"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

To expand the reach of our registry into all areas of clinical care, I'm pleased to announce our latest partnership with MyCareTeam. MyCareTeam is a Massachusetts-based company that has a wonderful, proven diabetes management product. Their product, MCT-Diabetes, allows patients to download data from their home glucose monitoring device into their web-based diabetes management tool. This web-based management tool then helps patients monitor their glucose, look at trends and build up a health record. This health record can be shared with care providers or uploaded to Google Health. Our partnership will allow MCT-Diabetes to download this information right into a patient record in Cielo Clinic. So, a diabetic patient monitoring their glucose could, through MCT-Diabetes, send their information to their provider and this information would be seamlessly inserted into the patient's Cielo Clinic electronic health record. Our population management tools and decision support engine can then make use of this data to help with management. Great stuff for a Medical Home. Dave Morin CEO and Co-Founder Cielo MedSolutions

Kudos to Joe Fortuna, chairman-elect of the healthcare division of the American Society of Quality, for speaking to the 21st Century Health Care Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives on technolgy implementation in health care. Click for article Joe stressed the importance of getting the business processes of a practice organized prior to implementing a new technology and ensuring the culture of the practice is ready for the new technology tool. I couldn't agree more. My 20+ years of experience in technology implementations has proven to me, over and over again, that a successful technology implementation is as much about the technology as it is about the organization's ability to adopt it -meaning it has clear definition about what it wants to accomplish, it's processes are streamlined (automating lousy processes only makes the lousiness go faster) and the people using the technology are engaged, ready to take advantage of the technology tool and willing to put in the effort to make it work. Dave Morin CEO and Co-Founder Cielo MedSolutions They briefed the caucus on the importance of proper preparation to ensure successful implementation of healthcare IT and emphasized the need to optimize the business processes and culture of provider organizations before deploying new information technologies.