2014 Electronic Newsletter Archive

December 18, 2014
- Forum Focus – Developing a workforce for health
- Study: Admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions declining
- Implementing a hand-off program improves care
- One health system’s journey toward personalized primary care
- Strategies and lessons learned from physician-led ACOs
- The challenges of a creating a clinically integrated network
December 4, 2014
- AHA toolkit targets preventable admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
- Thirty-five hospitals identified as Ebola treatment centers
- Antimicrobial drug use in hospitals appears to be common
- Study finds no significant change in ED care through malpractice reform
- MGMA report finds PQRS doesn’t enhance patient care improvement efforts
November 13, 2014
- Forum Focus – AHA unveils toolkit to help hospitals hire veterans
- Six challenges that must be addressed regarding antimicrobial resistance
- You’ve got mail: Patient-to-physician messaging volume tripled over past decade
- Duty-hour work reforms have not adversely affected patient outcomes
- Cohort to study implementation of new guidelines for medical school grads entering residency
- Medical school enrollment continues to climb
- Diversifying the medical workforce
October 30, 2014
- CDC releases updated guidance for Ebola virus disease
- CMS announces funding for learning networks to transform clinical practice
- AMA issues guidance to help physicians comply with DEA rule
- More medical students choosing to pursue a dual MD/MBA degree
- Study finds majority of physicians feel overextended, at full capacity
October 16, 2014
- Preparing hospitals for Ebola
- CMS shares physician quality and resource use reports
- AMA outlines priorities to improve EHR usability
- Paper looks at global impact of antimicrobial resistance
- Hospital leaders brief Congress on importance of GME
- Adding a physician to your board
- Website allows doctors to be completely transparent with their patients
October 2, 2014
- IOM committee issues recommendations for end-of-life care
- Following guidelines leads to cost savings
- White House issues strategy, order to prevent drug-resistant infections
- IOM workshop summary looks at how health system leaders are working toward high- value care
- Hospitalist movement continues to grow
September 18, 2014
- AHA report examines value of CME
- Forum Focus – It’s not just a numbers game: Implementing a patient blood management program
- AHA submits comments on proposed physician fee schedule rule for CY 2015
- Study finds potential for hospitals to reduce redundant antimicrobial therapies
- Half of all primary care, internal med positions went unfilled in 2013 survey finds
- Teaching good bedside manner
- Study looks at the price paid for futile care
- Lack of physicians practicing in rural areas remains a problem
September 4, 2014
- Medicare to start paying doctors for care coordination efforts
- Interstate medical licensure answer to physician shortages?
- State of Hospital Medicine Report released
- Study finds smaller physician practices have lower rates of preventable readmissions compared to larger ones
- More medical students learning empathy and emotional intelligence
- A majority of surgery residents have considered leaving training
August 21, 2014
- Forum Focus – A new alternative to clinical practice guidelines
- Medical schools adding antibiotic resistance training to the curriculum
- IOM panel recommends new financing system for physician training
- CDC issues Ebola guidance for environmental infection control in hospitals
- Physicians can help control supply chain costs
- Allowing clinicians slack to experiment
August 7, 2014
- Episode payment model leads to significant savings
- Survey finds physician pay increasingly tied to quality and patient satisfaction metrics
- CMS releases proposed rule on Medicare physician fee schedule
- Antibiotic resistance may be next pandemic, CDC director warns
- The hospitalist role in improving quality and value of care
- Boot camp aims to prevent „July effect”
- Helping alleviate burnout
July 24, 2014
- Forum Focus – AIAMC National Initiative IV: Mastering the Clinical Learning Environment
- PLF hosts session on innovative models of care delivery
- Shared decision-making leads to better outcomes
- What residents should know on day one
- ACPE and TJC launch CMO academy
- Spending limited money wisely on GME
- Some physicians wary of new MOC requirements
- Utilizing physician differentiation to create value
July 10, 2014
- CMS releases proposed physician payment rule
- Health care’s digital journey
- The importance of big data to fuel future health care knowledge
- Physicians playing strong leadership role in ACOs
- Doctors may soon be reimbursed for having end-of-life discussions
- Strategies for better physician engagement
June 26, 2014
- Technology increasingly becoming part of a doctor’s toolkit
- Collaborative looks to curb unnecessary testing
- Paper offers recommendations for physician leadership development programs
- Should hospitals employ physicians?
- Achieving clinical integration
June 12, 2014
- Forum Focus – Ryan’s Review….in three minutes or less!
- How to engage physicians in redesigning care
- The lost art of the physical exam
- Survey looks at effect of ACA exchange implementation on medical group practices
- Overprescribing of antibiotics for acute bronchitis continues
- Online game leads to better care for patients
- Doctors concerned about online ratings
May 29, 2014
- Study underway to evaluate new model of care coordination
- So far so good: Primary care system handling increase in patients
- AHA revamps quality website, provides tools to help improve care
- FDA issues draft regulatory framework for health IT
- Study: Overuse of certain tests and procedures costs Medicare billions of dollars a year
- Preparing medical school grads for their internships
May 15, 2014
- CMS issues regulatory reforms, including medical staff conditions of participation
- AHA comments on legislative proposal to collect patient assessment data
- New white paper discusses the value of physician leadership
- Incorporating team-based care into the medical school curriculum
- Are hospitalists naturally suited for hospital executive ranks?
- Engaging physicians
May 1, 2014
- AMA/AHA release proceedings from conference on new models of care
- Improving quality and costs with physician-led ACOs
- Considering cost when it comes to treatments
- Survey finds majority of physicians feel overuse is a serious problem
- New AMA report shows economic impact of physicians
- How different generations of docs will handle health reform
- Is it viable for physicians to opt out of Medicare?
April 17, 2014
- Forum Focus – Appropriate Use of Resources: Patient Blood Management
- New report, website examine health care realignment trend
- Reimagining the hospital-physician partnership
- The power of physicians as embedded critics
- Calling in the military to train physician leaders
- Can technology actually boost the physician-patient relationship?
- Burnt out primary care docs changing course
April 3, 2014
- SGR bill passes the Senate, president signs into law
- AHA urges FDA to increase U.S. supply of saline, other IV solutions
- AABB announces new patient blood management standards
- Congressional physicians helping to shape national health care policy
- Medical school seniors, others matched to residency slots
- Social networks for physicians on the rise
- Helping physicians re-engage with their noble purpose
March 20, 2014
- Team-based care gaining traction
- The time has come to embrace mHealth
- Immigrant doctors making career changes
- Report: Residency work-hour reforms have no effect on patient safety outcomes
- Graded autonomy in medical education
- Integrating behavioral health across the continuum of care
- Gap between primary care and specialty physician compensation declines
March 6, 2014
- Forum Focus – Physician leaders engaging physicians to lead: Keys to success from the C-suite to the clinical front line
- CDC issues antibiotic stewardship tools for hospitals
- ACGME, AOA, AACOM commit to a single GME accreditation system
- Two-midnight bill introduced in the Senate
- Hospitalist field continues to grow
- U.S. doctors continue shift to salaried positions
- Majority of osteopathic medical students match into primary care residency slots
February 20, 2014
- Forum Focus – Physician leadership: The implications for a transformed delivery system
- ACGME issues guidance for assessing U.S. residency programs
- Improving the clinical learning environment for physicians
- Study finds telemedicine helps expand access to care
- Syrian crisis takes a toll on its physicians
- Uncertainty remains over independent physicians
February 6, 2014
- Group issues self-assessment tool for hospitalist practices
- Doctors facing new requirements for MOC
- Negotiation brings different parties together in a constructive way
- Choosing Wisely® campaign encouraging, but needs to be more courageous some doctors say
- Rural hospitals need to recruit, embrace, and engage their physicians
January 23, 2014
- Forum Focus – Physician Leadership Forum announces 2014 Committee on Clinical Leadership
- Report examines physician leadership education
- Suggestions for viable physician payment reform
- Is the time right to trade malpractice reform with health reform?
- Doctors propose creating new provider type under Medicare
- Independent physicians continue migration to hospital employment
January 9, 2014
- Helping trainees „choose wisely”
- Most doctors still accepting Medicare patients
- Physicians open to receiving hospice themselves more likely to discuss it with patients
- Report finds physician prescribing style and lack of consensus contribute to pediatric care variation
- Drug maker no longer to pay physicians to promote its drugs
- List offers view of issues facing physicians in 2014
- The slow extinction of the doctor’s lounge

2014 Electronic Newsletter Archive

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