Starting the Conversation toward a Better Patient Experience
Editor’s Note: Throughout the upcoming weeks, The Hospital Leader will feature posts from SHM’s 2016 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant recipients describing the QI projects they conducted as a part of...
View ArticleStudent Scholar Makes the Rounds to Improve Discharge Process
Editor’s Note: Throughout the upcoming weeks, The Hospital Leader will feature posts from SHM’s 2016 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant recipients describing the QI projects they conducted as a part of...
View ArticleTaking the First Steps to Becoming a QI Change Agent
Editor’s Note: Throughout the upcoming weeks, The Hospital Leader will feature posts from SHM’s 2016 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant recipients describing the QI projects they conducted as a part of...
View ArticleYou May Have The Killer Med App. But My Hand Still Beats Yours.
Think about how many times per week you pull out your medical calculator to plug and play a Wells or CHADS-VASc score. Twice? Three times? Now think about how many times you get pestered about...
View ArticleWow! A Two-fer
First I hear the American Board of Pediatrics ordains hospital medicine as a bonafide subspecialty. Then, for the adults among us, CMS issues a hospitalist specialty code. No joke. A specialty...
View ArticleER Docs And Out Of Network Billing. Are We In The Same Boat?
This recent article in the NYT and the NEJM study precipitating it widened the (malevolent) coverage of the fees paid by patients and insurance companies to out of network physicians. If you are not...
View ArticleNew ABIM MOC Two-Year Plan for Internal Medicine Threatens the Focused...
After two years of study and conversation with the Internal Medicine community, the American Board of Internal Medicine announced just before the holidays that it has landed on a “next step” for...
View ArticleUS Versus Foreign Trained Docs: Who Saves More Lives?
Yeah, I know the headline drew you in. I sleuthed ya—but I have a reason. A study out in BMJ today, and its timing is uncanny given the immigration ban we are now experiencing. First, to declare my...
View ArticleWe Are All Accomplices In The Great American Coding Swindle
“Membership in the American Academy of Professional Coders has risen to more than 170,000 today from roughly 70,000 in 2008.” “The AMA owns the copyright to CPT, the code used by doctors. It publishes...
View ArticleYou Have Lowered Length of Stay. Congratulations. You’re Fired.
For several decades, providers working within hospitals have had incentives to reduce stay durations and keep patient flow tip-top. DRG-based and capitated payments expedited that shift. Accompanying...
View Article#JHMChat: Operating at the Intersection of Gore-Tex® and Twitter
Have you ever wondered if there’s a correlation between Gore-Tex® (Think: rain jacket material) and Social Media? No!? Well, I have… It turns out there may be more commonality between these topics than...
View ArticleQI Success with SHM’s Student Scholar Grant Program
By: Aram A. Namavar, MS and Patricia Seymour, MS, MD, FAAFP, FHM The seasons are changing, NBA basketball has returned, and the fourth-year medical students are traveling across the nation for their...
View ArticleSpeaking at a Conference? Read These Tips First.
Recently, I was asked to present my top public speaking tips for a group of women leaders. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, and one that I teach a number of groups, from medical students to...
View ArticleTips for New Attendings
It is that time of year… it’s hotter, more humid and more hazy. However, while most of the academic world slows down in the summer for sabbatical, hospitals everywhere are frantically orienting new...
View ArticleYou Have Lowered Length of Stay. Congratulations. You’re Fired.
For several decades, providers working within hospitals have had incentives to reduce stay durations and keep patient flow tip-top. DRG-based and capitated payments expedited that shift. Accompanying...
View Article#JHMChat: Operating at the Intersection of Gore-Tex® and Twitter
Have you ever wondered if there’s a correlation between Gore-Tex® (Think: rain jacket material) and Social Media? No!? Well, I have… It turns out there may be more commonality between these topics than...
View ArticleQI Success with SHM’s Student Scholar Grant Program
By: Aram A. Namavar, MS and Patricia Seymour, MS, MD, FAAFP, FHM The seasons are changing, NBA basketball has returned, and the fourth-year medical students are traveling across the nation for their...
View ArticleSpeaking at a Conference? Read These Tips First.
Recently, I was asked to present my top public speaking tips for a group of women leaders. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, and one that I teach a number of groups, from medical students to...
View ArticleTips for New Attendings
It is that time of year… it’s hotter, more humid and more hazy. However, while most of the academic world slows down in the summer for sabbatical, hospitals everywhere are frantically orienting new...
View ArticleThe QI Pipeline Supported by SHM’s Student Scholar Grant Program
By: Emily Gottenborg, MD and Ashley Duckett, MD As fall arrives, new interns are rapidly gaining clinical confidence, and residency recruitment season is ramping up. It’s also time to announce the...
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