"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

We are proud to announce that we have been awarded a $1.3 million Phase II STTR  from the National Cancer Institute to develop and prototype a next-generation clinical quality management system. This award is a follow-on to our previous Phase I project. In the Phase I we studied and documented what technology primary care practices and providers need for disease management and quality improvement. In this Phase II project, we will be developing and prototyping a system that meets these needs. As was the case in Phase I, we are teaming with the University of Michigan Health System Department of Family Medicine on the project. We are also very proud of the perfect score we received on the grant. We think this is a testament to the need of our work. We'll be working with lots of great people on this and involving many in the healthcare community. We look forward to showing you what we come up with with! For more information on the grant, click here. Dave Morin Co-Founder and CEO Cielo MedSolutions

A 2006 report by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors has  shown that behavioral health patients die 25 years earlier than the general population.  There's strong evidence that this is due to the lack of attention to primary health problems and risk factors in these patients. To support care collaboration between primary and behavioral health providers on behavioral health patients, Cielo is working with the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare,  the oldest and largest national community behavioral healthcare advocacy organization in the country, to implement Cielo Clinic. Through a series of projects, pairs of practices (a pair being one community health center or primary care practice and one behavioral health clinic) will utilize Cielo Clinic to provide both point-of-care reminders for  behavioral and primary care health matters and population management.  Regardless of which provider a patient sees, their encompassing care needs will be presented to the provider seeing them. As a part of this project, Cielo has developed specialized synchronization software that will keep each Cielo  database in synch for data changes.  So, when a diabetes prompt is answered by a behavioral health provider, the primary care provider will get the info about what was done, and vice-versa. These projects span across the United States and they are a great testament to the power of a clinical quality management system for care coordination and use outside of primary care. Dave Morin CEO and Co-Founder Cielo MedSolutions