by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 8, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Today, not one but 2 different companies talked to me about their new anti-biofilm treatment. Their mechanisms of action are entirely different. The only things they have in common are that they are both colorless and applied topically. Both companies (who had no...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 4, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Good morning and Happy Friday! Friday’s on the blog are reserved for “Ask the Physician Friday.” If you have any questions for me please feel free to leave them in the comments below, ask on Twitter (@carolinefifemd), or on Facebook (@Woodlands Wound Physicians). I...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 2, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
What is this unusual skin eruption? Is it some kind of infestation? No, it’s a wrongly applied NPWT dressing. The home nurse applied the VAC sponge right over the patient’s skin. Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 1, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Here’s some straight talk on clinical pathways. We’ve all gotten the message on “evidence based” medicine by which payers use data, primarily from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to decide what treatments they will cover. I’ve had some concerns about that since...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 28, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Good morning and Happy Friday! Friday’s on the blog are reserved for “Ask the Physician Friday.” If you have any questions for me please feel free to leave them in the comments below, ask on Twitter (@carolinefifemd), or on Facebook (@Woodlands Wound Physicians). I...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 26, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Together with John C. Rasmussen, PhD., Melissa B. Aldrich, PhD., Renie Guilliod, MD, Thomas F. O’Donnell Jr., MD, and Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, PhD., we have published a new paper open access via ScienceDirect. “Near-infrared fluorescence lymphatic imaging in...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 25, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Last week I spent a lot of time trying to explain the ICD-10 code for “late effects of radiation” and why it was “right” even thought it seems wrong because it is in “injury and poisoning” code. That gets me to the straight talk topic of “who decides what the right...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 21, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Good morning and Happy Friday! Friday’s on the blog are reserved for “Ask the Physician Friday.” If you have any questions for me please feel free to leave them in the comments below, ask on Twitter (@carolinefifemd), or on Facebook (@Woodlands Wound Physicians). I...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 19, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Last week I showed you the abnormally low transcutaneous oximetry of a woman after radiation to the axillae with single digit TCOM values. With oxygen breathing, the two really low values improve but not up to normal like the one that is over 200 mmHg. I did an oxygen...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 18, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Last week I mentioned ICD-10 so I thought it might be interesting to discuss why using the right “words” in the chart, to get a coder to code correctly for HBOT, is going to be very tricky. I’m going to try to explain this for “late effects of radiation” but it IS...
