Hospitalist physician vs family practitioner

Differences between hospitalist physician and family practitioner duties and responsibilities

Hospitalist physician example responsibilities.

• Conduct vendor assessments with variety of EMR vendors to assure adherence with CMS standards.
• Maintain CRM database of referring physicians, including their demographics, referral patterns and other relevant information.
• Participate in a pilot program that utilize physician assistants to assist physicians with covering unassign patients on the hospital wards.
• Perform EKG, monitoring & interpretation of EKG.
• Coordinate with marketing, sales and CME departments to build cohesive community physician outreach program.
• Organize and schedule physician to physician meetings, lunch and learn events, and CME programs.
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Family practitioner example responsibilities.

• Manage family health problems, examine patients, perform physical examination.
• Manage conditions including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hypothyroidism, asthma, and GERD.
• Provide examination, testing, diagnosis, treatment, referral and follow- up care for newborn through geriatrics.
• Provide residential care and emergency medical treatment to incapacitate elderly patients
• Operate electrocardiogram equipment to administer diagnostic testing (EKG).
• Ensure patient and family understanding of diagnosis treatment and all accompanying relevant information.
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