"Welcome to our company blog. Within these blog posts, we hope to share our insights on clinical quality management, the patient-centered medical home, chronic disease management in primary care, evidence-based medicine, and the use of technology in ambulatory care settings."

- David Morin, CEO and Donald Nease Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer

State-of-the-art software solutions are today architected as software-as-a-service ("SaaS"). This means the software solution is: built from the ground up to be delivered via the internet - this is very different than a system delivered via application service provider ("asp"). An ASP-delivered system is one that wasn't built originally to support web delivery but is using additional technology overlayed on top of it to allow that to happen hosted at a 3rd party data center accessed by the user through a secure internet connection If you utilize a SaaS product, what does it mean for you? You don't need to buy additional hardware or systems software for your practice. You just need your PCs to be able to use an Internet browser and have Internet access. You don't need to manage a server and its backups. Updates are quickly available to you as they are simply installed by your vendor. You'll get better tech and user support, as the vendor can securely get access to the system and its server. Implementation is faster and easier because you don’t need to go through the effort of setting up all the hardware and doing all the installation of technology to use the product. SaaS will certainly be the future delivery model for many software solutions. It eliminates many of the soft costs of a technology implementation (usually a 3:1 ratio relative to software costs - you will spend $3 on hardware, infrastructure, support, etc. for each $1 you spend on a software product) and ensures you keep current on the latest software release. For solutions such as Cielo Clinic, SaaS is the best way to get the product in a user's hands. Dave Morin CEO Cielo MedSolutions LLC