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Startup Pharmacy Takes Mail-Order to Next Level, Could Solve Medication Management Issue for Millions
June 10, 2015
It only takes one idea to help change the face of medicine and, recently, Forbes posted an article outlining a small startup pharmacy that could change the way we get our medication.
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Physician Learns Lessons About Patient Care from Failure
June 8, 2015
“Are you comfortable talking to him about all this stuff?” my attending asked me casually.
“Yeah, of course—sure,” I replied, trying to mimic the same casual tone.
STOP!
Hold on.
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Medical Care Overuse Causes Waste, Harm in Healthcare
June 8, 2015
A trickle of anecdotes has become a flood of cautionary tales.
There’s one about the patient in intensive care who didn’t have a cardiac condition yet still had a troponin blood test on 26 consecutive days.
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Opinion
Bundled Payment and Hospital Medicine, Pt. 2
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
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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Quality Data Dashboards Provide Performance Feedback to Physicians
June 1, 2015
A best-of-research plenary presentation at HM15 in National Harbor, Md., described a project to link physicians’ schedules to the electronic health record (EHR) in order to provide real-time, individualized performance feedback on key quality improvement and value metrics.
The abstract’s lead aut
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Movers and Shakers in Hospital Medicine, June 2015
May 31, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9750" align="alignleft" width="66"] Dr. Bugger[/caption]
Tammy Bugger, hospitalist practice administrator at Alton Memorial Hospital (AMH) in Alton, Ill., was awarded Manager of the Year for Illinois by BJC Medical Group.
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Society of Hospital Medicine’s RIV Poster Contest Draws Best, Brightest
May 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9306" align="alignright" width="295"] Donald Tashkin, MD, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., talks about his poster in the RIV poster competition.[/caption]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—On one end of the cavernous exhibit hall space at HM15 stood Brendan Sullivan, OMS-II, a second-year
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Just-In-Time CPR Training Studied in Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrest
May 5, 2015
Outcomes for JIT CPR training, with or without visual feedback, improves compliance with chest compression rate, depth guidelines during simulated CPA
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Society of Hospital Medicine Names 2015 Excellence Award Winners
May 5, 2015
SHM recognizes hospitalists, healthcare leaders for outstanding contributions to HM
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Palliative Care and Last-Minute Heroics
April 9, 2015
4/8/15
Session: Last-Minute Heroics and Palliative Care – Do They Meet in the Middle?
HM15 Presenter: Tammie Quest, MD
Summation: Heroics- a set of medical actions that attempt to prolong life with a low likelihood of success.
Palliative care- an approach of care provided to patients and