The Year of the Hospitalist
On the heels of next week’s HM16 conference in San Diego, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finally introduced a dedicated billing code for hospitalists. We will get to ‘why...
View ArticleMeet Dan Nottingham, MedAptus Vice President of Product Management
MedAptus is thrilled to have recently welcomed a seasoned product management leader to our team. Dan Nottingham brings a wealth of health information technology experience to MedAptus, with proven...
View ArticleTrust me, I’m a doctor
When it comes to testimonials, I can be a skeptic. Just the other day I saw a commercial for something (I can’t remember what) where there are two people featured, no names, saying generic things like...
View ArticleThe Role of Continuity in the Acute Care Setting
There are many frustrating aspects of dealing with a hospitalization, whether you, your child or your parent is the patient. One of the most challenging aspects is the entire lack of control, from...
View ArticleBye bye MU – Hello MACRA
Aren’t healthcare acronyms fun? ACA, MU, PQRS, HIPAA, ACO… and most recently, MACRA. Learn it, live it, love it: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. Oh wow, an acronym in an acronym! And if...
View ArticleAdvice: How to Avoid “Making the List”
Our Chief Medical Officer, Ryan Secan, MD MPH, was recently featured on HISTalk for a lighthearted look at ways hospitalists can’t get out of making the patient list. I see my suggesting of “Admit...
View ArticleCare Coordination – The Reality Behind the Buzz
These days it seems there are only a handful of healthcare technology companies – population health, analytics, secure communication and care coordination. Or rather, everyone does some or all of it....
View ArticleWebinar: Transform your inpatient assignment
If your hospital is like most, you’re doing patient distribution by hand. So someone who should be providing patient care is spending valuable time handling assignment instead. Maybe it’s always been...
View ArticleIssue 1 Volume 1 of Hospitalist Insights
A bi-weekly news round-up to update hospitalists and other acute-focused physicians around happenings relevant to their practice. Direct to Consumer Lab Tests Home testing services say they are...
View ArticleIssue 2 – From value based medicine adoption to cheap meals
It’s the end of the month and time for another look at recent news of interest for inpatient-focused providers. Why Value-Based Care is About Mindset (not Money) Every week, more and more medical...
View ArticleMaking Morning Rounds More Patient-Centric
I saw an article today summarizing research that found that delayed physician rounding increases postpartum women’s satisfaction with their hospital experience and patient-physician communication. And...
View ArticleIs Physician and Nurse Burnout Contagious?
Is burnout contagious? Is it communicated from one provider to another? Two different studies—on focusing on physicians and another on nurses—tried to answer that question and, not surprisingly, both...
View ArticleErrors and Omissions: How Healthcare and Aviation Compare
If there’s one common trait aviation and healthcare share, it’s the notion that both are expected to function without error. We expect pilots and the planes they fly to operate flawlessly, to get us...
View ArticleMedAptus Adds Nursing Expert to Product Management Team
MedAptus has hired a subject-matter nursing expert to help shape its new patient assignment software, ASSIGN for Nurses. Lisa Quinn, PhD, RN, OCN joins the company’s marketing and product management...
View ArticleMedAptus Launches New Patient Assignment Software for Nurses
Assigning patients just got a whole lot easier for charge nurses. MedAptus has launched ASSIGN for Nurses, a new software program that matches the right patients with the right nurse by applying a...
View ArticlePatient Acuity Tool: Where Are We Now?
Assessing patient acuity has been around in some version for more than 50 years. But has anything changed? Has technology improved the process of capturing a patient’s acuity so that the nursing staff...
View ArticleCollective Intelligence and Healthcare
If hospitals and other healthcare organizations comprise a number of very smart and intelligent individuals, shouldn’t the groups in which they participate in be more collectively intelligent as well?...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Physician Burnout
By the acknowledgement of just about everyone in healthcare, physician burnout has become a significant problem. But what is the cost of that problem for hospitals and is there justification for...
View ArticleThe Joy of Medicine
Nearly 20 years ago colleagues at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) used the term “healthy workplaces” to describe a positive and productive healthcare environment. Since that time,...
View ArticleClinical Workflow Impediments
While Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in hospitals have been applauded for improving information transfer and for providing ready access to data to multiple providers, they have also been blamed...
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