“Discharging the (Old) Discharge Summary: How AI is Rewriting the Last Chapter of the Hospital Stay” Hospital discharge summaries have always been the awkward epilogue of the patient’s inpatient journey—something between a clinical record, a legal form, and a lengthy regurgitation of disconnected items from within the chart. Traditionally, they’ve been authored by overworked residents […]

Reducing readmission rates, with a particular focus on Congestive Heart Failure, which is our index disease process due for this effort to its frequency, complexity, and high rates of both mortality and readmissions.

Translating a physical finding or a symptom directly into a diagnosis truly tests the skill and expertise of physicians and other providers.

In the last several years with a mixture of old and new medications that are effective individually and synergistically effective when used in combination. They are referred to as the 4 pillars of medical management of CHF.

Congestive heart failure has been on our front burner for a long time, for both inpatient and outpatient care, and for good reason.

The politics and economics of health care are inescapable. Here is some of what is being written about these endless developments.

Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here

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Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

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Selected review articles recently published – good care and diagnostic overviews. Read all about it.

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Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

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Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

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Articles from this month’s literature that focus on outpatient hospital care

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Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

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Selected review articles recently published – good care and diagnostic overviews. Read all about it.

Articles from this month’s literature that focus on outpatient hospital care

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The attached guidance document advises on testing scenarios for acute care sites to follow.

Policy change is a reflection of the ongoing evaluation of the care provided to our patients and healthcare environment.

ALL decisions to test must be communicated to COVID-19 hotline at 716-923-0670 for tracking purposes

Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

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Selected review articles recently published – good care and diagnostic overviews. Read all about it.

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In this post, the focus will shift towards avoiding diagnostic testing without a clear indication.

MOLST forms – everyone knows about them, everyone talks about them, but they are still subjects of controversy.

Click on to view Basic CDI Documentation Tips

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It challenging to step back and identify how the industrial force (and inevitable mechanization) of patient care can be prohibitive

Hotspotters gone cold – What happens when you change health care into something else

Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

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View Tips/Information that can be brought into the chart from – Community H&P, previous admissions, consults and more….

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Selected review articles recently published – good care and diagnostic overviews. Read all about it.

Articles from this month’s literature that focus on outpatient hospital care

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Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

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Selected review articles recently published – good care and diagnostic overviews. Read all about itOctober 2019

Articles from this month’s literature that focus on outpatient hospital care

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Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

Articles related to 3 essentials of care – Quality of Care, efficiency of care delivery, and designing optimal workflows

The politics and economics of health care are inescapable. Here is some of what is being written about these endless developments

Selected review articles recently published – good care and diagnostic overviews. Read all about it

Articles from this month’s literature that focus on outpatient hospital care

Articles from this month’s literature that focus on inpatient hospital care

Articles related to 3 essentials of care – Quality of Care, efficiency of care delivery, and designing optimal workflows

Value in healthcare is the obverse of waste. Easy to agree but hard to identify. Read more about it here.

The politics and economics of health care are inescapable. Here is some of what is being written about these endless developments

Selected review articles recently published – good care and diagnostic overviews. Read all about it

Developments pertinent to ambulatory care and our outpatient practices

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Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

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Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Hospitalists or primary care physicians who request to attend their patients while in the hospital. Must meet 2 requirements.

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Most patients with PE can be treated as outpatients or very short hospital stay. Here are some tips to getting your patient home promptly when they don’t need to be here.

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

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Too many consultations, too little discussion, and a broken system

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment.

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Current literature about doing things more effectively – avoiding excessive testing and treatment.

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Better value is needed but sometimes hard to find or define. Current literature highlights where we can do things better, avoid unnecessary testing and treatment, and better look at the big picture

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Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Better value is needed but sometimes hard to find or define. Current literature highlights where we can do things better, avoid unnecessary testing and treatment, and better look at the big picture.

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Better value is needed but sometimes hard to find or define. Current literature highlights where we can do things better, avoid unnecessary testing and treatment, and better look at the big picture.

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

The top 4 CDEI questions by physicians

Better value is needed but sometimes hard to find or define. Current literature highlights where we can do things better, avoid unnecessary testing and treatment, and better look at the big picture.

Medicine beyond the diseases we treat – workflow, economics and medical politics

Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Focus this month on drafts and draughts, sepsis, flu, and a case of when it’s better not to treat

Our commitment to value includes recognizing and reducing waste – medical recycling if you will – here are some of the recent papers addressing this.

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Recent research and updates about the various conditions and illnesses we diagnose and treat

Please View Additional Interviews with Dr. Eric Koch and Dr. Erik Diringer

The trap – taking care of too many patients and how everything goes wrong from there.

Articles about diabetes and end of life care, office efficiency and readmissions – among others

POA in the world of Documentation Integrity and Coding denotes something different

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Power Point review prepared by Dr. Lee Ruotsi explaining current state of the art with respect to pressure sore prevention and documentation

I THOUGHT POA stood for Power of Attorney… Right????

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] Politicoeconomic Articles – HHS banning CDC from using selected words for political reasons – Trump’s Mental Health as a Public Safety Concern – Why the US pays so much for health care – high prices – You’re Sick – Whose Fault is That Work Flow Articles – A […]

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] – Declining blood pressures in the 20 years before death commentary – Less is More – not that simple – Tackling Low-Value Care_ A New “Top Five” for Purchaser Action – The other big drug problem_ Older people taking too many pills – Unexpected negative consequences of Medicare […]

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] – 2016 Health Care Spending – Business case for investing in physician well-being – Date Night with Your EHR – Texting medical orders unsafe and banned – Internists Say Tax Legislation Could Harm Health Care for Millions of Americans – Patient satisfacton after denying patient requests – Public […]

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] 2017 BP Guidelines – JAMA Editorial Diuretic Use in Heart Failure Early Oral Anticoagulation in Afib May Protect Against Dementia Immunotherapy for Unresectable Lung Cancer Perioperative Aspirin – Editorial [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] PoliticoEconomic Articles – Hurricane Damage To Manufacturers In Puerto Rico Affects Mainland Hospitals, Too – Medicare for All – Primary Care Spending Rate – The Impending Death of PCMH – CPC+ and Saving Primary Care Work Flow Articles – Low Rates of Communication Between Inpatient, Primary Care Teams […]

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Comment recently overheard from an external auditor reading Catholic Health Medical Records

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– Cost-Effectiveness of Intensive Versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control – Measuring the Cost of Quality Measurement. A Missing Link in Quality Strategy – Screening with Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Reduces Mortality Risk, Reanalysis Concludes – Managed Care Companies Should Publish Lessons Learned From Studying Their Own Big Data – Thrombophilia Testing in Provoked Venous Thromboembolism

– How Donald Trump is Driving Up Health Insurance Premiums – Hospitals’ Use of Contract Doctors Soars Amid Physician Shortage

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] Each month the Quality Committee reviews a number of Peer Review issues from each of our 5 sites. The focus of this process is education and improvement, not citing individuals as in the old days. Along those lines we have established an ever-expanding library of “Precedents”. Once an […]

Here’s how the best hospitalists deal efficiently with low risk chest pain patients – and there are a lot of them!

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid” header_text_color=”#1c223a”] Department of Medicine [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_position_1=”top_left” background_repeat_1=”no-repeat” background_position_2=”top_left” background_repeat_2=”no-repeat” background_position_3=”top_left” background_repeat_3=”no-repeat” background_position_4=”top_left” background_repeat_4=”no-repeat” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] Department of Medicine Edward Stehlik, MD, MACP Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Kenmore Mercy Hospital 716-123-4567 email@chsbuffalo.org [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.62″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|on”] […]

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