Opinion
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: November 1, 2012
Developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) program is as much about documentation as it ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: October 1, 2012
Hospitals must meet October 1st deadline for complying with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hospital Readmission Reduction Program...
Opinion
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: August 28, 2012
The challenges current EHRs present to QI efforts and what features EHRs need to incorporate to better serve the needs of patients and clinicians
Opinion
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: July 31, 2012
Patients, hospitalists caught in crosshairs of the observation status conundrum.
Opinion
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: July 2, 2012
CMS' chief medical officer sheds some light on confusing and aggravating Medicare issue.
News
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: May 25, 2012
Cost Is the New Quality; Waste Is the New Cost
News
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: April 26, 2012
Game on with SHM’s Complex Medically Ill Project
News
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: March 30, 2012
Looking back, many of us saw the huge opportunity created by the CMS core measures a decade ago. A good number of core measures recently have been ...
News
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: December 1, 2005
An interim report from the SHM Career Satisfaction Task Force
News
- Author:
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
Publish date: July 1, 2005
In January 2004, the Mercy Inpatient Medicine Service embarked on a quality-based incentive program, or “pay-for-performance.” This was spurred on ...
