"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

Working and partnering with great physician groups is really important to Cielo MedSolutions.

Here’s a quick intro to our latest group:

Mercy~Physician Community PHO is a group of 31 primary care providers based in Port Huron, Michigan (a town about an hour north of Detroit). The PHO is led by Marianna Webb, their Executive Director and features a strong support team.

The PHO recently went through an extensive review of technology options and vendors to support their quality initiatives; specifically, Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) and Physician Group Incentive Program (PGIP), a BlueCross BlueShield of Michigan pay-for-performance program. After that review, they selected Cielo Clinic as their clinical quality management system (registry, clinical decision support and population management).

The PHO will be using the product to track ALL chronic diseases, not just what’s required for their pay-for-performance programs, and utilizing centralized reporting to be proactive about screening, prevention and chronic disease management surveillance.

Interfaces are being put in place with their various other health information technology solutions. They have decided to adopt a train-the-trainer model and will have a PHO staff member training the practices on using the product. And, they will be measuring the impact Cielo Clinic is having on care quality.

Mercy~Physician Community PHO is doing all the right things to ensure success with our product. It’s wonderful to work with a group such as theirs that views quality improvement the way we do.

Dave Morin
CEO and Co-Founder
Cielo MedSolutions LLC