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The Wound Care Clinician’s Podiatric Glossary

Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this resource glossary of podiatry-related terms and conditions.

Patient Handout: Offloading & Podiatric Care

Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this informative clinical guide to review and pass along to their patients for purposes of assisting in their education.

Endovascular Health 101 for the Outpatient Wound Clinic

Appropriate endovascular care can begin in the wound center with proper assessment and testing for vascular comorbidities.

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  1. Endovascular Health 101 for the Outpatient Wound Clinic
    Appropriate endovascular care can begin in the wound center with proper assessment and testing for vascular comorbidities. This article discusses current guidance, examines emerging trends, and offers a primer on helpful jargon commonly used when communicating with interventionists.    Not surprisingly, the ever-increasing... | Full Article
    Friday, August 3, 2018 - 12:27 | 2,662 reads
  2. From the Editor: Are The Walls Closing In On Wound Care?
    My house has withstood five hurricanes and a flood event of Biblical proportions, but has been nearly destroyed twice by that most unpredictable of forces — indoor plumbing. I really didn’t think the problem was all that bad this time, although I was putting buckets underneath light fixtures to catch the water and it was a... | Full Article
    Monday, August 6, 2018 - 10:37 | 550 reads
  3. Business Briefs: When Wound Care Marketing & Reimbursement Payments Collide
    Bad business can be worse than no business when it comes to the outpatient wound care clinic. This article discusses several problematic marketing scenarios that have caused reimbursement denials and/or repayments. Solutions are also offered.  Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP and the... | Full Article
    Monday, August 6, 2018 - 11:20 | 434 reads
  4. Legal Counsel: The Federal False Claims Act & the Ongoing Fight Against Healthcare Fraud
    The False Claims Act (FCA) is one of the United States government’s most powerful weapons to combat the perpetration of fraud against federal programs. While the FCA is applicable to claims submitted for payment by any type of government contractor, it has been widely used in the healthcare industry. Also referred to as... | Full Article
    Friday, August 3, 2018 - 12:45 | 346 reads
  5. Amniotic Membrane Allografts in the Outpatient Wound Clinic: Current Practice Guidelines & Modalities
    Wound care is a challenging and ever-changing field of medicine. Chronic wounds in particular are responsible for a large portion of time, effort, and cost in the medical community. A newly released economic evaluation of the impact, cost, and Medicare policy implications of nonhealing wounds determined that almost 15% of... | Full Article
    Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 14:43 | 6,541 reads
  6. Let's Be Frank: Integrating Advanced Therapy Products into Your Wound Clinic Business Model
    Regenerative medicine is just one example of the many advanced modalities available to today’s product formularies. But how do we go about making sure our clinical and business decisions remain on profitable parallel paths? For the majority of professionals who choose to enter healthcare, the intention is to serve others... | Full Article
    Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 15:22 | 921 reads
  7. The Role of Stem Cells in Wound Healing: An Overview
    The evolution of stem cells in the chronic wound regimen has taken a very circuitous path, so to speak. This article will briefly describe some of the different types of stem cells and how they may be utilized as therapeutic modalities in healthcare, including specifically in wound care.   TYPES OF STEM CELLS When we talk... | Full Article
    Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 14:55 | 1,015 reads

Product and Industry News

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TWC Blogs

Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders Advocacy Update Q2 2018

Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders 2Q 2018

CMS "Comment Season" Heats Up 

"Comment season" is heating up. As summer temperatures rise, we at the Alliance are busy reviewing and addressing the FY2019 prospective payment system updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) that can have impacts large and small across the wound care space.

7/19/2018
Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders Advocacy Update

Alliance Educates PDAC & DMEMAC via a "Show & Tell" Seminar Enabling Staff to See/Touch/Feel Key Wound Care Products

4/19/2018
Rise of the Cyber Criminal in 2018: HIPAA Security Does Not Stop With Compliance

Reports of cyber attacks continue to be prevalent. However, healthcare providers may be unaware of a few important facts: 

  1. Healthcare, as an industry, sees more data breaches than any other.1
  2. Criminal attacks are the leading cause of data breaches in healthcare. 
  3. Data breaches in healthcare are consistently high in terms of volume, frequency, impact, and cost.2

Consider some high-profile cases in which cyber criminals have placed certain healthcare organizations in the news:

1/5/2018
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Business Briefs

Business Briefs: When Wound Care Marketing & Reimbursement Payments Collide
Bad business can be worse than no business when it comes to the outpatient wound care clinic. This article discusses several... Full Article
Business Briefs: When Should You Bill for an E&M or Clinic Visit and a Procedure on the Same Day?
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to... Full Article
Business Briefs: Test Your Knowledge of “Incident To” & “Direct Supervision”
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to... Full Article
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History of Wound Care

History of Wound Care: A Solution to Sepsis: The Carrel-Dakin Method
World War I (1914-18; WWI), aka the “Great War,” brought unimaginable destruction to the world. Whether it was economic... Full Article
History of Wound Care: The Wound Care Nurse’s Journey Part 1: The Civil War
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series on the evolution of the wound care nurse. This series will continue... Full Article
History of Wound Care: The Wound Care Nurse’s Journey Part 1: The Civil War
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series on the evolution of the wound care nurse. This series will continue... Full Article
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Featured Department

Providing the Algorithm for Wound & Podiatric Care at Ocean County Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates
Toms River, NJ —As the longest highway in the state of New Jersey, the Garden State Parkway is truly a destination route... Full Article
Facility in Focus: Baptist Beaches Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
Jacksonville Beach, FL – Approximately 6.7 million people in the United States are living with chronic wounds, and that... Full Article
Facility in Focus: Helping Patients ‘Navigate’ Healthcare’s Great Transition at Baptist Health System
San Antonio — This country’s current healthcare transition from volume-based care to a system predicated on value and... Full Article
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HIPAA Privacy & Security

HIPAA Privacy & Security: Conducting Your HIPAA-Required Security Risk Assessment
A company based in the state of Pennsylvania that develops wireless technology that’s used to assist physicians in the care... Full Article
HIPAA Privacy & Security Compliance: The Dirty Little Secret About Medical Device Security
What are the rules regarding IMD safety? That all depends on whom you ask.    Imagine being a patient and having to worry... Full Article
Should Healthcare Providers 'Google' Their Patients?
The digital age in which we all live in and work in brings us unique opportunities from both a personal and professional... Full Article
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Let’s Be Frank

Let's Be Frank: Integrating Advanced Therapy Products into Your Wound Clinic Business Model
Regenerative medicine is just one example of the many advanced modalities available to today’s product formularies. But how... Full Article
Let's Be Frank: How to Save Your Wound Clinic From Failure
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford  Successfully operating an... Full Article
Let's Be Frank: Seeking Advice Can Be The Foundation of Optimal Wound Care
In this month’s column, Frank discusses chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that’s cited as a commonly encountered... Full Article
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From The Editor

From the Editor: Are The Walls Closing In On Wound Care?
My house has withstood five hurricanes and a flood event of Biblical proportions, but has been nearly destroyed twice by... Full Article
From the Editor: Musings From The UHMS Meeting
It was almost exactly 20 years ago — during the summer of 1998 — that I took over as president of the Undersea &... Full Article
From The Editor: Tugboats, Radios, & Our Professional Obligation to Registries
Chicago, IL — Ernest A. Codman, MD, FACS, became a surgeon at the turn of the 20th century and spent his life on a crusade... Full Article
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