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Opinion
How’s your postacute network doing?
April 7, 2017
Hospitalists should lead the discussion with patients on postacute facility selection as it relates to which facilities are in the network and why going to a network facility is advantageous.
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Opinion
Transitioning from your current medical practice: an abbreviated step-by-step guide
April 5, 2017
You have decided it is time to move on from your current position and transition into a new role. While this decision is exciting, it is critical that you make a plan and take specific steps to ensure that the transition is seamless.
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News
Sneak Peak: The Hospital Leader Blog
- Ann M. Sheehy, MD, MS, FHM
April 3, 2017
There is no doubt transparency is important, and patients should be informed when hospitalized as outpatients instead of as inpatients. But the wisdom of the federal NOTICE Act essentially stops there.
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News
HM17’s ‘must-see sessions’
March 31, 2017
11 editorial board recommendations for precourses, breakout sessions, and workshops
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News
Adapting to change: Dr. Robert Wachter
March 31, 2017
Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, has given the final plenary address at every SHM annual meeting since 2007. His talks are peppered with his one-of-a-kind take on the confluence of medicine, politics, and policy – and at least once he broke into an Elton John parody. Where does that point of view ...
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News
HM17: Plenaries – Conway and DeSalvo
March 22, 2017
The keynote speakers at HM17 are both optimistic about the future of the U.S. health care system, despite concerns about the rollback of the Affordable Care Act and what that could mean for access to care.
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News
Trending at the Society of Hospital Medicine
March 10, 2017
The latest news, events, programs, and SHM initiatives.
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News
MACRA: What every hospitalist needs to know
- Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, FACP, SFHM;
- Nasim Afsar-Manesh, MD, SFHM;
- Suparna Dutta, MD, MS, MPH
March 10, 2017
Nearly every hospitalist will be affected; the majority will use the MIPS pathway in 2017.
Article
Community-based palliative care reduces hospitalizations
February 15, 2017
Clinical question: Does proactive home- and clinic-based palliative care impact hospital use and health care cost in Medicare Advantage beneficiaries?
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News
Do 30-day readmissions mean anything?
February 1, 2017
New research shows 97% of reasons for readmission are beyond clinician control.