Richard Quinn is an award-winning journalist with 15 years’ experience. He has worked at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and currently is managing editor for a leading commercial real estate publication. His freelance work has appeared in The Jewish State, The Hospitalist, The Rheumatologist, ACEP Now, and ENT Today. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three cats.
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Meet the two newest SHM board members
Pediatric hospitalist Kris Rehm, MD, SFHM, and perioperative specialist Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM, will bring their expertise to bear on the...
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Grassroots policymaking demands that hospitalists team up
LAS VEGAS – The potential repeal of ACA insurance reforms have taken center stage in the media, but SHM leaders urged hospitalists to focus more...
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Practice management skills more relevant than ever
LAS VEGAS – Welcome to managing a practice, circa 2017. The day-to-day doings of an HM group – recruiting, retention, compensation, scheduling and...
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HM17 plenaries: Hospital medicine leading health care shift to value, quality
LAS VEGAS – The three plenary speakers at HM17 said the destination that U.S. health care is traveling is pretty clear: a system that increasingly...
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RIV spotlights HM-focused research in real-time
LAS VEGAS – SHM’s annual Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes poster competition has exploded in popularity over the past few years.
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Hospitalists share strategies to secure, excel at jobs
LAS VEGAS – Strategies of upward mobility can apply whether hospitalists are chasing their first job or their fifth.
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Hospitalists’ EMR frustrations continue: SHM report
LAS VEGAS – Hospitalists say they are stymied and frustrated by continuing issues of interoperability, functionality, and access related to their...
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Highlights of Day 4
Sometimes the final day of a convention is nothing more than the “getaway day.” But not at HM17.
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Hope and change
Dr. Robert Wachter, the dean of hospital medicine, will give his traditional last plenary address of the meeting on Thursday.
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Conway says health care payment, quality reform to continue
Health care will continue its trajectory to higher value, lower costs, and improved quality for patients, keynote speaker Dr. Patrick Conway said...
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From idea to abstract, RIV posters highlight novel thinking
LAS VEGAS – Always-popular abstract competition positions hospitalists as national leaders.
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Systems engineering in the hospital
Systems-engineering expert James Benneyan, PhD, doesn’t want hospitalists to look at poorly working processes in their institutions and think, “I...
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On Tap Wednesday
SHM Awards of Excellence and a keynote speech on the transformation of health care take center stage.
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Telehospitalists can expand capability, capacity
“We are hearing so much about a need for an alternative care model, [and] the virtual-care model is incredibly relevant in today’s environment,”...
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DeSalvo: HM needs holistic approach to health care
LAS VEGAS – The job must evolve to include a focus on such social issues as economic stability, neighborhood and physical environment, and...