News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: March 28, 2017
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation lauded as proving ground for health care experimentation.
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: March 28, 2017
Patient-facing apps have potential to help high-need, high-cost populations, but technology also poses risks.
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: March 24, 2017
HM16 abstract explains how Lean/Six Sigma methods might streamline admissions.
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: March 24, 2017
Commentary encourages engaging patients’ friends, family to assist in health care optimization.
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: March 22, 2017
Study reports sharing tool strengthens relationships, improve safety.
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: February 1, 2017
New research shows 97% of reasons for readmission are beyond clinician control.
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: December 15, 2016
Hospitalists touch the lives of patients and shape health systems’ practices and health policy on a national and international scale according to a...
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: December 15, 2016
Provisions in the Affordable Care Act encourage hospitals to work with their communities to improve population health.
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: December 8, 2016
Between 700,000 and 1 million people fall each year in U.S. hospitals, and about a third of those result in injuries that add an additional 6.3 days t...
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: December 8, 2016
Inpatient hospitalization can be a key time for patients to quit smoking, according to an abstract called “No More Butts: An Automated System for Inpa...
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: November 10, 2016
Rates of 30-day readmissions are of major concern to hospitalists
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: November 10, 2016
Congress is considering the Medicare Telehealth Parity Act, intended to modernize the way Medicare reimburses telehealth services and to expand locati...
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: November 3, 2016
Research has shown that inappropriate usage of inpatient telemetry monitoring increases costs to the healthcare system
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: November 3, 2016
The hospitalist’s performance is among the major determinants of a patient’s hospital experience. But what are the elements of a successful interactio...
News Author: Suzanne Bopp Publish date: October 13, 2016
The Joint Commission recently announced a new Medication Management (MM) standard for hospitals, critical-access hospitals, and nursing care centers.
