"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

Happy New Year! I’m happy to report that we had a 400% growth in Cielo Clinic software licenses in 2008. In 2009, we will process our 1,000,000th patient encounter with our system. This is great testimonial to the power of Cielo Clinic. Dave Morin CEO and Co-Founder Cielo MedSolutions

Today we announced something that we think is quite unique. Many providers tell us that their electronic medical record system (EMR) or physician portal doesn't provide the chronic disease management functionality of Cielo Clinic and ask if we could "embed" Cielo Clinic into their existing technology solution to make it even more powerful. Well, now we can! Cielo Clinic now provides an embeddable web service. For you non-techies, here's what this means: Cielo Clinic's clinical decision support functionality can be integrated directly into another health IT application. (In other words, Cielo Clinic can run inside another application). This allows you to get evidence-based guideline clinical care reminders right inside your electronic medical record or physicial portal system. No need to utilize two separate applications to get care reminders! We've already begun work with our first EMR vendor that wants to integrate our technology and have many more we are talking with. This is pretty unique stuff and we think it is important. As we've said in the past, our goal is to make technology fit into your workflow and this certainly helps in that regard. If you'd like to talk about how this can integrate into your EMR or physician portal, just give us a call or e-mail! Dave Morin CEO Cielo MedSolutions LLC

For those looking to adopt a clinical quality management system or registry, a new must read is available in Medical Care, September 2008 - "Impact of a Generalizable Reminder System on Colorectal Cancer Screening in Diverse Primary Care Practices: A Report From the Prompting and Reminding at Encounters for Prevention Project" (Medical Care. 46(9) Supplement 1:S68-S73, September 2008. Subscription required for fulltext). This study, funded by the National Cancer Institute and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, implemented Clinfotracker (the technology on which Cielo Clinic is based) in 12 diverse practices in Michigan to drive improvement in colorectal cancer screening rates. An average 9% increase was achieved in just 9 months. This paper studies the ability of a reminder system to improve care delivery and also reviews the ability of practices to adopt clinical technology. I think the second part of this study is just as important as the first part! Dave Morin CEO Cielo MedSolutions