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HM16 Session Analysis: Update in Pulmonary Medicine
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Daniel D. Dressler, MD, MSc, SFHM
Summary: This presentation focused on pulmonary updates specific to hospitalist practice, from end of 2014 to early 2016.
New research on community-acquired pneumonia suggest that only 38% of cases a presumptive pathogen will be isolated.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Maximizing Collaboration With PAs & NPs: Rules, Realities, Reimbursement
- Amanda Trask, MBA, MHA;
- Cmpe, SFHM;
- Fache
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Tricia Marriott, PA-C, MPAS, MJ Health Law
Summary: Ms. Marriott brought humor to a detailed #HospMed16 presentation on the rules of reimbursement and Medicare requirements for physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs).
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HM16 Session Analysis: Health Information Technology Controversies
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Julie Hollberg, MD
Summary: Dr.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Reinforcing Practice Culture, Maximizing Engagement Through Effective Communication
- Amanda Trask, MBA, MHA;
- Cmpe, SFHM;
- Fache
March 9, 2016
HM16 Presenters: Dr. Scott Rissmiller, Dr. Steve Deitelzweig, Dr. Jerome Siy, Dr. Thomas Mcllraith, and Dr.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Physician Engagement in Quality Improvement
March 8, 2016
Presenter: Jordan Messler, MD, SHFM
Summary: The main objective of this lecture was to understand the culture that often limits physician engagement.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Infectious Disease Emergencies: Three Diagnoses You Can’t Afford to Miss
March 8, 2016
Presenter: Jim Pile, MD, Cleveland Clinic
Summary: The following three infectious diagnoses are relatively uncommon but important not to miss as they are associated with high mortality, especially when diagnosis and treatment are delayed.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Hospital Quality, Patient Safety Update for 2015
March 8, 2016
HM16 Presenters: Mangla Gulati, MD, FACP, FHM, and Ian Jenkins, MD
Summary: There is some evidence that hospital adverse events may be decreasing.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Lead Your Way to Success: Five Key Lessons for Hospitalists
March 7, 2016
Physicians Nasim Afsar, MD, SFHM, and Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, presented key leadership lessons to a standing-room-only audience at Hospital Medicine 2016, the “Year of the Hospitalist.” The value of leadership and management skills is important in every day decisions from co-management of patients to
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HM16 Session Analysis: ICD-10 Coding Tips
- Amanda Trask, MBA, MHA, FACHE, CMPE, SFHM
March 7, 2016
Presenter: Aziz Ansari, DO, FHM
Summary: With the implementation of ICD-10, correct and specific documentation to ensure proper patient diagnosis categorization has become increasingly important.
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LISTEN NOW: Kendall Rogers, MD, SFHM, Discusses Hm16’s New Health IT Track
February 8, 2016
Kendall Rogers, MD, SFHM, chair of SHM’s Health IT Committee, discusses HM16 having a separate track for health IT, to whom the track is geared, and translating tech-savviness into actually being effective in helping to develop practical health IT.
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