October 26, 2011
At Indiana University Medical Group, we’re really proud to have eight sites that have achieved level 3 Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. A Patient-Centered Medical Home is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care. It facilitates partnerships between individuals as patients and their personal providers while providing better access to health care and increasing satisfaction. A medical home is a sophisticated primary care practice where technology is utilized with services to enhance the doctor-patient relationship and bring additional teammates into the care of patients.
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April 05, 2011
As a follow up to the previous Direct Project post, which highlighted the essentials of the Direct Project and included a historical account of Cerner’s involvement to date, this post will focus on our plans to leverage the Direct Project standards to solidify a network of health participants.
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December 16, 2010
I received the following email:My doctor put me on metoprolol [Lopressor or Toprol-XL] for my high blood pressure about 3 months ago, and increased my dose to 200 mg twice a day about a month ago, but so far it's not working. My blood pressure hasn't changed a bit. Is there something in my genomics SNP results here that can explain this? Should I expect it'll just take awhile? Should I be on a different drug? Here are my SNP microarray results. What should I ask my doctor when I go for my check-up in 2 weeks?
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