By Gusty Thursday, 23 February 2012 Good Health and WHERE TO BEGIN? Figuring Out What You Don't Even Know That You Don't Know?. Elvonda It is pretty easy to feel comfortable with what we know. It is equally comfortable (especially in an insatiably curious person) to be comfor...
By Gusty Monday, 20 February 2012 Good Health and ASSESSING RISK AND STILL PROMOTING HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. Elvonda In Medicine, we are taught to assess risk. To identify factors that make a condition more or less likely. It is akin to a detective novel. U...
By Gusty Sunday, 19 February 2012 Clayton Christensen clinical decision rules Direct Access legislation disruptive innovation family practice physicians physical therapists Good Health and "Stealing" Patients from Physicians, Part 1 of 3. Elvonda Right now in America, most physical therapists accept referrals from physicians for conditions like simple ankle sprains and lower back inju...
By Gusty Friday, 17 February 2012 EMR functional outcome hl7 Medicare audit medicare compliance narrative note patient satisfaction physical therapists Good Health and What's So Bad about Physical Therapy Documentation?. Elvonda I subscribe to a number of web feeds - some good, some bad. I recieved the following e-mail the other day. It is a Medicare Compliance advic...
By Gusty Wednesday, 15 February 2012 American Physical Therapy Association APTA EHR Electronic Health Records Good Health and New Electronic Health Records Toolkit available from the APTA. Elvonda An Electronic Health Records (EHR) adoption toolkit is now available at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) website. Member lo...
By Gusty Monday, 13 February 2012 clinical prediction rules physical therapists screening for pathology treatment based classification Good Health and Pathology Screening by Physical Therapists. Elvonda Here are the clinical prediction rules I routinely use in the clinic. They are included as a separate chapter in my new book Bulletproof Exp...
By Gusty Wednesday, 8 February 2012 American Physical Therapy Association APTA EvidenceinMotion.com outpatient physical therapy physical therpists private practice PTManager.com Good Health and Why Outpatient Physical Therapy Will Survive and Thrive. Elvonda This bears repeating... The following is a response to a comment thread on Peter Kovacek's PTManager.com . You need a username and pass...