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 HIMSS 
  March  2006 - Volume 1, No. 3
  
  Segue  to Successful Disease Management with Health IT
  
  A 2005  Ambulatory Care Davies Award of Excellence recipient, the Southeast Texas  Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA) has focused on disease management during the  implementation of the EMR.  James  L. Holly, M.D. and Mark A.  Wilson, M.D founded this group practice in 1995 with the goal of designing  a healthcare delivery system that would integrate all of the various components  of a family's health needs in a multi-specialty setting.  The practice has  grown to become a multi-specialty clinic with three clinical locations and a  secure electronic medical record system for all patients.  Clinical  support services include a clinical laboratory, mobile x-ray services, and  physical therapy department, as well as a number of Special Clinics.
  
  Now SETMA is  part of an American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation CARDIO-HIT  study.  Of the six practices participating in CARDIO-HIT, which range from  academic, university-based programs to large specialty-based practices, the AMA  staff said that SETMA "has the most expansive and impressive tools for  fulfilling the goals of the study."  They added, "We have never seen  anything like this anywhere."
  
 Links to more  information from SETMA:
  
  More Than A Transcription  Service: The paper, written in 1999, looks at SETMA's philosophy of "electronic patient  management."   
  
  The Less Initiative at SETMA: Read more about the  practice's approach to disease management:  Lose Weight - Exercise - Stop -  Smoking.
  
  Electronic  Patient Management:Read Dr. Holly's presentation - Spanning the Specialties -  at HIMSS2006  to learn about the design of an EMR from the perspective of "electronic patient  management" and Dr. Peter Senge's systems thinking concepts from The Fifth Discipline. 
  
  The SETMA Approach to Patient Care 
  - Pursue       Electronic Patient Management rather than Electronic Patient Records.
 
  - Bring       to bear upon every patient encounter what is known rather than what a       particular provider knows.
 
  - Make       it easier to do it right than not to do it at all.
 
  - Continually       challenge providers to improve their performance.
 
  - Infuse       new knowledge and decision-making tools throughout an organization       instantly.
 
  - Establish       and promote continuity of care with patient education, information and       plans of care.
 
  - Enlist       patients as partners and collaborators in their own health improvement.
 
  - Evaluate       the care of patients and populations of patients longitudinally.
 
  - Audit       provider performance based on the Consortium for Physician Performance       Improvement Data Sets.    
 
  - Create       multiple disease-management tools which are integrated in an intuitive and       interchangeable fashion giving patients the benefit of expert knowledge       about specific conditions while they get the benefit of a global approach       to their total health. 
 
 
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