March 2010

Features

• A New Paradigm: The Patient As Consumer

  Ready or not, here they are. They're not just patients. They're not just clients. They're also consumers: purchasers of health care with strong likes and dislikes. Consumerism increasingly is driving the demand for goods and services provided in the U.S. health care system.

• Free to Lead

  Student-run pro bono clinics are benefiting patients and future PTs.

• Contemporary Topics in Health Care: The Patient Centered Medical Home

  Is the medical home the new paradigm for patient care?

• Health Care Technology Today

  Here's a look at some development in the field of health care technology.

Columns and Departments

• Career Coach: Opening the Gift

  Tapping individual's talents.

• Compliance Matters: Minding Your PQRI

  Changes and Guidance for 2010.

• Ethics in Practice: Discomfort Zone

  When optimal care-giving becomes a stretch.

• PTAs Today: Retired but Not Retiring

  A veteran PTA looks back-and ahead.

• This Is Why: Community Service

  A PT gets his neighbors moving.

• PT Resource

  - Business Sense
  - Data Points
  - On The Web
  - Practice Partner
  - The Funny Bone