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Stanford Hospital Uses Telemedicine: Steps to the Future of Hospitals
Video consultation with doctors is becoming a routine part of the care offered by the Stanford Hospital & Clinics. The technology behind it is not a real innovation, it was already introduced on the island of Hawaii in 2008, but it’s good to see such a prestigious hospital joining the world of telemedicine.
Patients can schedule video visits through the hospital website, in much the same way as they would schedule a traditional visit and provide information about their symptoms in advance of the visit through the scheduling application. At the appointed time, they meet with the doctor in a Web-based videoconfere...
Source: ScienceRoll - September 22, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Future Health 2.0 Healthcare Hospital Medicine Medicine 2.0 Telemedicine Video Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
CMS Hospital Quality Star Ratings Update
We continue to monitor the CMS hospital quality star ratings on its Hospital Compare website. The overall star ratings are based on 64 quality measures grouped under three process categories—effectiveness of care, efficient use of medical imaging, and timeliness of care—and four outcomes categories: mortality, patient experience, readmissions, and safety of care. Few hospitals, even among the nation’s best, receive a five-star rating.
Recent Data
According to recent CMS star-rating data as reported by the Advisory Board:
Out of 3,629 hospitals eligible for a rating:
83 hospitals received a five-star rating;
946 ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Changes to 340B Program Reduces Hospital Reimbursement for Pharmaceutical Products by 28.5%
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Calendar Year (CY) 2018 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System final rule with comment period (CMS-1678-FC), which includes updates to the 2018 rates and quality provisions, and other policy changes. CMS adopted many policies that will support care delivery; reduce burdens for health care providers, especially in rural areas; lower beneficiary out of pocket drug costs for certain drugs; enhance the patient-doctor relationship; and promote flexibility in healthcare. This final rule p...
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 14, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
What to do when a patient wants to leave the hospital against medical advice
There’s an interesting article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine on what to do when a patient wants to leave the hospital against medical advice. After reading and rereading it, I had to disagree with the conclusion, but it took me a bit to get there because the article, with its confusing use of terms, is a masterpiece of obfuscation. The most obvious example is the oxymoronic use of the term “AMA discharge” in the title and throughout the article. If a patient leaves AMA, it’s not your decision. How is that a discharge? Put another way, if you discharge the patient you are making a statement that the pati...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/robert-donnell" rel="tag" > Robert Donnell, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Writing Effectively and Navigating the Publication Process: Advice from the Editors of Academic Medicine
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, our editors share their advice for authors submitting their scholarship for publication and describe what they look for when they’re reviewing submissions. Also included are resources to help authors write successfully and publish their work. This episode is meant for new authors and authors new to medical education and, while the advice comes from the editors of Academic Medicine, much of it also applies to other types of medical education scholarship, to scholarly publishing in other disciplines, and to submissions to other journals and publications.
This episode...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 19, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast scholarly publishing scholarly writing Writing Series Source Type: blogs
What’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine
Conclusions
Early outcomes reveal that a longitudinal, experiential curriculum can provide students with competencies that may prepare them for leadership roles in advocacy, research, and policymaking. Contact with diverse communities inculcates—in medical students with predispositions toward helping underserved populations—the self-efficacy and skills to positively influence underserved, urban communities.
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 5, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Issue Preview family-centered rounds fourth year course offerings literature underserved communities Urban Medicine value-based payment Source Type: blogs
Social Medicine
Editor’s Note: This post is one of two pieces on the Introduction to Social Medicine and Global Health course at Harvard Medical School. Check back next week for the other post.
By: Komal Kothari, an MD/MBA student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School
Komal Kothari is interested in practicing clinical medicine and applying business skills to improve health outcomes and lower the exorbitant costs of health care in the United States. She cares deeply about social justice and hopes to develop solutions to address social determinants of health and health care disparities.
When I see a patient in the hos...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 19, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective global health health disparities patient care patient centered care patient's story social determinants of health social medicine Source Type: blogs
CMS Opens Physician and Teaching Hospital Registration for Open Payments 2015 Data
CMS has announced that the Open Payments system is now open for physician and teaching hospital registration. While registering in the Open Payments system is not required for physicians or teaching hospitals, it is required in order to be able to review and dispute records attributed to them. The review and dispute period will begin in April 2016 and last for 45 days.
When data submission ends, physicians and teaching hospitals who have registered can review and dispute any records attributed to them. The initial registration is a two-step process and takes approximately thirty minutes. First, register in the CMS Enterp...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Becoming a Digital Contributor: A Reflection on the Expanding WikiProject Medicine Course
By: Christine Greipp, MLIS, fourth-year medical student, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
The Expanding WikiProject Medicine course at UCSF, described in a recent Academic Medicine article, intrigued me for a number of reasons. With a master of library science, I had been a medical librarian before a medical student. My prior work was in consumer health and patient education within a tertiary hospital. I firmly believe that medicine is at its best a partnership between physicians and patients. So I naturally jumped at the chance to participate in this project, which has the admirable and ambitious...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 17, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective humanities in medicine medical education medical students research Source Type: blogs
Sexual Harassment and Academic Medicine: Where Do We Go From Here?
By: Carol Bates, MD
C. Bates is associate dean for faculty affairs and associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
“It is Time for Zero Tolerance for Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine” is being published in the midst of a national conversation on sexual harassment across many spheres in society, but the first draft was written well before this, toward the end of the 2016 presidential election season. Most of the recent media attention has been in realms outside of academic medicine, but there have been a few media reports in our domain and we clearly have problems in our midst.
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 20, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective academic medine gender sexual harassment women in academic medicine Source Type: blogs
HONEST MEDICINE Now on Amazon.com
For over a year, I have been busy writing my book, HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases. It has been wonderful, terrible, exhausting—and ultimately, life-changing time.
And now it is published--and on Amazon.com!
The idea for HONEST MEDICINE started germinating in 2002, when my husband Tim was in the hospital with a non-healing post-surgical head wound caused when his suture line wouldn't heal. His doctors performed 8 surgeries to try to get his skin to heal. Nothing worked.
Then, through a friend and colleague, Dr. Carlos Reynes, I found Silverlon, a diffe...
Source: HONEST MEDICINE: My Dream for the Future - December 23, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JuliaS1573 at aol.com (Julia Schopick) Tags: Anecdotal Treatments Advocates Archived Articles Books Healthcare Reform Integrative Medicine Low Dose Naltrexone cancer Crohn's disease epilepsy Honest Medicine liver disease lupus multiple sclerosis rheumatoid arthritis Source Type: blogs
Why I Spoke with the Dalai Lama About Compassion in Medicine
I distinctly recall the moment I decided to become a
physician. I was sitting on a bench in
the hallway of Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, beside my aunt and older
cousin, as we waited for the physicians to complete their examination of my
beloved grandmother, in her early 90s, who was seriously ill. She doted on all of her grandchildren,
particularly me, as I was the youngest. I
loved my grandmother dearly. I recall
seeing the doctors, dressed in their white uniforms, emerge from her room,
holding her life in their hands. They eagerly
reported what turned out to be good news, and thankfull...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 23, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective compassion humanism in medicine medical education patient care Source Type: blogs
Choosing wisely in hospital medicine
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - September 14, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: hospital medicine quality and safety Source Type: blogs
Hospital medicine CME
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - November 3, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: medical education hospital medicine educational resources Source Type: blogs
