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Christie Clinic presents how they are delivering patient-centered, quality care within their community. Using Phytel and MED3OOO, Christie uses proven technology to deliver timely, coordinated care to their patients. Christie also send reminders to patients per patient preference for preventive / follow-up care, helping to meet the needs of meaningful use.

Phytel is highlighted on WGN nationally as a high-tech physician's assistant - technology helping patients stay healthy. Local doctors in Chicago are using Phytel to better manage patient care. Dr. Joseph Kaliski, Internal Medicine Specialist, Elmhurst Clinic: "This allows us to be much more proactive in contacting patients and letting them know they need to be followed up for their medical problems." Problems that require routine care like diabetes and high blood pressure, but many patients don't comply with doctors' orders or they simply forget to schedule a visit. Seventy percent of Dr. Joseph Kaliski's patients have some type of chronic disease.

Prevea Health successfully implemented an automatic care management solution by identifying gaps in patient care against evidence-based guidelines and delivering a patient outreach program that dramatically reduced patient non-compliance with chronic, preventive or follow-up services. Using an electronic registry and quality reporting, Prevea delivered a patient-centered quality improvement program within 6 months, and effectively changed patient behavior – enhancing care quality and improving outcomes. Prevea was able to demonstrate impressive results, slashing non-compliance for diabetes and hypertension by half while enabling additional insight into their population for additional improvements in health care quality.

Family Medicine, Geriatrics and Wellness, a multi-specialty practice in Pennsylvania, achieved Level 3 Medical Home certification through the National Committee for Quality Assurance's (NCQA NCQA National Committee on Quality Assurance, see there ) Physician Practice Connections[R]--Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH[TM]) program. "We're thrilled to receive the highest level of certification, and extremely proud that our commitment to improving treatment and outcomes has been recognized," said Joseph Mambu, M.D., CHD CHD coronary heart disease.

Elmhurst Clinic recently won the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MSHUG) 2009 Innovation Award in the category of Clinical Care - Ambulatory Records. A 92-provider multispecialty group, the Elmhurst Clinic was recognized for using information technology to improve the quality of care at its eight clinics in DuPage and Cook Counties in Illinois. Along with the immediate access to patient data and the connectivity provided by the group's electronic health record, Phytel's electronic registry and automated messaging to patients have helped Elmhurst deliver that higher level of care.