by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 7, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
The drug industry, patients and consumers are urging the FDA to find better ways to integrate the patient perspective in drug development, as well as a way to use “real world” data in drug development. It will be interesting to see how the FDA reacts to the growing...
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 31, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
I mentioned a “pay for performance” model that CMS is trying out for Home Health Agencies. Well, an AHRQ study published in the British Medical Journal explored ways in which data were collected and used in Nursing Homes as a result of participation in a...
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 24, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
In July, CMS announced a proposed new model of funding for home healthcare that will affect the delivery of wound care provided by home nursing. The model, included in the CY 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule, updates payments and requirements...
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...
