Practical resources for hospitalist decisions.

Explore questions and tools for evaluating hospitalist performance, professional revenue, operating agreements, and AI opportunities. Each resource connects an executive question to information worth examining before a decision.

Explore the decision facing your program

Is our hospitalist program performing as it should?

Understand how staffing, workload, clinical operations, and program economics fit together. Start with Hospitalist Performance 360.

Evaluate Program Performance

Are we capturing the professional revenue the program earns?

Examine the path from completed encounters to charges, supportable coding, claims, and collections. Start with a Revenue Integrity Assessment.

Review Revenue Integrity

Is our operating model still the right choice?

Compare direct employment, outsourcing, contract renewal, and staffing alternatives using consistent requirements and economics.

Evaluate Operating Options

Where can AI help hospital medicine?

Evaluate workflow fit, data readiness, practical value, governance, and implementation requirements before committing to a product or pilot.

Explore AI Opportunities

From the Salient MD archive

SHM Gulf States Conference Presentation: Value-Based PurchasingAugust 16, 2023
Hospitalist Guide to Thriving in a Hospital WorldAugust 24, 2022
Hospitalists and Managing Inpatient StaysJanuary 4, 2022
Hospitalist Programs and the Revenue CycleApril 12, 2019
Hospitalists and Mid-Level ProvidersNovember 7, 2018
Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Hospitalist TrendsJuly 11, 2018
The Demand for HospitalistsApril 6, 2018
Hospitalist Programs: Productivity and the Law of Diminishing ReturnsFebruary 19, 2018
Hospital Financial Support of Hospitalist ProgramsDecember 5, 2017
The Role Hospitalists Play in Reducing Patient ReadmissionsMay 8, 2017
Bedside Manner in the Digital Age - Hospitalists Make a DifferenceApril 18, 2017
Healthcare Tech - Top Apps to Make A Hospitalist's Workday EasierApril 6, 2017
The Advantages of Starting a Hospitalist ProgramMarch 12, 2017
What Is a Hospitalist?March 6, 2017
The Hospitalist Patient Navigation® ModelSeptember 19, 2016
Hospitalists and the Decline of Comprehensive CareAugust 24, 2016
The Hospitalist Value ParadoxMay 4, 2016
Performance MetricsFebruary 11, 2016