Comments on: SuperDocs and Quality Talks: Notes from the Annual Meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/04/13/superdocs-and-quality-talks-notes-from-the-annual-meeting-of-the-society-of-hospital-medicine/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: obatradanglambungtradisional https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/04/13/superdocs-and-quality-talks-notes-from-the-annual-meeting-of-the-society-of-hospital-medicine/#comment-728750 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 02:33:08 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=72425#comment-728750 I should have realized that this Elton John outfit was sized for a lanky teenager headed for a costume party, not a 56-year old man with a paunch. But after the costume arrived, it seemed too late to turn back.

]]> By: William Palmer MD https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/04/13/superdocs-and-quality-talks-notes-from-the-annual-meeting-of-the-society-of-hospital-medicine/#comment-565637 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 04:59:59 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=72425#comment-565637 1. I think coordinated care means that one provider knows what the others are doing. How do you reconcile the medical home concept–which seems the epitome of coordinated care– with the hospitalists’ movement which amputates the support from the LMD?…especially now that you guys are so busy?

2. How are you guys paid in states that forbid the corporate practice of medicine? Is IPC akin to Permanente? I.e. Doctor owned?

3. In states where you are paid by the hospital, are you concerned about the purity of your patient agency? A book on the subject showing agency conflict or a scandal could easily tear the specialty asunder could it not? You recall “As Good As It Gets” and the disaster it caused with the HMOs?

4. Don’t you believe that the occasion will arise wherein you will have to argue with the hospital that your patient needs a very expensive intervention? E.g an extra corporeal membrane oxygenator or a course of Sovaldi. Will you be less of an agent for the patient because of your position with the hospital?

]]> By: John Ballard https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/04/13/superdocs-and-quality-talks-notes-from-the-annual-meeting-of-the-society-of-hospital-medicine/#comment-563139 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 01:54:02 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=72425#comment-563139 This is the most encouraging post I have read at THCB for a long time. Many thanks.
==> And an extra a plug for that memorable performance.
Readers, take a few minutes to enjoy this.
http://youtu.be/1-f6PQABqD0

]]> By: Datoid https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/04/13/superdocs-and-quality-talks-notes-from-the-annual-meeting-of-the-society-of-hospital-medicine/#comment-563055 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:21:54 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=72425#comment-563055 It seems to me that in many ways the designers of the ACA are putting into practice a series of tricks (focus on quality + patient safety, tracking patients as they move through the system new divisions of labor,) that the hospitalist movement pioneered. Ironically, that early success means that hospitalist programs will now face competitors who are doing many of the same things.

How can hospitalist programs show their value in the face of these new competitors?

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