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In each issue, a member of Cielo's Medical Advisory Board will answer your questions about clinical quality management, Cielo Clinic, and other topics discussed in this newsletter.

Q: We are still on paper charts, how can Cielo Clinic help us?

A: Cielo Clinic can be the first step toward adopting technology in your practice. Providers can interact with the system at the point-of-care through a printed encounter form. Through this form, providers are given a snapshot of each patient's needed services and existing problems. Providers simply document care actions taken on this form and a practice staff member enters the information into Cielo Clinic in a matter of seconds. Through this interaction, a practice is building an all-problem, all-patient registry of clinical information and can use the patient outreach tools to reach patients due for services but not scheduled for a visit. The burden of quality reporting can be eased by eliminating the need for costly chart pulls. And, by building this database of care information, it can then be used to populate additional technology investments such as practice management and electronic medical record systems.

Donald E. Nease, Jr., MD is Associate Professor and a Family Physician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System and Chief Medical Officer at CieloMedSolutions.

If you have a question to ask Cielo, email us at ask@cielomedsolutions.com. We may feature your question in an upcoming issue.

Clinical Quality News

Volume 1 Issue 3 - September 2008

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