Summary: This month in our issue, we examine issues surrounding system-wide improvement in healthcare and the fiscal challenges of healthcare reform. Dr. Rick Hilger tells why he thinks a population-health approach is the best hope for improving the system and why eliminating waste may yield ways to reduce healthcare spending. Dr. Joshua Lenchus talks about how the administrative tasks of healthcare reform will impact hospitalists’ daily workflow and workload. Elsewhere in this issue, we feature a special report on the impact Obamacare will have on hospitals and hospital medicine, review changes to ABIM’s Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine MOC program, and examine the two-midnight rule on hospital admissions for Medicare patients.
