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Opinion
Tips for Hospitalists on Spending More of Their Time at the Top of Their License
July 29, 2015
[caption id="attachment_10717" align="alignright" width="250"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COMI think arranging post-hospital appointments should be no more difficult for the hospitalist than ordering a CBC.[/caption] Hospitalists spend too little time working at the top of their license.
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Opinion
Hospital Medicine’s Old Practices Become New Again
July 6, 2015
The musty collections of National Geographic magazines once found in so many basements are largely gone. Replacing them are dusty sets of the Advisory Board binders and booklets found in hospital administration offices around the country.
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Opinion
Bundled Payment and Hospital Medicine, Pt. 2
June 8, 2015
Editor’s note: Second in a two-part series examining bundled payments and hospital medicine. In full disclosure, Dr.
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Opinion
Standard Text Messaging for Smartphones Not HIPAA Compliant
June 1, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9892" align="alignright" width="275"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Doctors were the first to begin using pagers and, along with drug dealers, appear to be the last to give them up.
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Opinion
The Biggest Thing in Hospital Medicine Since Patient Safety?
April 4, 2015
Editor’s note: First of a two-part series examining bundled payments and hospital medicine. Additionally, Dr.
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Opinion
Rapid-Response Teams Help Hospitalists Manage Non-Medical Distress
April 3, 2015
A team that could respond quickly to social and behavioral concerns—and not medical issues per se—would have tremendous benefits for patients and caregivers. I think there has been a steady increase, over the last 20 years or so, in the number of very unhappy, angry, or misbehaving patients (e.g.
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Opinion
Geographic Rounding of Hospital Nurses Challenges Unit-Based Theory
March 3, 2015
Nurses, of course, have always been assigned by unit—that is, geographically. So it should come as no surprise that searching “unit-based” at the-hospitalist.org returns many articles about assigning hospitalists geographically, but not nurses, partly because few would consider it a new idea.
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Opinion
Much Ado about Hospital Quality
February 2, 2015
I have reported previously on major incentive programs under Medicare and the Affordable Care Act that affect hospitals and, by extension, their affiliated hospitalists. I’d like to provide you with an update on these programs.
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Opinion
How to Use Hospitalist Productivity, Compensation Survey Data
January 7, 2015
The 2014 State of Hospital Medicine report (SOHM), published by SHM in the fall of even years, is unquestionably the most robust and informative data available to understand the hospitalist workforce marketplace.
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Opinion
A Practice Resolution
December 2, 2014
In the heart of the holiday season’s gluttony (and the challenges of staffing the holidays), we need something to get us excited for 2015.
