"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

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