How do health and wealth interact? This video provides an entertaining look at worldwide healthcare systems over the last 200 years. Most of the past health gains have been made conquering infectious diseases and acute problems, such as heart attacks. Where will the gains in the future come from? Beating chronic conditions. Physical therapists are in position to provide better healthcare for chronic conditions into the 21st century:
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"Physical therapy is not a subspecialty of the medical profession and physical therapists are not medical doctors; we are a separate profession that provides a unique service that physicians are unable and untrained to provide."
Letter to the AMA from the APTA, Dec 2009
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Tim Richardson, PT owns a private practice at Medical Arts Rehabilitation, Inc in Palmetto, Florida. The clinic website is at MedicalArtsRehab.com.
Bulletproof Expert Systems: Clinical Decision Support for Physical Therapists in the Outpatient Setting is a manager's workbook with stories, checklists, charts, graphs, tables, and templates describing how you can use paper-based or computerized tools to improve your clinic's Medicare compliance, process adherence and patient outcomes.
Tim has implemented a computerized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system in his clinic since 2006 that serves as a Reminder, Alerting, Prompting and Predicting CDS using evidence-based tests and measures.
Tim can be reached at
TimRichPT@BulletproofPT.com .
"Make Decisions like Doctors"
Copyright 2007-2010 by Tim Richardson, PT.
No reproduction without authorization.
Bulletproof Expert Systems: Clinical Decision Support for Physical Therapists in the Outpatient Setting is a manager's workbook with stories, checklists, charts, graphs, tables, and templates describing how you can use paper-based or computerized tools to improve your clinic's Medicare compliance, process adherence and patient outcomes.
Tim has implemented a computerized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system in his clinic since 2006 that serves as a Reminder, Alerting, Prompting and Predicting CDS using evidence-based tests and measures.
Tim can be reached at
TimRichPT@BulletproofPT.com .
"Make Decisions like Doctors"
Copyright 2007-2010 by Tim Richardson, PT.
No reproduction without authorization.