Hospital Medicine
In barely more than a decade, hospital medicine has gone from a nearly unknown specialty to one of today's hottest new fields. Hospitalists are physicians who provide exclusively in-patient care. Hospitals, managed care companies and sometimes group practices employ them.
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) have partnered to bring you the latest news, information, resources, continuing education opportunities and more on this growing specialty. SHM is the largest organization in the nation representing hospitalists and the practice of hospital medicine. MGMA is the premier membership association for professional administrators and leaders of medical group practices.
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Quote of Note
From the "Hospitalist Leader"
"I wouldn't object to having a third party call up to ask on a systematic basis what the hospital team could do better to improve upon the patient experience, but that's an open-ended question motivated by the desire to impact future performance rather than a subtle guilt trip to get discharged patients to rate their hospital stay highly." – Jack Percelay
SHM's directory of hospitalist-related blogs
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Inside Hospital Medicine
Education
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MGMA 2012 Annual Conference
Hospitalist Resources
The 2011 State of Hospital Medicine report will be available for purchase in September. The report will include data specific to academic practices, as well. This is the second year of the joint effort between SHM and MGMA to produce the most in-depth and comprehensive survey of hospital medicine in the country.
The 2010 State of Hospital Medicine Report is available for purchase. Please see MGMA’s survey products or SHM’s online store.
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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.
- SHM/MGMA State of Hospital Medicine: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data
- See additional group practice management resources.
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