by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 30, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
The rain has stopped, and we can see blue sky. The sun just came out. What a beautiful sight! Home, office and hospital made it through, but we are not celebrating with so much heartbreak everywhere. Unfortunately, there are new areas of flooding, new street closures,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 29, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Update from Texas: 8/29/17 It is still raining. Estimates for this area are about 25 inches since Friday but the more important figure is the geographic territory over which the rain has fallen. In 2001 with Allison, the Medical center got over 30 inches in 24 hours,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 28, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
As reported on the news, the southern region of Texas is experiencing perhaps the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history. Houston has been inundated with water. Water now covers an area roughly the size of Lake Michigan, some of it ten feet deep. By...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 24, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing
What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. Nutrition support and correction of nutritional deficiencies is critical to wound healing. Arginine, a conditionally essential amino acid,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 22, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Quality Payment Program
What you put IN the patient may be as important as what you put ON them I have been focusing more on nutrition with my patients. It’s one of those things we know we are supposed to address, but often we are not quite sure HOW. Susan Horn and I spent months developing...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 2, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I’m tying threads together about real world evidence, cellular products and the US Wound Registry (USWR). These are threads that the USWR has been weaving for more than a decade. I was reluctant to do this interview with the Kaiser Health reporter (Tayor) whose...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 2, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Shin Radiation Madness
Someone please stop the skin cancer radiation therapy madness! In exactly 12 months I have seen five cases of severe soft tissue radiation injury to the anterior shin from local radiation for skin cancer. I have been able to really help 3 of these patients, using...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 2, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
There are some big threads to tie together. Let’s start with this paper by Dr. Marissa Carter that just became available today via eprint in Wound Repair and Regeneration. It establishes guidelines for the analysis of data from patient registries. It’s...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 29, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I have good news. Two months in a row, the U.S. Wound Registry (USWR) and Intellicure, Inc. had ground breaking papers published in Wound Repair and Regeneration, our field’s top journal. The U.S. government had a “big idea” when it passed...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 28, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Quality Payment Program
I’ve attached a link to a Kaiser Health News article that came out today (June 28) about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) that is less than flattering, and another in the Washington Post printed yesterday by the same author. Some of the battles we face in...
