July 2011

Features

• Virtual Worlds: A New Universe for Education, Patient Care, and More

  Entire worlds exist solely in the online "cloud." As in the real world, health care delivery and education play an important role.

• Contemporary Topics in Health Care: Guided Care

  Several new models of health care envision a primary point of contact for health care providers, patients, and family members. "Guided care" is one such model.

• Health Care Technology Today

  Here's a look at some advances and proposals in the field of health care technology.

• Creative Funding Sources

  PT and PTA programs show how to find grants to begin or enhance their offerings and to better serve their communities.

Columns and Departments

• Career Coach: Fitting the Shoe

  The importance of taking the patient's measure.

• Compliance Matters: RACs Redux

  An update on the work of Recovery Audit Contractors, and what PTs need to know.

• Ethics in Practice: Did I Write That?

  What do you do when your record-keeping has been "tweaked"?

• This Is Why: Aligned At Last

  Finding an anchor in a sea of possibilities.

• PT Resource

  - Health Care Headlines
  - Patient Perspective
  - Practice Partner
  - On the Web
  - Research Roundup
  - The Funny Bone
  - Data Points