Social Media and Healthcare Providers
As a healthcare provider, do you know the risks of using social media – both personally and professionally? A recent survey of more than 4,000 physicians survey found that over 90% used some form...
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Best Practices: Documenting Labs & Diagnostic Imaging
Complete and thorough documentation of laboratory and diagnostic imaging studies is an important part of the clinical record. Laboratory and diagnostic imaging studies performed and/or interpreted by the provider must be documented. The clinical...
Resveratrol and quercetin as cancer therapies?
In a recent press release, the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy released results of new research that identify resveratrol and quercetin as possible components for new cancer treatments. In a laboratory setting researchers...
Best Practices: Documenting Modalities & Procedures
Naturopathic and chiropractic physicians need to accurately record clinical information when providing or performing physical therapy modalities and procedures. Standards for “best practices” rely on these records to establish the clinical necessity and effectiveness...
Containing Healthcare Costs with Integrative Medicine
For anyone looking to understand how integrative medicine can help stem the tide of rising healthcare costs, the "Health and Medical Economics: Applications to Integrative Medicine" white paper, published in 2009, offers insight into...
Best Practices: The Anatomy of a SOAP Note
In a previous post, we reviewed the necessity of basic best practices for SOAP notes including legibility, identification, and dated chart entries. In this post, we review the proper structure and contents of a...
Chiropractic care to be covered for Oregon Medicaid population
A new randomized clinical trial just published in the medical journal Spine compared medical care of prescribed medications to chiropractic spinal manipulation. The study results revealed that 94% of patients receiving chiropractic manual-thrust spinal...
Best Practices: Problem-Oriented Medical Record and SOAP Notes
In 1968, Lawrence Weed, MD, developed the problem-oriented medical record (POMR) “… to develop a more organized approach to the medical record…” (Weed L. Medical records that guide and teach. NEJM Vol. 278, No....
Helping Patients Facing Surgery
Over the last several years, there has been an trend toward patient participation in medical decision-making. Known as “shared decision-making’, this model puts emphasis on involving the patient in their treatment decisions with input from...