM programs
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In the Literature: HM-Related Research You Need to Know
July 1, 2011
Physician reviews of the latest research, including risks of preoperative tobacco use, timing of perioperative beta blocker use and outcomes, outcomes of atenolol vs. metoporopol for perioperative beta blockade, and continuous vs. bolus dose diuretics in CHF.
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Into the Night
July 1, 2011
HM’s graveyard shift has professional, financial benefits
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to experts discuss drug shortages
July 1, 2011
Hospitalist Lalit Verma and ISMP President David Cohen talk about the myriad reasons behind drug shortages
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Hospitalists discuss strategies for indigent transitions
July 1, 2011
Experts discuss barriers to treating indigent patients, medication management's role in safe transitions, and new programs to help the homeless and uninsured population
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Academic Institutions
July 1, 2011
Hospitalist involvement, visit level key to teaching physician services
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Ultrasound More Common at the Bedside
July 1, 2011
A recent “Current Concepts” article in the New England Journal of Medicine (2011;364:749) by a pair of Yale University physicians asserts that the day is close at hand when ultrasound interpretations by clinicians at the patient’s bedside will become as routine in hospital care as the trusty stethoscope.
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What Is Your Value?
July 1, 2011
A proactive approach to collecting, sharing quality data is in your best interest
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Subsidy or Payment?
July 1, 2011
The story of hospitalist funding in six questions
