StuWilli, Author at Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Psychiatric treatment as an urgent care model

Urgent message: Offering mental health services in an urgent care setting could facilitate treatment for conditions such as depression and help eliminate the stigma associated with psychiatric care. Introduction Consumers value urgent care for its on-demand access to medical treatment without waiting to schedule a doctor’s appointment and for its cost savings over hospital emergency rooms (ERs). While urgent care centers have historically focused on treating coughs, sniffles, cuts, scrapes, sprains and strains, the convenience …

An Urgent Care Approach to Joint and Soft-Tissue Injection/ Aspiration: Part 1

Urgent message: Injection/aspiration therapy for selected musculoskeletal complaints is becoming more common in urgent care practice. Providers need a thorough understanding of injection/aspiration procedures and associated risks to be equipped to deliver rescue therapy to patients. THOMAS V. GOCKE, III, MS, ATC, PA-C, DFAAPA Joint pain, joint effusion, and recurrent soft-tissue trigger point irritation are common presentations in urgent care. As more and more patients present seeking immediate relief of such symptoms, it’s important that …

September 2014

Abstracts in Urgent Care – September 2014

Antibiotics and middle ear effusion Key point: Treatment with antibiotics seems to reduce the duration of middle ear effusion. Citation: Tapiainen T, Kujala T, Renko M, et al. Effect of antimicrobial treatment of acute otitis media on the daily disappearance of middle ear effusion: A placebo-controlled trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2014;168(7):635-641. Authors in this randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial compared 84 children aged 6 months to 15 years with acute otitis media who were either given …

2014 Urgent Care Buyer's Guide

Security Risk Assessment: Protecting Patients and Practice

Securing protected health information (PHI) is a goal we all share. Collectively, however, we are relatively clueless about how to achieve this, largely because of the massive amount of technology that almost all of us have adopted. A simple understanding begins with the most basic categorization of the technology that we use to store, transfer, and manage PHI: Software and hardware. Hardware includes all devices (desktops, laptops, routers, EKGs, and mobile devices) that store or …

Woman with minor finger trauma

These x-rays were taken on a woman with minor trauma to and pain in her finger. View the images taken (Figures 1 & 2) and consider what your diagnosis would be.

Telemedicine 2014 – Medicine Without Borders

Jason A. Williams MPAS, PhD Dr. Williams is the founder of FastMed Urgent Care. The worst disservice we did to telemedicine was in fact calling it telemedicine. If we had just added video conferencing to our telephone calls to patients under our current practice as health care providers, we would have just called this a service improvement. Most physician practices phone patients to follow up, make appointments, relay lab results, answer questions about medications, and …

X-rays of a man who had fallen on an outstretched hand

These x-rays were taken on a man who had fallen on an outstretched hand. View the images taken (Figure 1 & 2) and consider what your diagnosis would be.

Pros and Cons of Sale-Leaseback Financing for Urgent Care

Author: Alan A. Ayers, MBA, MAcc, Experity, Practice Management Editor, The Journal of Urgent Care Medicine with James Nawalaniec, St. Louis University URGENT MESSAGE: A growing urgent care operation has a constant need for working capital to open centers, expand existing centers, scale processes and technology, recruit providers and staff, and to support sales and marketing. While urgent care entrepreneurs have historically relied upon personal savings, bank loans or the equity investment of third parties, …

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