"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

If you are evaluating or researching the technology underpinnings of a medical home, you should take a look at wonderful piece (available on the internet) called "Health IT to Support the Patient-Centered Medical Home" authored by Michael Klinkman and Robert Phillips. This slide show accompanied recent testimony they gave to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. It's probably different than many of the other presentations you've seen on this topic, but what they have to say is very powerful. Dave Morin CEO Cielo MedSolutions Disclosure: Michael Klinkman is on the Medical Advisory Board of Cielo MedSolutions.

We have begun work on our recently awarded grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute in partnership with the University of Michigan Health System Department of Family Medicine. In this six month project we will be: 1. Investigating how, in existing implementations, Cielo Clinic impacts prevention and chronic disease care by examining changes in care delivery and clinical workflow, documenting the impact on patient, clinician and office staff satisfaction, gathering feedback from current end-users and researching current and future needs with regards to clinical quality improvement in primary and ambulatory care. 2. Designing a prototype of a next-generation clinical quality management system that is affordable and adoptable, built upon the principles of Cielo Clinic and tracks and manages activities and outcomes at all stages including screening, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, involving all care delivery participants, including patients and non-office care-givers, and delivers proactive prompts and reminders to clinicians regarding required services. This is a very significant R&D opportunity for Cielo that will result in a state-of-the-art system that takes clinical quality management to a new level. Dave Morin CEO Cielo MedSolutions