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    Welcome to the third and final day of HM17!

    May 4, 2017

    Welcome to the third and final day of HM17!Although it is the shortest day of the conference, day 3 is full of quality content, starting at 7:40 a.m. with a mini-track.If you are interested in hearing about the impact of November’s election on health care reform, join me at the Health Poli...

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    Hope and change

    May 4, 2017

    Dr. Robert Wachter, the dean of hospital medicine, will give his traditional last plenary address of the meeting on Thursday.

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    RIV winners celebrated for their creative use of data

    May 3, 2017

    This year’s RIV innovation winners reflect a nascent trend of applying informatics to quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

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    Foresight and hard work – not inevitability – shaped HM, CEO says

    May 3, 2017

    “The future fits what hospital medicine is all about: We’re about value, we’re about creating the new future,” SHM CEO Dr. Laurence Wellikson said during his plenary address Wednesday.

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    Conway says health care payment, quality reform to continue

    May 3, 2017

    Health care will continue its trajectory to higher value, lower costs, and improved quality for patients, keynote speaker Dr. Patrick Conway said Wednesday.

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    From idea to abstract, RIV posters highlight novel thinking

    May 3, 2017

    LAS VEGAS – Always-popular abstract competition positions hospitalists as national leaders.

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    Forum focuses on forging Q.I. connections

    May 3, 2017

    Scrounging for information that could help her with quality improvement (Q.I.) projects, Charmaine Lewis, MD, MPH, the quality director with New Hanover Hospitalists in Wilmington, N.C., said she finds herself reviewing posters at the Annual Meeting and squinting at the images to see whether the...

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    Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects

    May 3, 2017

    Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, asked the audience how many of them had done a quality improvement project that had failed. It was not a time to be bashful: Almost half the hospitalists ...

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    Workshop to help hospitalists with patient flow

    May 3, 2017

    Thursday at HM17, a panel of experts will lead small workshops of audience members on how to put the “go” back in the flow.

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    Culture change necessary to weed out health care overuse

    May 3, 2017

    Chris Moriates, MD, assistant dean for healthcare value and associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, drew insight from writer David Foster Wallace on Tuesday afternoon as he discussed overuse in hospital care.He cited a story by Wallace: Two young...