Dr. Whitcomb is chief medical officer of Remedy Partners. He is co-founder and past president of SHM. E-mail him at [email protected].
Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Hospitalists Must Grin and Bear the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Program
Developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) program is as much about documentation as it...
Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Hospital Readmissions Penalties Start Now
Hospitals must meet October 1st deadline for complying with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hospital Readmission Reduction...
Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Inflexible, Big-Box EHRs Endanger the QI Movement
The challenges current EHRs present to QI efforts and what features EHRs need to incorporate to better serve the needs of patients and clinicians...
Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Spotlight on Medical Necessity
Patients, hospitalists caught in crosshairs of the observation status conundrum.
Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Staying ... and Paying
CMS' chief medical officer sheds some light on confusing and aggravating Medicare issue.
News
Win Whitcomb: A New Quality Paradigm
Cost Is the New Quality; Waste Is the New Cost
News
Win Whitcomb: Hospitalists, PCPs, and Population Health
Game on with SHM’s Complex Medically Ill Project
News
WIN WHITCOMB: CMS Core Measures Program a Win-Win for Hospitalists
Looking back, many of us saw the huge opportunity created by the CMS core measures a decade ago. A good number of core measures recently have been...
News
Career Satisfaction Toolkit
An interim report from the SHM Career Satisfaction Task Force
News
Physician Pay-for-Performance Comes to the Hospital
In January 2004, the Mercy Inpatient Medicine Service embarked on a quality-based incentive program, or “pay-for-performance.” This was spurred on...