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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
In 2011, we published a paper entitled, “Why is it hard to do the right thing in wound care?” in which we documented that only 17% of venous ulcers were treated with adequate compression every time they were seen at a wound center. Those statistics were...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Attention Hyperbaric Medicine Colleagues, especially those in New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois! Please read the important note below from UHMS Executive Director, John Peters. Dear Hyperbaric Medicine Practitioner, The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 31, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
ALERT! “Targeted” Pre-payment review of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to occur in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska The Medicare Administrative Carrier “WPS” has announced a Targeted Medical Review (TMR) of 100 claims for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the states of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 17, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
If you haven’t yet considered subscribing to the Email Updates from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, then it’s time you did! In their latest update (#4): If you are the victim of ransomware or have cyber threat...
