Hospital Medicine

• Hospitalists can improve patient compliance after hospital discharge, reduce hospitalization stays and promote better use of health plan drug formularies. However, hospitalist services face many challenges.
  
  
• One medical group's experience developing an internal medicine hospitalist program
  
  
• How do you combine hospitalist medicine with academic practice?
  
  
• Learn how to recruit and retain physicians for your hospitalist program
  
  
• The four pillars of career satisfaction and recommendations that hospitalist employers can use to improve the work environment
  
  
• How to measure hospitalist performance with metrics, reports and dashboards

From MGMA:

MGMA 2010 Annual Conference
Oct. 24-27, 2010

MGMA 2011 PEER Conference
March 2-5, 2011

PEER features an all-new, highly-participatory format that will empower you to discover new ways to tackle your most critical challenges. It promises to be an experience unlike any other conference you have attended.

From SHM:

Practice Administrator's Roundtable Series: "Hospitalist Return on Investment: Measuring & Demonstrating Value to Hospital Leadership"
Sept. 9, 2010

This interactive session will explore: 

• Definitions and types of return on investment from Hospitalist programs
• Development of methods and metrics to measure these outcomes
• Approaches to using internal and external benchmarks
• Strategies to communicate return on investment to hospital leadership

Leadership Academy (Level I & II) Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sept. 13-16, 2010

SHM's Leadership Academies are designed to provide hospitalist leaders with the skills and resources required to successfully lead and manage a hospital medicine program now and in the future.

Our expert faculty have created a program that benefits both physician and non-physician providers by covering vital topics such as overcoming leadership challenges, effectively advocating a hospitalist program, improving patient outcomes and so much more.

The 2010 Hospital Medicine Survey, part of MGMA's Physician Compensation and Production Survey, will be available for purchase this September. This year marks the first year of the joint effort from SHM and MGMA to produce the most in-depth and comprehensive survey of hospital medicine in the country. More information

From SHM:

• Improve the performance of your hospital medicine group withHospitalists: A Guide to Building & Sustaining a Successful Program. It aims to describe and characterize best practices and successful models within the fast-growing hospitalist movement
  
  

• Operate your hospital medicine group more effectively with the help of SHM’s new Practice Management site. 

From MGMA:

• Operating Policies & Procedures Manual for Medical Practices, 3rd edition. Natural disasters, declining reimbursement and more diverse patient populations have made the need for specialized medical practice policies and processes even greater.
  
  
• HR Policies & Procedures Manual for Medical Practices, 4th edition. Human resource issues in the medical practice setting have a reputation for being more complex than the mainstream; thus, the need for specialized information has never been greater.
  
  
• Electronic Health Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice, 2nd edition. While some electronic health record (EHR) implementations proceed on schedule with the team’s full participation and – seemingly – little effort, others flounder, stall, or struggle, experiencing only limited success or, in extreme cases, no success at all. What accounts for the difference?
  
  
• Medical Fees in the US: 2010 Edition. This book  includes everything you need to review your fees, set fees for new services, challenge low payments from third party payers and evaluate managed care contracts.
  
  
• Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results. Far too much emphasis has been placed on “tools, tools and more tools” (especially statistical techniques), resulting in rampant waste caused by poor everyday organizational use of data. This book offers a new way of thinking via a common organizational language based in process and understanding variation to motivate more productive daily conversations for everyone.
  
  
• Integrated Delivery Systems: Ensuring Successful Physician-Hospital Partnerships. As medical groups, hospitals, and health systems position themselves for the new marketplace, they must be proactive in establishing new relationships and affiliations. Because the outcomes of health system integration vary widely, this book will help steer organizations toward a common purpose – in a way that is meaningful to providers, administrators, and health care leaders, and most of all, to patients.
  
  
• See additional group practice management resources.

The new ICD-10 and HIPAA transaction standards

Hospital Medicine & Healthcare Reform

Timeline of Key Health Reform Provisions Important to Hospitalists