by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
You have until March 2018 to submit data. If you are subject to MIPS and do nothing, you will lose 4% of your Medicare Part B payments (although you will not experience this penalty until 2019). Click on the website below and enter your National Provider Identifier...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 12, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Wow! This is a great article from Janet Wolfson PT, CLWT, CWS, CLT-LANA as published on April 26, 2017 by Wound Source. I was recently listening to one of my favorite news sources, NPR, enjoying an interview with James E. Ryan, the author of “Wait, What?...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 11, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
May is mental health awareness month. Everyone reading this blog has been personally affected by a mental health issue either because they have struggled personally or an immediate family member has been affected. An April JAMA article references a new World Health...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 10, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
This is another installment of the Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame. You may be getting tired of these cases, but since I see at least one a month, I think I will just keep adding to the Hall of Shame. This woman is in her late 80’s and has moderate dementia....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 3, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
This is another installment in my “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame” The photo is a 50ish woman with diabetes and a history of smoking. A right femoral popliteal bypass was performed 3 months earlier. Unfortunately she developed a graft infection...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 26, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
Here is another installment in my “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame.” This is an alert woman in her 90’s who still lives alone. She has had a circumferential leg ulcer for 4 years and chronic pain. She has been to a series of physicians and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 19, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
I have decided to start a series called the “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame.” Maybe if we keep talking about these cases we can change the way these patients are treated so they are diagnosed before it is too late. This is a 60ish year old...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 18, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
I have been discussing the “2016 Prior Year Benchmarks” report for all the quality measures included in the 2016 Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRUR)....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 12, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
The 2016 “Prior Year Benchmarks” report is out for measures included in the 2016 “Quality and Resource Use Reports” (QRUR). There is HUGE news for wound care and hyperbaric medicine but no one has talked about it yet. THIS IS BIG....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 22, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
A new advanced wound care treatment? This patient’s neighbor had a salve made from her placenta for him to use on his non healing wounds. His wounds are pretty bad and he is nearly out now. It will take her awhile to make another placenta. I am not sure what...
