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Hospitalists Lead the Way for Hospital at Home Programs

Care at home is about improving the quality of medical care, Dr. Murphy said. Hospital at home is another approach to doing that in new ways. Quality metrics include transfers … See more

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Hospital medicine and the future of smart care

According to one estimate, the global smart home health care market was $8.7 billion in 2019, and is expected to be $96.2 billion by 2030. 6. Smart technologies will have …

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Introduction to population management

David A. Kindig, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, defined population health as “the health outcomes of a …

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Hospital at Home: Delivering hospital-level care without the hospital

By. Marina Farah, MD, MHA. May 25, 2021. The United States spends one-third of the nation’s health dollars on hospital care, amounting to $1.2 trillion in 2018. 1 U.S. …

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Hospitalists Talk about Rebuilding Trust in Health Care

Trust in health care has gradually eroded in the U.S. over the last four decades. While 80% of Americans showed confidence in the medical system in 1975, only 37% …

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Why Hospitalists Should Embrace Population Health

Population health focuses on the specific health needs of an individual within a defined population. “In order to truly measure a patient’s health outcomes and identify best …

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The changing landscape of medical education

Most hospitalists trained in an educational system influenced by Sir William Osler. In the early 1900s, he introduced the natural method of teaching, positing that student …

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Hospitalist Finds Her Niche in Quality and Patient Safety

Q & A with Isha Puri, MD, MPH, FHM, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Puri, a volunteer member of The Hospitalist’s editorial board, joined hospital …

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SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine Report Includes New Data

August 10, 2023. SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine (SoHM) Repor t contains the first data on hospital medicine groups since before the COVID-19 pandemic started in early 2020. SHM …

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The Society of Hospital Medicine is partnering with 18 U.S.

The Society of Hospital Medicine Center for Hospital Innovation is supporting the implementation of a second iteration of the Multi-Center Medication Reconciliation Quality …

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Document Patient History

Document Patient History. By. Carol Pohlig. April 2, 2008. Documentation in the medical record serves many purposes: communication among healthcare professionals, …

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Six Interventions To Radically Improve the U.S. Healthcare System

A series of articles published between The New England Journal of Medicine and the Harvard Business Review aims to discover and suggest solutions to the issues currently …

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The Obesity Problem in U.S. Hospitals

In a Novation survey of VHA member hospitals released in December 2004, 28% of respondents reported an increase in workplace injuries—primarily back injuries—related to …

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Five Approaches to Change Management in Quality Improvement …

Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It’s Time to Step Up January 3, 2023. I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to …

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LGBTQIA+ Patient Care

Lauren Titus, MD, a pediatric hospital medicine fellow at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is interviewing LGBTQIA+ youth ages 12 to 20 to understand their …

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The Pros and Cons of Electronic Health Records

An electronic health record (EHR)—sometimes called an electronic medical record (EMR)—allows health-care providers to record patient information electronically instead of …

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Social media and health information: Empowering or misleading

It means a health consumer who uses the Internet to gather information about a medical condition for themselves or on behalf of family and friends and uses electronic …

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Kathryn Doyle Archives

News After a Fracture, Patients Often Continue Meds that Boost Fracture Risk September 2, 2016. Older people who break a bone are often receiving medications that can increase the …

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Potential Dangers of Using Technology in Healthcare

Potential Dangers of Using Technology in Healthcare. The incident that perhaps most fully impressed the potential dangers of electronic health records (EHRs) on hospitalist …

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Use the Teach-Back Method to Confirm Patient Understanding

There are a few key things to remember as you perform teach-back. The first is to ensure you use a caring tone when speaking with your patients. Next, if you have several …

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Massachusetts Healthcare Law Highlights Implications for National

The law has brought coverage to nearly 412,000 previously uninsured residents (as of December 2010, the latest figures available), and less than 2% of residents remain …

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