Categorized as: Health Policy
13May Happy Mother’s Day: Get Real
Welcome to PT Think Tank’s new website design and Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there! Today, we’re going to jump right in and get real on Mother’s Day. So real, in fact, that we’re going to talk about fistulas. Obstetric fistulas, to be specific. The kind that form mostly in impoverished countries aft
08Jul The Value of a Patient Portal: Increasing Compliance While Reducing Cost
As patients become more and more interested in engaging and communicating with their healthcare providers online, the demand for portal applications will only increase. Patients are looking for innovative ways to access their health information and care providers – what better way than online patient portals? Portals are healthcare related onl
25Jun The AB783 Story Continues
PT in Motion News Now now alerted me that AB783 has been re-scheduled for hearing on Monday June 27th. This bill will be heard in the California Senate Standing Committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development. The drama surrounding AB783 has taken some interesting turns over the past few weeks. June 13th: AB783 fails to
20Jun AB783 and the California Campaign to STOP POPTS
On Monday, June 13th California Assembly Bill AB783 failed to pass out of committee in the California Legislature. The bill, which would explicitly allow physicians to employ physical therapists, would have been in stark contrast to current State of California Legislative Counsel opinion which states that it is illegal for physical therapists to be
14Mar It’s Not About the Patient
If you have not yet viewed this video from Jack Bert, MD, from which the above screen shot was taken, please check it out now. Brace yourself. At the 8-minute mark, he discusses PT. He gets excited that a physician in SC was able to hire a chiropractor and “athletic trainers to do the PT”
28Feb Physician Owned Physical Therapy Services (POPTS) in California. The anti-POPTS movement goes Web 2.0
Physical Therapists in California are taking to all forms of the web and utilizing Web 2.o Principles to oppose recent efforts by the California Medical Association and Legislator Mary Hayashi to LEGALIZE Physician Owned Physical Therapy Services in California through AB783. This bill would provide explicit language legalizing the employment of ph
10Feb Healthy People 2020: Physical Therapists in Health and Wellness
CSM kicked off with a talk about how physical therapist’s can fit into the Healthy People 2020 initiative . Further, the roles and potential roles of physical therapists in health, wellness, health promotion, and public health. Work towards health focused practices Health as an outcome Physical Therapy is about movement and function Address s
20Dec Sickening Report from WSJ
Spine Surgery Greed Already controversial, yet continually growing more common, instrumented spinal fusion surgery took a public relations hit in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal. “Top Spine Surgeons Reap Royalites, Medicare Bounty” is an excellent, if not disheartening piece of investigative health journalism. This piece
22Apr “At least my spine is aligned now…”
Comfortably Bad Medical Beliefs These were the words of a friend who had just been to see a chiropractor for her sore back. I had treated her back the day before and had asked how it felt. The response was, “Well, I went to see a chiropractor today and it’s still really sore, but at
20Oct Can You Write?
We know the world is all about Healthcare reform right now…well a lot of it is. I saw that Congress received 150,000 phone calls in one day! Well, if you don’t feel like calling and can’t get to Capitol Hill for a visit, try writing a letter! Check out this extremely detailed post about writing
