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  • SNF Telemedicine: reducing readmissions through 24/7 support

    | Clinical Innovation, Telemedicine

    Originally published in HealthTech Magazine With an aging population and health care payers’ increasing focus on the quality and cost of post-acute care pressuring Skilled […]

  • Clinicians Prepare for COVID-19

    | Thought Leadership

    COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world and throughout the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) now believes the virus will likely reach pandemic […]

  • Actionable Observations on Observation

    | Leadership

    Observation services represent the halfway point between emergency department treatment and full inpatient admission or discharge. The challenge of deciding whether to admit a patient […]

  • Improving End of Life Care in the ICU

    | Performance

    One in five people who die in the United States admit to an ICU before their death, according to a recent study published in the […]

  • A Love Story: From Residency to Professional Practice

    | Culture, Leadership

    A story by Zoheb Shaikh, MD, Internal Medicine, and Bahishta Yaqubi, MD, Internal Medicine, Sound Physicians Love surfaces in unexpected places and at unexpected times. […]

  • Hospitalists Take “Triple Aim”

    | Thought Leadership

    “Triple Aim” refers to the pursuit of improving patient care, the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care. Hospital medicine […]

  • A Chief Hospitalist’s Perspective of Coronavirus in the U.S.

    | Performance

    Located in Washington State, local to the first diagnosed case, Chief Hospitalist with Sound Physician, Dr. Farshid Rafatnia, answers critical questions and concerning the Coronavirus.

  • Delirium or Acute Encephalopathy? Clearing up Common Coding Confusion

    | Performance

    Acute encephalopathy is a global cerebral dysfunction in the absence of structural brain disease. Acute Encephalopathy is frequently coded incorrectly as delirium, which does not reflect how truly sick the patient is.

  • Did Anyone Ask Doris? A Lesson in Goals of Care Conversations

    | Performance

    Dr. Charles Charman provides students a lesson on Goals of Care via the Sound Physician House Model.

  • Pneumonia: Take Key Steps to Protect Your Patient from a DRG Downgrade

    | Performance

    Pneumonia miscoding makes it vitally important to follow best practices for documentation with specific information describing the severity of the illness to support the correct DRG.

  • Wearable Health Devices are Changing How We Care

    | Clinical Innovation

    According to Business Insider, wearable technology use has tripled in the last four years. More than 80% of consumers are using devices to be more health-conscious. […]

  • Burnout Affects More Than Just the Physician

    | Culture, Leadership

    With nearly 400 physician suicides annually in the US, physician burnout is a well-documented issue that’s now deemed a public health crisis. In a 2019 Medscape […]

  • Rising Trends of the Nurse Practitioner

    | Clinical Innovation

    we sat down with Sound Physicians’ Tracy Cardin, Vice President, Advanced Practice Providers, to ask her about trending Nurse Practioner issues that are helping shape their contributions and roles.

  • Celebrating our Veterans

    | Culture, Leadership

    Veterans Day is a day to remember those who died in service to our country and to recognize those men and women who serve today. Read stories from our Sound veterans.

  • The Path of Life: End of Life Care in the ICU

    | Performance

    Instead of attempting to prevent inevitable outcomes, how do physicians integrate patient values into their goals of care?

  • Shedding Light on “Observation”

    | Policy

    Once Medicare began paying by the diagnosis, it didn’t take long for payers to question proper DRG payments. Out of this, the observation stay was born.

  • Advanced Practice Providers and Hospital Medicine: The Recipe for Success

    | Performance

    Healthcare will face a shortage of more than 100,000 physicians by 2032. As this shortage grows APPs will help maximize patient outcomes and efficiency.

  • Identifying and Documenting Functional Quadriplegia

    | Performance

    While Functional Quadriplegia has been around for quite some time, it is not documented often enough to capture the level of care that is provided in the acute care hospital setting.

  • Acute Tubular Necrosis: Recognizing and Documenting the Severity of Illness

    | Performance

    Acute Tubular Necrosis (ATN) is common in patients, yet despite the importance of documentation if clinically valid, it is not frequently documented.

  • Dr. Erin Watson live-tweeting at FemInEm FIX’19 #SoundAtFIX19

    | Culture, Leadership

    Dr. Erin Watson is an emergency medicine doctor with Sound Physicians in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with the Sound Emergency Medicine recruiting team, Dr. Watson will […]