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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 14, 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 12, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Yesterday I discussed the challenges of ICD-10 coding late effects of radiation. Last week I showed you the axillae of a lady after breast cancer who had radiation changes and a non-healing wound. Her transcutaneous oximetry values on leads 1 and 3 were 8mmHg and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 11, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
ICD-10 has completely consumed my time in the past few weeks. Let’s talk straight about how this is going to work for wound care and hyperbaric medicine. There are 2 fundamental ways coding has ALWAYS worked, even with ICD-9. Option #1: The doctor knows the codes...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 5, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
This is the axillae of a woman who had breast cancer a year ago and underwent radiation to the axillae after a lymph node biopsy. She developed a seroma which was drained and then became infected. She has a large wound about the size of an orange that you can’t see...
