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Volume 14 Issue 8 - August 2020

Vitamin D: Don’t Overlook the Sunshine Vitamin
Vitamin D
08/05/2020
For patients with wounds, vitamin D can be valuable, as it can promote angiogenesis, can reduce inflammation, and can improve insulin resistance. This author reviews the factors that can put patients at risk for vitamin D deficiency and how...
For patients with wounds, vitamin D can be valuable, as it can promote angiogenesis, can reduce inflammation, and can improve insulin resistance. This author reviews the factors that can put patients at risk for vitamin D deficiency and how...
For patients with wounds,...
08/05/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Are You Ready for the New ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes Effective October 1, 2020?
ICD-10-CM
08/04/2020
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding,...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Introducing Point-of-Care Diagnostic Imaging of Bacteria to Your Wound Care Practice
Diagnostic Imaging
08/04/2020
The identification of bacteria-causing infection in wounds is key to reducing costs and providing optimal wound care. In this article, the author describes the impact that fluorescence imaging has had on his wound care practice and shares...
The identification of bacteria-causing infection in wounds is key to reducing costs and providing optimal wound care. In this article, the author describes the impact that fluorescence imaging has had on his wound care practice and shares...
The identification of...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

When Your Patients Become Active Participants in Their Health Care
Let's Be Frank
08/04/2020
Chronic wounds continue to baffle health care providers, as the required treatment can be quite complex. Or is it that we overlook the basics while working in “silos” that prevent us from seeking the expertise of others who might have more...
Chronic wounds continue to baffle health care providers, as the required treatment can be quite complex. Or is it that we overlook the basics while working in “silos” that prevent us from seeking the expertise of others who might have more...
Chronic wounds continue to...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
08/04/2020
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding,...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
How Our Team Manages Multidisciplinary Collaborative Care
From the Editor
08/04/2020
I am really proud of our wound clinic team and since the theme of this issue is multidisciplinary care, I interviewed them about their role in patient care and their perspective on collaborative practice. Here are the responses by our lead...
I am really proud of our wound clinic team and since the theme of this issue is multidisciplinary care, I interviewed them about their role in patient care and their perspective on collaborative practice. Here are the responses by our lead...
I am really proud of our wound...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic

Insights

When Your Patients Become Active Participants in Their Health Care
Let's Be Frank
08/04/2020
Chronic wounds continue to baffle health care providers, as the required treatment can be quite complex. Or is it that we overlook the basics while working in “silos” that prevent us from seeking the expertise of others who might have more...
Chronic wounds continue to baffle health care providers, as the required treatment can be quite complex. Or is it that we overlook the basics while working in “silos” that prevent us from seeking the expertise of others who might have more...
Chronic wounds continue to...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic

Department

How an Innovative Telewound Module May Aid the Wound Clinic
Telehealth
08/04/2020
A new telewound module can aid patients by facilitating virtual visits. Today’s Wound Clinic recently interviewed Bob Bartlett, the Chief Medical Officer at Swift Medical and a certified physician executive (CPE) with over 30 years of...
A new telewound module can aid patients by facilitating virtual visits. Today’s Wound Clinic recently interviewed Bob Bartlett, the Chief Medical Officer at Swift Medical and a certified physician executive (CPE) with over 30 years of...
A new telewound module can aid...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
How an Innovative Telewound Module May Aid the Wound Clinic
Telehealth
08/04/2020
A new telewound module can aid patients by facilitating virtual visits. Today’s Wound Clinic recently interviewed Bob Bartlett, the Chief Medical Officer at Swift Medical and a certified physician executive (CPE) with over 30 years of...
A new telewound module can aid patients by facilitating virtual visits. Today’s Wound Clinic recently interviewed Bob Bartlett, the Chief Medical Officer at Swift Medical and a certified physician executive (CPE) with over 30 years of...
A new telewound module can aid...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Why Telehealth Alone Won’t Solve the Burdens of Wound Management
Telehealth
08/04/2020
Although telehealth has proven a novel solution to the isolation necessitated by the pandemic, there is often no replacement for the human touch in wound care. This author describes a hybrid approach of digitizing wound management to assist...
Although telehealth has proven a novel solution to the isolation necessitated by the pandemic, there is often no replacement for the human touch in wound care. This author describes a hybrid approach of digitizing wound management to assist...
Although telehealth has proven a...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic