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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition

Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For hospitals, this means investing in cutting-edge medical interventions and partnerships that help them transition to the modern best-practice of dedicated ICU management. Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them.

Management

Management Hospital Telemedicine Board-Certified

Beware the bait-and-switch when it comes to HM program contracts

Sound Physicians

APRIL 28, 2025

While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. We take on significant financial risk across temp labor, clinical performance, clinician quality, payer collection, and fluctuation in volume.

IT

IT Hospital Telemedicine Clinic

ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

While we primarily partner with our own Sound specialty teams , we also work independently with employed and other outsourced clinical teams. With time, the partnership between tele-intensivists and hospitalists brings more confidence and allows for more patients — and patients with higher-acuity needs — to receive care locally.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Community Hospital Patients

Growing together: How Sound creates a culture of leadership

Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It is, by design, built into the ways we educate, train, and support our clinical leadership. Associate medical directors Since every Sound program is uniquely designed to best suit their hospital partner’s needs, one medical director may not be enough to manage the practice , day – to- day.

Hospital

Hospital Telemedicine Management Clinic

Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Characteristics, Clinical Care, and Disposition Barriers for Mental Health Patients Boarding in the Emergency Department. This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about what we should consider when boarding children in the ED for mental health reasons. PMID: 32393605.

Mental Health

Mental Health Management Patient-Centered Illness

Agitation Podcast Series Episode 4: Safe prehospital transport of the agitated child

PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

NASEMSO: Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical service practitioners. This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about what prehospital providers should do to get these agitated children safely to the ED.

Transportation

Transportation Patient-Centered Management Finance

A Final LDT Rule in April!? Will FDA be prepared?

FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Mullen — With comments due on the proposed LDT rule last week, FDA wasted no time updating the Unified Agenda to indicate that a final rule may be published in April ( here ). We take this date with a grain of salt given the frequency with which these dates are missed and given the volume of comments filed. (It

IT

IT Medical Patient-Centered Provider

Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

This can also happen in a reverse scenario where the practice must turn to outsourcing as their backup plan because their staff is unqualified to manage an in-house billing program.) Those who pave new roads and create new paths find the connections between what others have done and what works in their practices.

Management

Management Patient-Centered Appointment Patients

FDA’s New Draft Guidance on 510(k) Implant Devices: What You Need to Know

FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Non-Clinical Recommendations The draft guidance highlights non-clinical review areas that are generally relevant across 510(k) Implants and offers recommendations for performance data to include in a 510(k) submission. We find that this information is noteworthy for manufacturers to consider.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Engineering Clinic Patients

The FDA PDUFA VII Goals Letter (FY 2023-2027): A Review of Our Top 10 Commitments

FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

FDA will discuss the goals letter and field public comments, on September 28, 2021 (announcement here ), as well as a separate workshop on meetings management practices, which is to be held by July 30, 2024. requesting records in lieu of an inspection, use of information shared by trusted foreign regulatory partners).

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Manufacturing Clinic Provider

How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. They presented a rapid clinical update Webinar in May 2025 hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine. ” That is why, she added, anti-obesity medications are such an important strategy in long-term management. Nor should they be.

Hospital

Hospital Management Diabetes Patients

AI May Make Your Device More Efficient, but Be Prepared to Spend More Time on Design Documentation

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert In early January, FDA released a draft guidance document titled Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations (Draft AI Guidance). User Interface Software Description Section VI.B test data should not be cleaned).

Management

Management Provider Specialization Clinic

Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And which journal again? Ken Covinsky: JAMA Network Open. Eric: JAMA Network Open. Kenny Lam: Yeah, yeah. JAMA Network Open. Eric: But before we do, we have a song request. Luckily, it’s not going to go to Ken Covinsky, because he would do a Chicago Cubs song. Alex: Kenny Lamb. Eric: Kenny, do you have a song request? Kenny Lam: Yeah.

Community

Community IT Mental Health Medical

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience. Thanks, Bruce.

Hospital

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT

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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

AI May Make Your Device More Efficient, but Be Prepared to Spend More Time on Design Documentation

Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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