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Meet Matthew Garoufalis, DPM, FACFAOM – today at 9 p.m. ET

May 14, 2013

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Meet Gabriel Halperin, DPM — today at 9 p.m. ET

May 7, 2013

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ACFAOM’s Certified Clinical Podiatric Medical Assistant Course

April 30, 2013

ACFAOM recently launched the Certified Clinical Podiatric Medical Assistant (CCPMA) course . Partnering with Medinail Learning Center, ACFAOM now offers podiatric medical assistants the opportunity to learn important clinical background information about working with patients’ feet, and bringing them to a higher level of clinical expertise so they can provide more clinical support to the doctor, such as nail debridement and routine foot care. The CCPMA provides proof, through the certification process, that the assistant has passed a course containing the professional information needed to work in a clinical assisting role in a podiatry office.

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Meet Roy Lidtke, DPM, FACFAOM – today at 9 p.m. ET

April 30, 2013

Dr. Roy Lidtke will be the guest on today’s Meet the Masters audio-conference (at 9 p.m.

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Poor communication ups risk of malpractice suits, patient nonadherence

April 16, 2013

With patient satisfaction increasingly being tied to reimbursement and physician compensation, the days of considering communication a “soft skill” for doctors are long gone.

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Sen. Johnson: Obama health law will ‘lead to rationing’

March 12, 2013

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., warned that President Obama’s healthcare law could lead to rationing of medical services

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Bunion cases growing in younger patients

February 26, 2013

Who would have thought that a high school freshman would get hit with bunions? “Even walking or with sports, it started to hurt really bad,” Jocelyn Marko, of North Huntingdon, Pa., said. With her many sports activities, having a bunion was debilitating.

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Health world braces for sequester

February 26, 2013

Every corner of the healthcare world has something – and potentially a lot – to lose from the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts set to hit the government on March 1. Doctors and hospitals say the sequester’s Medicare cuts will cost their industries more than 200,000 jobs just this year.

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Study: People with diabetes need to wear protective shoes indoors too

January 29, 2013

Diabetic patients too often walk without wearing their custom-made shoes designed to prevent foot sores that can lead to infections and amputations, new research finds.

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mHealth May Produce $305B in Productivity Savings by 2021 | Healthcare Information Technology

January 10, 2013

mHealth May Produce $305B in Productivity Savings by 2021 An intriguing report that seems to fit with many peoples’ emerging world view: • The capabilities offered by mobile technologies are fast being appreciated by the healthcare industry with a raft of devices, sensors, apps and other programs being developed that target chronic conditions, telemedicine and remote monitoring, patient data capture, electronic records, e-prescribing and the parallel industries of fitness and wellness. • Analysts expect the mHealth market’s value will increase to $11.7 billion by 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 39 percent.

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