Health Care Economics

By Glenda Motta RN, MPH The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that nearly one in five Medicare patients discharged from a hospital—approximately 2.6 million seniors—is readmitte...

By Lydia A Meyers RN, MSN, CWCN I recently wrote a blog on my proposal to remodel home health care. I continue my musings as we consider other ways we can incorporate consumer-based business and ma...

By Cathy Wogamon, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, CWON, CFCN Wound care has evolved into a massive specialty service in the past few decades, with new treatment modalities, advances in care, and thousands of wou...

Christine Miller, DPM, DMM, PhD, FACCWS One of the most difficult aspects of patient care is dealing with non-compliance. How do we help those who refuse to help themselves? This question is very c...

by Marcia Nusgart, Executive Director, Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders Editor's note:This blog post is part of the WoundSource Trending Topics series, bringing you insight into the latest clini...

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD Your mortgage company will not be able to hike your interest rate by 500% before the maturity date. If they tried, you could sue them for breach of contract and simply go...

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD The 10 year old son of friends of mine incurred a gash in his right knee. After the injury, he was able to walk without pain in the leg (the gash did hurt, of course) but...

As patient-driven groupings model hits home care, patients or their caregivers will be expected to do more of the care. Subsequently, nursing staff are expected to provide more education, making "how ...