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. | Jul 8, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
I keep reading articles in which people discuss “quality measures in the outpatient wound center” as if they actually existed. I thought I’d post the quality measures that can currently be reported from an outpatient clinic. Since nearly all of them...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 2, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
There’s a new article out published open source (you can download it free) about the “DIME” approach to wound management (Debridement/devitalized tissue, Infection or inflammation, Moisture balance, and wound Edge preparation/wound depth) in relation...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 17, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
I’ve previously posted information about the way that Congress got out of the annual “Doc Fix” problem with new legislation that restructures physician payment based on a variety of quality programs. Recently, Medicare trustees have warned that by 2048 physician pay...
