| My Valedictory Address and the Announcement of my Retirement |
09/13/2018 |
| Fifty Years of Memories |
09/06/2018 |
| Labor Day, September, 2018 Part II - What are the health benefits of work? |
08/30/2018 |
| Labor Day, September, 2018 Part I - What are the health benefits of work? |
08/23/2018 |
| Passion and Purpose. Hope and Charity Part II |
08/16/2018 |
| Passion and Purpose. Hope and Charity Part I |
08/09/2018 |
| Stress, Divorce, The Nurturing of a wife |
08/02/2018 |
| Seeking and Finding a “Good Death” |
07/26/2018 |
| Caring for Your Health versus Getting Healthcare |
07/19/2018 |
| SETMA's Clinical Laboratory Accreditation Renewed by Joint Commission |
07/11/2018 |
| Liberty and Freedom - Their Fruits and Blessings |
07/05/2018 |
| Suicide What Should We Do? |
06/28/2018 |
| Distinguished Alumni 50th Gala |
06/17/2018 |
| The Foundation of Health: Happiness |
06/14/2018 |
| The Implications of D Day, June 6, 1944 for the Delivery of Healthcare June 6, 2018 |
06/07/2018 |
| Gun Violence: Is there a solution? |
05/31/2018 |
| A Possible But Improbable Ebola Redux |
05/24/2018 |
| SETMA Commended by CDC, Texas Department of Health and Beaumont Health Department |
05/17/2018 |
| What are the health consequences of hate? |
05/10/2018 |
| Pharmaceuticals and Health: Cost and Care |
05/03/2018 |
| Don’t Let Your Life Be Like a Game of Solitaire |
04/26/2018 |
| Exposing and Disposing of Latent and Residual Racism |
04/19/2018 |
| The Promise and Value of the Electronic Medical Record |
04/12/2018 |
Personal Convictions and Public Responsibility, or Theocracy
versus Democracy: Part II |
04/05/2018 |
Personal Convictions and Public Responsibility, or Theocracy
versus Democracy: Part I |
03/29/2018 |
| In Healing Another You Will Find Your Own Cure |
03/22/2018 |
| Mrs. Dorothy Williams in Celebration of Her 100th Birthday |
03/08/2018 |
| How to stop school shootings!! |
03/01/2018 |
| Black History Month: My Personal Story |
02/22/2018 |
| Black History Month: I Have a Dream |
02/15/2018 |
| Racism and Prejudice: Major Contributors to Poor Health |
02/08/2018 |
| Influenza What Should I do? |
02/01/2018 |
| Black History Month |
01/25/2018 |
| A National Health Program |
01/11/2018 |
| The Future of Healthcare: Continue the Past or Change? |
01/04/2018 |
| As Christmas Approaches |
12/21/2017 |
| Healthcare Decisions: Rational or Rationed? |
12/14/2017 |
| Should You Care About Your Insurance Company's Welfare |
12/07/2017 |
| Is There anything to be Thankful For Today? |
11/23/2017 |
| CVS Health’s Response to Dr. Holly - Part II |
11/16/2017 |
| CVS Health’s Response to Dr. Holly - Part I |
11/09/2017 |
| When You Turn Seventy-four, You Begin to Think |
11/02/2017 |
| CVS Health Controlling Dispensing of Opioids Through Caremark - Part II |
10/26/2017 |
| CVS Health Controlling Dispensing of Opioids Through Caremark - Part I |
10/19/2017 |
| A Miracle On I-10, Saturday, September 16, 2017 |
10/12/2017 |
| Southeast Texas Medical Associates and Harvey |
10/05/2017 |
| CVS Plans to Change Prescriptions without Physician Approval - An Open Letter to CVS’ CEO |
09/28/2017 |
| Labor Day Offering |
08/31/2017 |
| UT Health San Antonio, The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine 1968 - 2018, Caring for People - Part III |
08/31/2017 |
| UT Health San Antonio, The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine 1968 - 2018, Caring for People - Part II |
08/24/2017 |
| UT Health San Antonio, The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine 1968 - 2018, Caring for People - Part I |
08/17/2017 |
| SETMA Begins Its 23rd Year |
08/10/2017 |
| The Power of Anniversaries and Celebrations |
08/03/2017 |
| Health & Stress: Prejudice, Hatred, Bitterness |
07/27/2017 |
| What If You Were Accused of Being A Racist? |
07/20/2017 |
| What is tertiary or third-hand smoke? Is it hazardous to your children and grandchildren? |
07/14/2017 |
| Medicine for the Mind, Soul and Spirit |
07/06/2017 |
| Those Who Pay the Cost of Freedom and Health |
06/29/2017 |
| Interrogative about Health Care in the 21st Century and Medicaid |
06/22/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part VIII - What is the Solution |
06/15/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part VII - Public Health and Opioids |
06/08/2017 |
| What Medical Home Really Is! |
06/01/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part VI - Texas Medical Board and the Prescribing of Habituating Medications |
05/25/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part V - The Real Surprise in Medication Reconciliation |
05/18/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part IV - Medication Reconciliation and the Electronic Medication History |
05/11/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part III - Electronic Prescribing of Control Substances |
05/04/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part II Better Record Keeping |
04/27/2017 |
| The Opioid Epidemic: Part I The Problem |
04/20/2017 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome |
04/13/2017 |
| The LESS Initiative |
04/06/2017 |
| Preventing Diabetes |
03/30/2017 |
| Progression to Type 2 Diabetes: Beta-Cell Failure |
03/23/2017 |
| Progression to Diabetes: Hyperinsulinemia and Beta Cell Fatigue |
03/16/2017 |
| Progression to Diabetes: Prediabetes and Insulin Resistance |
03/09/2017 |
| Learning from Patients: Diabetes or Not |
03/02/2017 |
| PC-MH: SETMA’s First Nine Years - Continuity, Creativity, Consistency |
02/24/2017 |
| Continuity Creativity Consistency Part X: The Place and Spirit of Accreditation Activities for Improving Healthcare which is Sustainable |
02/23/2017 |
| Continuity Creativity Consistency Part IX: Care Coordination and Convenience |
02/16/2017 |
| Continuity, Creativity, Consistency Part VIII: The Power of Story Telling |
02/09/2017 |
| Continuity Creativity Consistency Part VII: The Patient Centered Conversation |
02/02/2017 |
| Continuity, Creativity, Consistency Part VI: Producing a Sustainable High Quality Model of Care |
01/26/2017 |
| Continuity, Creativity, Consistency Part V: Organizational Philosophical Foundation |
01/19/2017 |
| Continuity, Creativity, Consistency Part IV: Team Work – the Key to Excellence in Healthcare |
01/12/2017 |
| Continuity, Creativity, Consistency Part III – Auditing for Quality and Safety |
01/05/2017 |
| Continuity, Creativity, Consistency Part II: Patient-Centered Medical Home |
12/15/2016 |
| Continuity, Creativity, Consistency Part I: The Less Initiative |
12/08/2016 |
| Healthcare Risk and Healthcare Liability |
11/17/2016 |
| How Should I Feel at 73? |
11/03/2016 |
| Part III Four categories defined by MIPS Correlate with Four Strategies SETMA Defined in 2000-2005 |
10/27/2016 |
| Part II Four categories defined by MIPS Correlate with Four Strategies SETMA Defined in 2000-2005 |
10/20/2016 |
| Part I Four categories defined by MIPS Correlate with Four Strategies SETMA Defined in 2000-2005 |
10/13/2016 |
| SETMA’s Innovations Over the Past Twenty Years Have Prepared Us for MACRA & MIPS |
10/06/2016 |
| Surescripts 2015 Annual Report Interview with Dr. James L. Holly |
09/29/2016 |
| SETMA’s Use of Quality Metrics 1998-2016 |
09/22/2016 |
| Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) - Part of the Future of Healthcare PQRI and PQRS - Part of the Past which Created the Future |
09/15/2016 |
| Labor Day, September 5, 2016 Labor or Lottery: Which Sustains Our Life |
09/08/2016 |
| What are MACRA and MIPS? Why Should I care? |
08/25/2016 |
| SETMA and National Committee on Quality Assurance Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition |
08/18/2016 |
| Summary of Closing Session of Third Visit to SETMA of Delegation from China |
08/11/2016 |
| The Remarkable Commonalities Between Healthcare Providers in China and the USA |
08/04/2016 |
| Delegation of Healthcare Executives from China: Third Visit and the Transforming Clinical Pracitice Initiative Library |
07/28/2016 |
| Why I Rejected the Conference on Dental Health Part V |
07/21/2016 |
| Why I Rejected The Conference on Dental Health Part IV |
07/14/2016 |
| Why I Rejected The Conference on Dental Health Part III |
07/07/2016 |
| Why I Rejected The Conference on Dental Health Part II |
06/30/2016 |
| Why I Rejected The Conference on Dental Health Part I |
06/23/2016 |
| Automated Medication Reconciliation Part IV of IV |
06/16/2016 |
| Automated Medication Reconciliation Part III of IV |
06/09/2016 |
| Automated Medication Reconciliation Part II of IV |
06/02/2016 |
| Automated Medication Reconciliation Part I of IV |
05/26/2016 |
| Healthcare Address from December 2, 1971 Part III |
05/19/2016 |
| Healthcare Address from December 2, 1971 Part II |
05/12/2016 |
| Healthcare Address from December 2, 1971 |
05/05/2016 |
| Northwestern State University Commencement Address 2016 |
04/21/2016 |
| The Role of e-Prescribing of Controlled Substances in Quality and Safety of Healthcare Part I |
04/14/2016 |
| General Health Dependent upon Dental Health |
04/07/2016 |
| Northwestern State University and the Long Purple Line Part II |
03/24/2016 |
| Northwestern State University and the Long Purple Line Part I |
03/17/2016 |
| Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (e-PCS) and Auditing |
03/10/2016 |
| The Place and Spirit of Accreditation Activities for Improving Healthcare which is Sustainable |
03/03/2016 |
| A Modest Proposal: Automated Medication Reconciliation |
02/25/2016 |
| Emotional Health Is Revealed in Defeat Not in Victory |
02/11/2016 |
| Alternative Payment Models for Healthcare Delivery - What is it and Why does it matter? |
02/04/2016 |
| AMA, ADA, CDC & Ad Council Announce their Pre-diabetes Public Awareness Campaign |
01/27/2016 |
| SETMA's Past Defined by Three Seven-Year Segments which Help Guide the Future |
01/21/2016 |
| Looking Back as a Foundation for Envisioning the Future Part II |
01/14/2016 |
| Looking Back as a Foundation for Envisioning the Future Part I |
01/07/2016 |
| CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative SETMA's Offer to CMS |
12/31/2015 |
| SETMA's Collaboration with Delegations from Mainland China |
12/17/2015 |
| CMS’ Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) |
12/10/2015 |
| The CMS Transforming Clinic Practice Initiative |
12/03/2015 |
| Thanksgiving Is Not Just Another Day: The Health of Gratitude |
11/26/2015 |
| Hospital Medical Staffs Being Asked to Comply with Recognized Standards |
11/19/2015 |
| Healthcare Provider Scope of Practice - Part III |
11/12/2015 |
| A Present to Myself for My 72nd Birthday |
11/05/2015 |
| Healthcare Provider Scope of Practice - Part II |
10/29/2015 |
| Healthcare Provider Scope of Practice - Part I |
10/22/2015 |
| An Example of Value-Based Payment: Chronic Care Management |
10/15/2015 |
| Moving Medical Payments from Volume to Value Or From Quantity of Services Performed to Quality of Care Produced |
10/08/2015 |
| ICD-10 – It’s Here; What Does it Mean and Why does it matter? |
10/01/2015 |
| ePCS and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program |
09/17/2015 |
| Unintended Consequences |
09/10/2015 |
| The Dignity, Nobility and Healthfulness of Labor |
09/03/2015 |
| Prescribing Pain Medications: A Conundrum for Patient and Provider |
08/20/2015 |
| Hospice and Palliative Care 2015 |
08/13/2015 |
| James L. and Carolyn Bellue Holly - Fifty Years of Marriage and Counting |
08/06/2015 |
| SETMA’s Twentieth Anniversary - August 1, 1995 -- August 1, 2015 |
07/30/2015 |
| Medicine and the Value of Human Life - 2015 |
07/23/2015 |
| Concierge Medicine: Professionalism vs. Entrepreneurism |
07/16/2015 |
| Freedom and Health |
07/09/2015 |
| Value, Virtue, Trust and Hope - The Foundation of Health Improvement |
07/02/2015 |
| A Summation of the Beginning and the End of a Journey |
06/11/2015 |
| A Series of Questions About PC-MH Part III |
06/04/2015 |
| A Series of Questions about PC-MH Part II |
05/28/2015 |
| Overcoming Healthcare Provider Fatigue with the Power of Electronics |
05/21/2015 |
| A Series of Questions about PC-MH Part I |
05/21/2015 |
| SETMA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Community Council - May 2015 |
05/14/2015 |
| Three Celebrations and Three Endowments |
05/07/2015 |
| SETMA's Patient-Centered Medical Home Community Council |
04/30/2015 |
| Value-Based Payment Reform Part II |
04/23/2015 |
| Value-based Payment Reform |
04/16/2015 |
| Texas Department of Aging and Disability’s Antipsychotic Medication Tool Kit |
04/09/2015 |
| Report on 7th Annual Medical Home Summit |
04/02/2015 |
| Genetics and Your Health |
03/26/2015 |
| Behavioral Health in SETMA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Model of Care |
03/19/2015 |
| PC-MH Patient Activation, Engagement and Shared-Decision Making Part II |
03/12/2015 |
| PC-MH Patient Activation, Engagement and Shared-Decision Making Part I |
03/05/2015 |
| The Power of Story Telling in Healthcare and in Life |
02/26/2015 |
| Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
02/19/2015 |
| HEDIS@: Measuring Quailty for Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations Part II |
02/12/2015 |
| HEDIS@: Measuring Quailty for Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations Part I |
02/05/2015 |
| May, 1999 -- Four Seminal Events in SETMA’s History |
01/29/2015 |
| Medical Home Summit |
01/22/2015 |
| The Ultimate Gift |
01/15/2015 |
| A Review of 2014 and What We Expect for 2015 |
01/08/2015 |
| Value, Virtue and Hope: Why Do So Many Do So Little About Their Health |
12/18/2014 |
| Home To Thanksgiving |
11/27/2014 |
| The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and SETMA |
11/20/2014 |
| Learning from the Death of a Parent |
11/13/2014 |
| Ebola: Lessons from Dallas and Facts about Ebola |
11/06/2014 |
| Ebola and Public Health |
10/30/2014 |
| SETMA: Ebola, EMR Herd Immunity and Ethics |
10/23/2014 |
| Certificate of Appreciation: Centers for Disease Control |
10/16/2014 |
| Penetration of PC-MH as of September 30, 2014 |
10/09/2014 |
| Healthcare and Numbers: Making the Switch to ICD-10 |
09/25/2014 |
| The AQ Journey: Business Analytics at SETMA |
09/18/2014 |
| Questions about SETMA |
09/04/2014 |
| The Dignity of Labor |
09/01/2014 |
| SETMA and Meaningful Use: Outline of SETMA's Deployment Part II |
08/21/2014 |
| SETMA and Meaningful Use: Outline of SETMA’s Deployment Part I |
08/14/2014 |
| Texas A&M Health IT Academy Part 5 of 5 |
07/31/2014 |
| Texas A&M Health IT Academy Part 4 of 5 |
07/24/2014 |
| Texas A&M Health IT Academy Part 3 of 5 |
07/17/2014 |
| A Texas A&M Health IT Academy Part 2 of 5 |
07/10/2014 |
| A Health IT Academy at Texas A&M |
07/03/2014 |
| mdVIP - Concierge Medicine - and Proctor and Gamble Part III |
06/26/2014 |
| Is mdVIP preventive care? Part II |
06/19/2014 |
| mdVIP vs Patient-Centered Medical Home Part I: Why They Are Not The Same |
06/12/2014 |
| If You Want to Change the World? - Part II |
06/05/2014 |
| If You Want to Change the World? - Part I: University of Texas 2014 Commencement Address |
05/29/2014 |
| Leadership: Character Traits Needed for Healthcare Transformation Part II |
05/22/2014 |
| Leadership: Character Traits Needed for Healthcare Transformation: Part I |
05/15/2014 |
| Patient-Centered Medical Home: Award & Chinese Delegation Visit to SETMA |
05/08/2014 |
| Teamwork: Big Pharma and Healthcare Providers |
05/01/2014 |
| SETMA’s Journey to Electronic Patient Management and Patient-Centered Medical Home: began at Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) October, 1997 National Meeting |
04/24/2014 |
| National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) Distinction in Patient Experience Reporting |
04/17/2014 |
| SETMA's Application for Always Events Recognition Program™ |
04/10/2014 |
| SETMA’s Community Council |
04/03/2014 |
| The Mission, the vision and the goals of SETMA’s Primary Care Medical Home |
03/27/2014 |
| SETMA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home and the Consumer Council |
03/20/2014 |
| EHR, Business Intelligence and Ethnic Disparaties of Care |
03/13/2014 |
| How Has PC-MH Changed Healthcare Delivery |
03/06/2014 |
| Patient Centered Medical Home Poster Child: An Update after Five Years of Treatment in a Medical Home |
02/27/2014 |
| What is SETMA’s Medical Home? Part IV |
02/20/2014 |
| What is SETMA's Medical Home? Part III |
02/13/2014 |
| What is SETMA's Medical Home? Part II |
02/06/2014 |
| What is SETMA’s Medical Home? Part I |
01/30/2014 |
| What Should SETMA Expect in 2014? |
01/23/2014 |
| What is the Right and Righteous Decision when the Brain is Dead but the Heart is Not |
01/16/2014 |
| What Does Patient-Centered Medical Home Mean to You? - The Examiner |
01/09/2014 |
| NCQA’s New Distinction in Patient Experience Reporting |
01/01/2014 |
| Christmas AD 1949 and AD 1 |
12/25/2013 |
| SETMA’s Meaningful Use Two Dilemma Part II |
12/19/2013 |
| SETMA’s Meaningful Use Two Dilemma Part I |
12/12/2013 |
| The Power of Gratitude for You and for Others |
11/28/2013 |
| American Heart and American Cardiology Recommendations for Using Statins to reduce Cardiovascular Risk |
11/21/2013 |
| What is third-hand smoke? Is it hazardous to your children? |
11/14/2013 |
| Lessons from a Tree: Excellence Medicine as a Provider or Patient |
11/07/2013 |
| How Our Healthcare System Evolved and How It Must Change: Patient-Centered Medical Home |
10/24/2013 |
| The Conversation Project |
10/17/2013 |
| The Familiar Physician Contrasted with SETMA’s Experience Part II |
10/10/2013 |
| The Familiar Physician Contrasted with SETMA’s Experience Part I |
10/03/2013 |
| Citadel - A 1937 Introduction to the Spirit of Patient-Centered Medical Home |
09/26/2013 |
| Paternalism or Partnership: The Dynamic of the Patient-Centered Transformation |
09/19/2013 |
| Patient Activation and Engagement |
09/12/2013 |
| Healthcare Transformation: Dynamic and Documents |
09/05/2013 |
| When the Positive Result Becomes the Ultimate Good |
08/29/2013 |
| Evidence-Based Medicine versus Alternative Medicine |
08/22/2013 |
| Is Unlimited Primary Care the Goal or Even Possible? |
08/15/2013 |
| Lessons from the African Ship of Hope |
08/08/2013 |
| SETMA's 18th Anniversary: August 1, 1995 - August 1, 2013 |
08/01/2013 |
| The Flaw of Subscription Medicine |
07/11/2013 |
| Improving the quality of healthcare; why not cheat? |
06/27/2013 |
| The Convergence of Public Health: Ethics, Primary Care and Routine HIV Testing in Healthcare |
06/27/2013 |
| Transitions of Care: Handing Off Care to an Activated Patient |
06/20/2013 |
| Improving Patient Care by Automating Care, Improving Patient Satisfaction and Care and Reducing Healthcare Provider Stress |
06/13/2013 |
| Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA) recognized as a National Model of Innovative Primary Care Practice |
05/30/2013 |
| May 25, 2013 Commencement Address for University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Health Professions |
05/16/2013 |
| Improving the quality of healthcare; why not cheat? |
05/09/2013 |
| Being Accountable For Good Preventive Care |
05/02/2013 |
| Provider Payment Reform: Incentives to Improve Care |
04/25/2013 |
| New Healthcare Competencies Required for Population Management |
04/18/2013 |
| Annual Cardiovascular Risk Assessment |
04/11/2013 |
| The Future of Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses |
04/04/2013 |
| Medicare Preventive Services: Initial Preventive Physical Exam & Annual Wellness Visit |
03/28/2013 |
| Transitions of Care Management Coding: SETMA’s Preparation and Solutions |
03/14/2013 |
| Continuous Professional Development: Learning from a Convergence of Events |
03/07/2013 |
| Patient and Family Engagement: Part I |
02/28/2013 |
| In Celebration of John Vardiman’s 50-Year Medical Career and His Farewell from SETMA |
02/21/2013 |
| Abraham Lincoln and Modern Healthcare |
02/15/2013 |
| Response to Week at Harvard Kennedy School of Government: Shaping Healthcare Delivery Policy |
02/09/2013 |
| The Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership and Healthcare |
01/31/2013 |
| SETMA's Inpatient Team Based Process Analysis: The Interaction of SETMA’s Hospital Care Team - Collegiality and "Electronic Huddles" |
01/24/2013 |
| SETMA’s Care Coordination Department’s Functions |
01/17/2013 |
| Hypertension: Fulfilling Quailty Metrics |
01/10/2013 |
| A Developmental History of SETMA Chapter 1 Part 2 Team Building |
01/03/2013 |
| A Developmental History of SETMA Chapter 1 Part I Team Building |
12/27/2012 |
| Don’t Tie the Possum under the Desk Unless you can Control all of the Potential Consequences |
12/20/2012 |
| Problem List Reconciliation: The Tools Required to Facilitate the Maintenance of a Current, Valid and Complete Chronic Problem List in an EMR-Part I |
12/13/2012 |
| From Homicidal Threat to Reciprocal Caring: A Patient-Centered Journey |
12/06/2012 |
| Anticipation, Expectation, Truth Telling |
11/29/2012 |
| True Thanksgiving is Always Autobiographical |
11/22/2012 |
| The Implications of the Presidential Election for Healthcare Policy |
11/15/2012 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Site Visit Team |
11/08/2012 |
| SETMA’s Care Coordination and Transitions of Care: Part I |
11/01/2012 |
| Acceptance Address: Part II - University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award 2012 |
10/25/2012 |
| Acceptance Address: Part I - University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award 2012 |
10/18/2012 |
| Is Your SETMA Medical Record Secure?: Part II |
10/04/2012 |
| Is Your SETMA Medical Record Secure?: Part I |
09/27/2012 |
| Active Management, Empowering Messages Allow Texas Group to Drive Steady HbA1c Reductions |
09/13/2012 |
| Critical Needs for Excellence in the Care of Diabetes |
09/06/2012 |
| Labor Day 2012: What are the health benefits of work? |
08/30/2012 |
| Healthcare Change and the Uninsured - Part II |
08/23/2012 |
| Healthcare Change and the Uninsured - Part I: Hope, Value, Virtue |
08/16/2012 |
| Principles of Change Agents: If you are going to make a change, it had better make a difference |
08/09/2012 |
| Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP: August 1, 1995 - July 31, 2012 |
08/02/2012 |
| HIMSS Innovation Committee and Introduction |
07/26/2012 |
| Health & Stress: Prejudice, Hatred, Bitterness |
07/19/2012 |
| SETMA’s Response to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Part VI The Primary Care Team Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices |
07/12/2012 |
| Remembering and important part of Health and Freedom |
07/05/2012 |
| SETMA’s Response to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Part V The Primary Care Team Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices |
06/28/2012 |
| SETMA’s Response to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Part IV The Primary Care Team Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices |
06/21/2012 |
| SETMA’s Response to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Part III The Primary Care Team Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices |
06/14/2012 |
| SETMA’s Response to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Part II - The Primary Care Team Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices |
06/07/2012 |
| SETMA’s Response to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Part I - The Primary Care Team: Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices |
05/31/2012 |
| Lessons Learned by a Health Educator |
05/24/2012 |
| Hospice Palliative Scales Part II |
05/17/2012 |
| Hospice Palliative Scales Part I |
05/10/2012 |
| STARs Program and SETMA’s Solution Part II |
05/03/2012 |
| STARs Program and SETMA's Solution |
04/26/2012 |
| Patient-Centered Medical Home Annual Questionnaires |
04/19/2012 |
| The Titanic: Technology, Temerity and Tradition - What Healthcare Can Learn From the Titanic |
04/12/2012 |
| A Care System for Effecting Reductions in Preventable Readmission Rates |
04/05/2012 |
| March 30, 1998 - March 30, 2012: SETMA's Journey Toward Electronic Health Records |
03/29/2012 |
| We May Not Have the Same Goals: Remembering Mark A. Wilson, MD |
03/22/2012 |
| Core Measures: Baptist Hospital of Southeast Texas |
03/15/2012 |
| Preventable Readmissions: Predictive Modeling, Nurse Practitioners and Changes in Models of Healthcare Delivery |
03/08/2012 |
| SETMA to Participate in the Guidelines Advantage Program |
03/01/2012 |
| Memories on the Dedication of the Auditorium |
02/23/2012 |
| SETMA Featured in National Publication - "A Portrait of Health" |
02/16/2012 |
| Can America’s Healthcare Problems be Solved?: Part I - How? |
02/09/2012 |
| CMMI Care Innovation Summit, Washington, D.C. January 26, 2012: Observations of an Attendee |
02/02/2012 |
| Prevention of and the Screening for Diabetes - Part 2: Diabetes Prevention Program at SETMA |
01/26/2012 |
| Prevention of and the Screening for Diabetes - Part I: Insulin Resistance |
01/19/2012 |
| Healthcare Quality Award 2012 - Part VI: Demonstrated Results on Publicly Reported Performance Measures |
01/12/2012 |
| Healthcare Quality Award 2012 - Part V: Data-Driven Improvement in the National Quality Strategy Priority Goal Areas |
01/05/2012 |
| When Is the Last Time, the Last Time? |
12/29/2011 |
| Healthcare Quality Award 2012 Part IV - Data-Driven Improvement in the National Quality Strategy Priority Goal Areas |
12/23/2011 |
| Healthcare Quality Award 2012 Part III - Commitment to Transparency |
12/15/2011 |
| Healthcare Quality Award 2012 Part II - Dashboard to Measure and Manage Whole System Performance |
12/08/2011 |
| Healthcare Quality Award 2012 Part I - Priorities for Performance Improvement |
12/01/2011 |
| Gratitude: The Foundation of Good Health |
11/24/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XVIII - Introduction to SETMA’s 2009, 2010 and 2011 Series of Articles on Medical Home |
11/17/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XVII - SETMA’s Model of Care & Patient-Centered Medical Home |
11/10/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XVI - Quality Metrics in the Medical Home |
11/03/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XV - The SETMA Foundation |
10/27/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XIV - Medication Reconciliation: AMA, NQF, ISMP |
10/20/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XIII - National Quality Forum and Care Coordination Part II |
10/13/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XII - National Quality Forum and Care Coordination |
10/06/2011 |
| Case Study: Laboratory Information Systems on ADVANCE for Administrators of the Laboratory |
10/01/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part XI - Continuation of Quality, Coordination and Cost of Care |
09/29/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part X - Quality, Coordination and Cost of Care |
09/22/2011 |
| Mental and Spiritual Health Require Our Standing for Goodness |
09/15/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part IX Telling The Truth and Collaboration |
09/08/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part IX Letter of Introduction SETMA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home |
09/08/2011 |
| Labor Day 2011: The Celebration of our Heroes |
09/01/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part VIII Patient Centered - What Does That Mean? |
08/25/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part VII Care Coordination |
08/18/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part VI Care Transitions |
08/11/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part V Continuity of Care |
08/04/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part IV A Metaphor for Medical Practice |
07/28/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part III The Baton |
07/21/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part II The Caution Lights |
07/14/2011 |
| Medical Home Series Two: Part I The Movie |
07/07/2011 |
| Shared Memories |
06/30/2011 |
| SETMA's LESS Initiative and AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange |
06/23/2011 |
| Futility and Entitlement: The Danger to Physicians in the Future of Medicine |
06/16/2011 |
| True May 30, 1996 - True June 2011 |
06/09/2011 |
| I don’t participate in a High Risk Behavior for HIV; why should I be tested? |
06/02/2011 |
| Texas State Reportable Infectious Diseases: A Systems Solution to the Problem of Reporting |
05/26/2011 |
| Care Transitions: The Heart of Patient-Centered Medical Home - The Article |
05/24/2011 |
| Over-diagnosis - THE Problem? |
05/19/2011 |
| Business Analytics and Your AQ |
05/05/2011 |
| Patient-Centered Medical Home and Care Transitions: Part II |
04/28/2011 |
| Patient-Centered Medical Home and Care Transitions: Part I |
04/21/2011 |
| 2011 Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Awards:SETMA A Semi-Finalist |
04/14/2011 |
| SETMA: Practices in the Spotlight Medical Home and Diabetes Care |
04/07/2011 |
| Reducing Preventable Readmissions to the Hospital |
03/31/2011 |
| Things I Would Like To Tell my Friend |
03/24/2011 |
| A Workshop: Leading for Health: Realizing Better Health, Better Care and Lower Cost Through Systems Leadership |
03/17/2011 |
| Accountable Care Organizations: What Is Required to Make Them Work? |
03/10/2011 |
| SETMA HIMSS Stories of Success: Part II -- Improving Population Healthcare and Safety Through Real-time Data access, Auditing and Reporting |
03/04/2011 |
| SETMA -- HIMSS Stories of Success:Part I -- Improving Population Healthcare and Safety Through Real-time Data access, Auditing and Reporting |
02/24/2011 |
| Pilgrimage to a Patient-Centered Medical Home |
02/17/2011 |
Key Note Address, Inauguration Ceremony November 30, 2010
Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP |
02/10/2011 |
| Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Quality Improvement: If You Make a Change will it Make a Difference? |
02/03/2011 |
| Concierge Medicine and the Future of Healthcare |
01/27/2011 |
| Patient-Centered Medical Home - Care Coordination and Coordinated Care |
01/20/2011 |
| Address to the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce August 2000 Part II |
01/13/2011 |
| Address to the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce August 2000 Part I |
01/06/2011 |
| A Review of 2010 and a Projection for 2011 |
12/30/2010 |
| Christmas Eve Eve |
12/23/2010 |
| Framingham Risk Scores and "What-If?" Scenarios |
12/16/2010 |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at Southeast Texas Medical Associates |
12/09/2010 |
| Introduction to the Inauguration of the Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at Southeast Texas Medical Associates |
11/25/2010 |
| The Visionary Founder of the Joslin Diabetes Center: SETMA's Pride and Promise |
11/18/2010 |
| SETMA and the National Quality Forum |
11/11/2010 |
| Joslin Affiliates’ 20th Annual Meeting |
11/04/2010 |
| Re-Evaluating the Value of Members of the Healthcare Team |
10/28/2010 |
| The Future of Healthcare - SETMA's View |
10/14/2010 |
| Diabetes Mellitus Type 2: How To Prevent the Disease |
10/07/2010 |
| Joslin Diabetes Center and SETMA's Diabetes Prevention Program |
09/30/2010 |
| A New Day in Healthcare for You and For Us - Part VI - Meaningful Use |
09/23/2010 |
| SETMA Recognized as Tier 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home by National Committee for Quality Assurance |
09/16/2010 |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at SETMA, LLP and NCQA Diabetes Recognition Program |
09/09/2010 |
| Labor Day 2010: Work, Workers, Hands |
09/06/2010 |
| A New Day in Healthcare for You and for Us - Part V - Certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) |
08/26/2010 |
| A New Day in Health Care for You and for Us - Part IV - Are Quality Metrics a Good Part of the Future of Healthcare? |
08/19/2010 |
| A New Day in Healthcare for You and for Us - Part III - Medical Home |
08/12/2010 |
| A New Day in Healthcare for You and for Us - Part II – NextGen Health Information@ Exchange (HIE@)) |
08/05/2010 |
| A New Day in Healthcare for You and for Us - Part I - NextMD |
07/29/2010 |
| Medicine and the Value of Human Life |
07/22/2010 |
| SETMA: A portrait versus a silhouette |
07/15/2010 |
| Vacation and Raccoons: Avoiding Rabies |
07/08/2010 |
| Health and Freedom: Remembering |
07/01/2010 |
| Learning Shema Target Theory Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors |
06/24/2010 |
| AHRQ - Ethnic Disparatiens in Care |
06/17/2010 |
| Quality of Care and Healthcare Reform |
06/10/2010 |
| The SETMA Model of Care - Diabetes - Precision Medicine, Quality Performance |
06/03/2010 |
| Changing Patient Behavior with Risk Assessment |
05/27/2010 |
| Patient-Centered Medical Home: The Power of Data in Designing the future of healthcare |
05/20/2010 |
| Eliminating Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Care |
05/13/2010 |
| Technology and Humanity: The Critical Balance in 21st Century Healthcare |
05/06/2010 |
| Designing a Quality Initiative: How? Hospital Re-admissions |
04/29/2010 |
| Entrepreneurism versus Professionalism Part II: Republicans and Democrats Both Have it Wrong |
04/22/2010 |
| Entrepreneurship vs Professionalism Part I: Drivers of Healthcare Cost |
04/15/2010 |
| Medical Home: Questions About Our Journey |
04/08/2010 |
| Health Care Reform: What is in the bill? |
04/01/2010 |
| Mark A. Wilson, MD - One Year Later |
03/23/2010 |
| Healthcare Policy Myths |
03/19/2010 |
| Passing the Baton: Effective Transitions in Healthcare Delivery |
03/12/2010 |
| County Health Rankings - Part II - Quality of Care - What Will Be Gained by Public Reporting |
03/04/2010 |
| County Health Rankings - Part I - Jefferson County’s Results and what it means |
02/26/2010 |
| Healthcare Reform: What Must Be Involved? Part III - Hard Choices; Personal Choice |
02/18/2010 |
| Healthcare Reform: What Must Be Involved? Part II -- Honesty |
02/11/2010 |
| Healthcare Reform: What Must Be Involved? |
02/04/2010 |
| Reporting of Health Care Provider Performance |
01/28/2010 |
| Plan of Care and Treatment Plan - Chronic Renal Disease |
01/21/2010 |
| Life, Solitaire and Healthcare |
01/14/2010 |
| 2010 - SETMA and the Future |
12/31/2009 |
| Giving And Receiving The Lessons of Christmas |
12/24/2009 |
| Holidays, Traditions and Grandmothers |
12/17/2009 |
| You Can Get There but You Have to Walk Part VI: The Elderly and Exercise and Your Walking Speed and your Heart |
12/10/2009 |
| Transforming Healthcare: Public Reporting of Provider Performance on Quality Measures |
12/03/2009 |
| Thanksgiving Day: Today |
11/26/2009 |
| Alcohol in health and in hearth |
11/19/2009 |
| COGNOS and SETMA - Why and What is our goal? |
11/17/2009 |
| Healthcare Change - Foundational Ideas |
11/12/2009 |
| Why I Like Getting Older |
11/05/2009 |
| Patient-centered Medical Home SETMA's COGNOS Project |
10/29/2009 |
| You can get there, but you have walk - Part V - 4 x 13 becomes 3 x 17.334 which become 2 x 26 |
10/22/2009 |
| You Can Get There but you’ll have to walk - Part IV - The Alternative to Expensive, Potentially Dangerous Healthcare Procedures |
10/15/2009 |
| You Can Get There but you have to Walk - Part III - The Miracle of DNA Analysis in Changing Your Future |
10/08/2009 |
| You Can Get There But You have to Walk - Part II - ApoE and Alzheimer's Disease |
10/01/2009 |
| You Can Get There but You have to Walk - Part I - "4 x 13" Project |
09/24/2009 |
| The Served as the Server |
09/07/2009 |
| Labor Day 2009: The Served as the Server |
09/07/2009 |
| A Plea for the Children |
09/03/2009 |
| Evidence-Based Medicine and the Treatment of Cholesterol and Triglycerides |
08/27/2009 |
| Healthcare Policy Issues Part III - Reforming or Transforming Healthcare |
08/20/2009 |
| Healthcare Policy Issues Part II - Reality, Responsibility and Rights |
08/13/2009 |
| Rationing Health Care vs. Rational Healthcare |
08/06/2009 |
| The Hope of the Future of Medicine in Good Hands |
07/30/2009 |
| The Place of Patient-Centered Medical Home in the Future of Healthcare Delivery |
07/23/2009 |
| Population Perspective: Adult Diabetes in Southeast Texas Inter-professional Collaboration and Health Outcomes |
07/16/2009 |
| An Analysis and Response to President Obama's Health Care Reform Address to the American Medical Association: Part IV - My Healthcare Reform |
07/09/2009 |
| An Analysis and Response to President Obama's Health Care Reform Address to the American Medical Association: Part III |
07/02/2009 |
| An Analysis and Response to President Obama's Health Care Reform Address to the American Medical Association: Part II |
06/25/2009 |
| An Analysis and Response to President Obama's Health Care Reform Address to the American Medical Association: Part I |
06/18/2009 |
| SETMA Renames SETMA West Clinic |
06/11/2009 |
| Medical Home Part X: A Summation of the Beginning of a Journey |
06/04/2009 |
| Medical Home Part IX: Radical Changes in Healthcare Delivery |
05/28/2009 |
| Medical Home Part VIII: Why is Medical Home Called Patient-Centered Medical Home? |
05/21/2009 |
| Can More Care Provide Less Health? |
05/14/2009 |
| The Vocabulary of Infectious Disease |
05/07/2009 |
| What Are Epidemics, Pandemics, and Outbreaks? |
04/30/2009 |
| The Swine Flu and You |
04/27/2009 |
| INFLUENZA: Pigs, People and Public Health |
04/26/2009 |
| Medical Home Part VII: Reporting of Quality Measures Performance |
04/23/2009 |
| Medical Home Part VI: Evidenced Based Medicine Defines the Standard and the Structure of Care |
04/16/2009 |
| Seeking and Finding a Good Death |
04/09/2009 |
| We will never forget |
04/02/2009 |
| Remembering My Friend |
03/26/2009 |
| Medical Home Part V: Healthcare Education and Delivery: Essential Changes Needed in Both |
03/19/2009 |
| Medical Home Part IV: Help and Hope in Healthcare |
03/12/2009 |
| Medical Home Part III: Requirement Number 1 of 28 |
03/03/2009 |
| Medical Home Part II: What is it? |
02/26/2009 |
| Medical Home Part I: Is it the future of healthcare? |
02/19/2009 |
| Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor I: Why Should I Care? |
02/12/2009 |
| 10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication |
01/29/2009 |
| Rapid Heart Beat or Tachycardia |
01/22/2009 |
| Starting an Exercise Program |
01/15/2009 |
| Pursuing Excellence in Healthcare Delivery:Personal Mastery and Electronic Medical Records as Tools of Excellence |
01/08/2009 |
| Data, Decisions, Directions:Creating in new breakpoint in the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus |
01/01/2009 |
| Reach Out and Touch Someone this Season |
12/18/2008 |
| The Healing Touch |
12/11/2008 |
| My Compact with SETMA and My Health |
12/06/2008 |
| For Your Stories: I Was There - Was There |
11/27/2008 |
| Metaphors for your Life |
11/20/2008 |
| Veterans Day: Remembering and Never Forgetting |
11/11/2008 |
| Sixty-Five and Counting |
11/04/2008 |
| November 4, 1943 - November 4, 2008 |
10/30/2008 |
| Stress Disorders - Part IV Treatment of Stress Disorders |
10/23/2008 |
| Stress Disorders - Part III Diagnosing Stress Disorders |
10/16/2008 |
| Stress Disorders - Part II Causes of Stress and Anxiety |
10/09/2008 |
| Stress Disorders - Part I Stress, Anxiety, Illness |
10/02/2008 |
| Your Healthcare Found in Your Caring for Others |
09/11/2008 |
| Labor Day 2008: The Intrinsic Worth of the Laborer |
09/01/2008 |
| The Miracle of DNA Analysis in Changing Your Future |
08/28/2008 |
| Memories Part III Learning: It Can Be Fun |
07/10/2008 |
| Health and Freedom: Remembering |
07/03/2008 |
| Memories Part II Learning: The Gift of Remembering and of Being Remembered |
06/27/2008 |
| Memories Part I: Storing and Sharing |
06/19/2008 |
| Pandemic V: Air Quality in Your Home - HEPA Filters |
06/12/2008 |
| Pandemic IV: World Health Organization (WHO) Recommendations |
06/05/2008 |
| Pandemic Part III: What can and what should I do? |
05/29/2008 |
| Pandemic II: Medical Ethics and Planning for a Pandemic which overwhelms the health-care delivery system |
05/22/2008 |
| Pandemic Part I: Exclusion Criteria for Critical Care during a Pandemic |
05/15/2008 |
| The Science of Appetite |
05/08/2008 |
| Quackery and Responsibility - My Lack of health Must Be Someone else's Fault |
05/01/2008 |
| Diet, Exercise and Cancer - The American Cancer Society Nutrition and Exercise Guide - Part IV - Nutrients, Cancer and Other Questions |
04/24/2008 |
| Diet, Exercise and Cancer - The American Cancer Society Nutrition and Exercise Guide - Part III - Foods and Cancer |
04/17/2008 |
| Why Beaumont Does Not Need and Should not Have a Third Hospital |
04/17/2008 |
| Diet, Exercise and Cancer - The American Cancer Society Nutrition and Exercise Guide - Part II - Exercise and Cancer |
04/10/2008 |
| Seeking and Finding a "Good Death" |
04/04/2008 |
| Diet, Exercise and Cancer - The American Cancer Society Nutrition and Exercise Guide - Part I - Nutrition and Cancer |
03/27/2008 |
| Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk: is there a role for anti-inflammatory therapy? |
03/13/2008 |
| Being Healthy and never exercising? It is possible! |
03/06/2008 |
| Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard University and The SETMA Foundation |
02/28/2008 |
| Black History: Remembering Great Black Men |
02/21/2008 |
| Physical Activity and Public Health in Older Adults: |
02/14/2008 |
| Preventive Health: Am I Receiving Excellent Care? |
02/07/2008 |
| Hypertension - Part II: Am I Receiving Excellent Care? |
01/31/2008 |
| Has Anyone Seen My Old Firend Martin? |
01/24/2008 |
| Hypertension - Part I: Am I Receiving Excellent Care? |
01/17/2008 |
| Judging the Quality of your healthcare provider's care of your diabetes |
01/10/2008 |
| Reformation - Resolution - Restoration - Redemption |
12/27/2007 |
| What Makes You a Human Being |
12/20/2007 |
| The Gift of Reconcilation: The Healthiest Act of your life |
12/13/2007 |
| Dare to Care Series Part I: Smart Food Choices |
12/06/2007 |
| Framing the Discussion of How to Solve the Nation's Health Care Problems |
11/29/2007 |
| Thanksgiving Day: The Health of Gratitude |
11/22/2007 |
| Lessons Learned From a Tree: Principles of Change to Improve Your Health |
11/15/2007 |
| Lessons from a Tree:Excellence in the Practice of Medicine; Excellence in Being a Patient |
11/08/2007 |
| Facing Death With The Worth of One's Life |
10/25/2007 |
| Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? Part IV |
10/18/2007 |
| Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? Part III |
10/11/2007 |
| Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? Part II |
10/04/2007 |
| Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? Part I |
09/27/2007 |
| Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women |
09/20/2007 |
| Physical Activity and Public Health - Part I |
09/06/2007 |
| Labor Day 2007: The Promise of a Simpler Time |
09/03/2007 |
| Facts About Hair Loss |
08/16/2007 |
| How to survive your hospital stay! |
08/09/2007 |
| Quantifying Global Cardiovascular Risk: American Heart Association Statement |
07/26/2007 |
| Learning Shema Target Theory Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors |
07/19/2007 |
| Universal Values and Muslim Democracy Part II |
07/12/2007 |
| Universal Values and Muslim Democracy Part I |
07/05/2007 |
| Healthcare Policy and Hope Part II |
06/28/2007 |
| Healthcare Policy and Hope |
06/21/2007 |
| Father's Day and Healthcare Policy: How Are They Related? |
06/14/2007 |
| Learning and Accidents - Changes which improve your heath |
05/17/2007 |
| It's Personal Now: West Nile Virus |
05/10/2007 |
| Is America's Health Care System "Sick"? |
04/19/2007 |
| Child Abuse: Recognize It and Respond |
04/12/2007 |
| Address to Freshman Weekend |
03/29/2007 |
| Prescription Drug Abuse Part III - Texas Medical Board Rule 170 |
03/22/2007 |
| Prescription Drug Abuse Part II Introduction continued |
03/15/2007 |
| Prescription Drug Abuse Part I Introduction |
03/08/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part XI - Healthy Eating: The Age of Nutrionism |
02/22/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part X: Inflammation Altered by Diet |
02/15/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part IX: Pro-inflammatory and Anti-inflammatory Diet |
02/08/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part VIII: C - Reactive Protein |
02/01/2007 |
| Designing an EMR Guided by The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge, PhD |
01/27/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part VII: Inflammation - chronic, low-grade |
01/25/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome: Part VI: Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor I |
01/18/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part V: Fibrinolytic Dysfunction |
01/11/2007 |
| Relating to Others with Dignity and Respect |
01/04/2007 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part IV: Endothelium Dysfunction |
12/28/2006 |
| Christmas Gifting |
12/21/2006 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part III: Pre-Diabetes |
12/14/2006 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part II: Insulin Resistance |
12/07/2006 |
| Cardiometabolic Risk Syndrome Part I: Introduction |
11/30/2006 |
| Gratitude: Exercise for the mind, the soul and the spirit |
11/23/2006 |
| Nostalgia for Smoking-days of Yore |
10/26/2006 |
| Summary of the 7Th Annual Gift of Life Health Forum: Smoking Cessation and Prevention |
10/20/2006 |
| Successful Weight Loss Using the Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load |
10/13/2006 |
| The Comfort of Grief: When there are no tears - There are memories |
10/05/2006 |
| Memories of Hurricane Rita and Mental Health |
09/21/2006 |
| American Heart Association Recommendations for Exercise |
09/14/2006 |
| American Heart Association 2006 Revised Dietary Recommendations |
09/07/2006 |
| Labor Day 2006: Protecting Our Prosperity by Protecting Those Who Produced It |
09/04/2006 |
Chronic Disease - Effects of Exercise and Diet - Part VII
Conclusions |
08/31/2006 |
Chronic Disease - Effects of Exercise and Diet - Part VI
Cancer |
08/24/2006 |
Chronic Disease - Effects of Exercise and Diet - Part V
Metabolic Syndrome |
08/17/2006 |
| Futile care-law Letter to the Editor |
08/16/2006 |
| Chronic Disease - Effects of Exercise and Diet - Part IV - Diabetes |
08/10/2006 |
| A Whimper - remembering the halcyon days of lead paint, asbestos, public smoking |
08/04/2006 |
| Chronic Disease - Effects of Exercise and Diet - Part III - Hypertension |
08/03/2006 |
| Chronic Disease - Effects of Exercise and Diet Part II - Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) |
07/27/2006 |
| Chronic Disease - Effects of Exercise and Diet - Part I |
07/20/2006 |
| Falls and Factures in the Elderly |
07/13/2006 |
| Sunscreen and Skin Cancer |
07/06/2006 |
| Celebration of Religious Freedom |
06/29/2006 |
| Improving Your Health at 75 - Part III |
06/22/2006 |
Father's Day, 2006
The Father and the Son |
06/15/2006 |
| Improving Your Health at 75 - Part II |
06/08/2006 |
| Improving Your Health at 75 - Part I |
06/01/2006 |
| Moderate Exercise: The Health Benefits Part II |
05/25/2006 |
| Moderate Exercise: The Health Benefits Part I |
05/18/2006 |
| Take The Pledge! Underage Alcohol Use |
05/11/2006 |
| Heart Disease Starts in the Very Young |
05/04/2006 |
| Omega 3 Fish Oil - The JELIS Study |
04/27/2006 |
| Influenza Pandemic Part III - Protection of my family |
04/20/2006 |
| Influenza Pandemics Part I: Definitions and Concepts |
04/13/2006 |
| Influenza Pandemics Part II - Assumptions in the HHS Plan for Dealing with a Pandemic |
04/13/2006 |
| National Cancer Institutes Statement on Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
04/06/2006 |
| Tobacco Response to the City Council Meeting Unable to attend the City Council meeting on March 21st |
04/03/2006 |
| Aerobic Units and Calorie Expenditure Exercising for Your Heart |
03/30/2006 |
| Summary and Comments Upon American Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Recommendations 2006 |
03/23/2006 |
| Banning Smoking In Public Places |
03/16/2006 |
| Exercise and Your Heart Part V |
03/02/2006 |
| Exercising the Heart Part IV: A Merry Heart as Medicine |
02/23/2006 |
| Exercise of the Heart Part III: Loving Others |
02/16/2006 |
| Spanning the Specialties to Bring You the Best Standards |
02/13/2006 |
| Exercise and Your Heart Part II |
02/09/2006 |
| Exercise and Your Heart Part I |
02/02/2006 |
| Exercise, Weight Loss and Fat |
01/26/2006 |
| Diets and Cardiovascular Disease |
01/11/2006 |
| A New Year's Resolution: Being Peculiar, Like My Father |
01/05/2006 |
| Don't Load Both Barrels - The Story of SETMA's Implementation of NextGen EMR and EPM |
12/08/2005 |
| Avian Flu: What is the Risk? |
12/01/2005 |
| Thanksgiving Day: Today - The Health of Gratitude |
11/24/2005 |
| Stress and Health |
11/17/2005 |
| Grief: Good Grief |
11/10/2005 |
| End of Life Decisions: Choices Which Make A Difference |
10/28/2005 |
| Southeast Texas Medical Associates earns prestigious national Davies Award of Excellence |
10/27/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part XIV - Gender - Part 2 |
09/29/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part XIII - Gender - Part 1 |
09/22/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part XV - Addendum: Questions and Answers About Estrogen Replacement and Heart Diesase |
09/22/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part XII - Insulin Resistance |
09/15/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part XI - Age |
09/08/2005 |
| Labor Day 2005 - Indecency of Exploiting Children |
09/05/2005 |
| Smoking Ban Appeal September 4, 2005 Beaumont Enterprise Letters to the Editor |
09/04/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part X - Psychosocial Stress |
09/01/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part IX - Family History |
08/25/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part VIII - C-Reactive Protein |
08/18/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part VII - Combined Factors which Begin in Childhood |
08/11/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part VI - Hypertension |
08/04/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Part V - Cholesterol |
07/28/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part IV - Smoking |
07/21/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part III - Obesity |
07/14/2005 |
| By Your Bedside 2005 |
07/07/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part II - Sedentary Life Style |
06/30/2005 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - Part I - Introduction |
06/23/2005 |
| Belonging to the Ages: Not Yet! |
06/19/2005 |
| Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor I: Why Should I Care? |
06/16/2005 |
| AHA's Statement on Exercies and Physical Activity: Part II |
06/09/2005 |
| AHA's Statement on Exercies and Physical Activity: Part I |
06/02/2005 |
| Trans-fatty acids and Heart Disease |
05/26/2005 |
| Mediterranean Diet and Your Heart -- Part II |
05/19/2005 |
| Mediterranean Diet and Your Heart -- Part I |
05/12/2005 |
| Fiber: What Is It and What Does It Do? |
05/05/2005 |
| Advanced Directive Act of Texas Part IV |
04/28/2005 |
| Summer Safety Tips |
04/22/2005 |
| Advanced Directive Act of Texas Part III |
04/21/2005 |
| Summer Camp and Your Kids |
04/15/2005 |
| Advanced Directive Act of Texas Part II |
04/14/2005 |
| Advanced Directive Act of Texas Part I |
04/07/2005 |
| SETMA to implement the HHS Quality Measures for hospitalized patients with heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia |
04/05/2005 |
| Women and Heart Disease Prevention |
03/31/2005 |
| Exercise: Progressive Resistance Training (PRT) and Health |
03/24/2005 |
| Less Initiative: SETMA's Initiative Confirmed by Medical Journals |
03/22/2005 |
| Health: Twelve Facts for Improving Your Health |
03/17/2005 |
| Less Initiative: Response to Letter to the Editor about Less Initiative Article |
03/13/2005 |
| LESS Initiative Beaumont Enterprise Letter to the Editor |
03/12/2005 |
| Hypertension: Part I Insulin Resistance and Oxidative Stress |
03/10/2005 |
| LESS Initiative: Response to Beaumont Enterprise Article on the Less Initiative |
03/08/2005 |
| LESS Initiative: Lose the smokes |
03/07/2005 |
| Hunger: Controlling Yours, How? |
03/03/2005 |
| Women and Heart Disease: Congestive Heart Failure |
03/01/2005 |
| Women and Heart Disease: Primary Prevention |
03/01/2005 |
| Women and Heart Disease: Testing Guidelines |
03/01/2005 |
| Women and Heart Disease: Hormone Usage |
03/01/2005 |
| Women and Heart Disease: Hormone Replacement Therapy |
03/01/2005 |
| Women and Heart Disease: It can be prevented! |
03/01/2005 |
| Hypertension: Pre-Hypertension -- What Is It? |
02/24/2005 |
| Diabetes Mellitus: Screening, Prevention, Care |
02/10/2005 |
| Oxidative Stress - What Can I Do About It? |
01/27/2005 |
| Oxidative Stress: Why is it important to me? |
01/20/2005 |
| Tobacco -- Appeal for Banning |
01/13/2005 |
| Health Improvement -- Beginning |
01/06/2005 |
| Medications: What Time of Day Should I take my medications? |
12/30/2004 |
| Hope: Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men |
12/23/2004 |
| Diabetes: Preventing Diabetes Mellitus |
12/16/2004 |
| Less Initiative: SETMA |
12/09/2004 |
| Alcohol and Brain Damage |
12/02/2004 |
| Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Your Health |
11/25/2004 |
| Thanksgiving: George Washington's Proclamation |
11/25/2004 |
| Health Illiteracy: Not Knowing What Your Doctor Said |
11/18/2004 |
| Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Arthritis |
11/11/2004 |
| Healthy Aging: Integrity and Wisdom |
11/04/2004 |
| Flu -- Can't Get the Shot? |
10/28/2004 |
| Healthy Aging -- Part IV |
10/21/2004 |
| Healthy Aging -- Part III |
10/14/2004 |
| Healthy Aging -- Part II |
10/07/2004 |
| Healthy Aging -- Part I |
09/30/2004 |
| The Honor of Being a Physician |
09/23/2004 |
| Obesity: Weight Loss - Medicine, Myths and Magic |
09/16/2004 |
| Tobacco: Not Smoking but Inhaling |
09/09/2004 |
| Labor Day 2004: The Honor and Nobility of Labor |
09/06/2004 |
| Obesity: How to Beat It |
09/02/2004 |
| Obesity: Getting Rid of Fat; Why Is It So Hard? |
08/26/2004 |
| Metabolic Syndrome: The Disharmonious Quartet |
08/19/2004 |
| By Your Bedside: Part III: Father's Illness |
08/12/2004 |
| By Your Bedside: Part II: Father's Illness |
08/05/2004 |
| By Your Bedside: Part I: Father's Illness |
07/29/2004 |
| Health and Hope - Value and Virtue |
07/15/2004 |
| Hypertension: Part V: Dash Diet Continued |
07/08/2004 |
| Hypertension: Part IV: The DASH Diet |
07/07/2004 |
| Hypertension: Part III: What Can I Do? - Continued |
06/24/2004 |
| Hypertension: Part II: What Can I Do? |
06/17/2004 |
| Hypertension: Part I: What is Your Hypertension IQ? |
06/10/2004 |
| Metabolic Syndrome: Part II |
06/03/2004 |
| Metabolic Syndrome: Part I: What is it and what can I do about it? |
05/27/2004 |
| Activities of Daily Living and Exercise: Walking For Health |
05/20/2004 |
| SETMA's Exercise Prescription: Part II |
05/13/2004 |
| I am not a fool; I hope: Seat Belts, Speed and Car wrecks |
05/06/2004 |
| SETMA’s Exercise Prescription: Part I |
04/29/2004 |
| Exercise: It's Never Too Late To Start |
04/22/2004 |
| Heart Evaluation: Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) |
04/15/2004 |
| Aging, Inactivity and Exercise |
04/08/2004 |
| Hunger - Fats and Favorite Foods |
04/01/2004 |
| Unintended Consequences: Commonly Used Medications and the Depletion of Important Nutrients |
03/25/2004 |
| My Personal Supplement Regimen |
03/18/2004 |
| Women and Vascular Disease: You, Me, Sisters, Moms and Grandmothers |
03/11/2004 |
| Obesity: Fat and Fit |
03/04/2004 |
| Physical Inactivity: The Consequences of Being a Couch Potato |
02/26/2004 |
| Exercise - Getting Started: Part III |
02/19/2004 |
| Exercise - Getting Started: Part II |
02/12/2004 |
| Exercise - Getting Started: Part I |
02/05/2004 |
| Salt, Sugar and Saturated Fats |
01/29/2004 |
| Aging Well: Part IX: Changing Your Basal Metabolism Rate |
01/22/2004 |
| Aging Well: Part VIII: Body Composition |
01/15/2004 |
| Water: It’s Crucial Role in Health |
01/08/2004 |
| Aging Well Part VII - Water - Its Crucial Role in Health |
01/08/2004 |
| New Year's Resolutions? Yes or No! |
01/01/2004 |
| A Wedding Message to My Son: A Resolution Worthy of a Vow |
01/01/2004 |
| Aging Well Part VI - Growth Hormone (HGH) |
01/01/2004 |
| Hope - The Foundation of Health |
12/25/2003 |
| Aging Well: Part V: Hormone Modulation -- Growth Hormone and Testosterone |
12/11/2003 |
| Aging Well: Part IV: Thanksgiving, Gratitude and Mental Health |
11/27/2003 |
| Aging Well: Part III: Basal Metabolism Rate |
11/20/2003 |
| Aging Well: Part II: Finding Out Where You Are - Body Composition |
11/13/2003 |
| Aging Well: Part I: A Matter of Changing and of Choices |
11/06/2003 |
| Glutathione and Oxidative Stress: Part III: Whey and Glutathione |
10/30/2003 |
| Glutathione-and-Oxidative-Stress: Part II |
10/23/2003 |
| Glutathione and Oxidative Stress: Part I |
10/17/2003 |
| Alpha Lipoic Acid |
10/03/2003 |
| Lipoic Acid and the Antioxidant Network |
09/25/2003 |
| Popeye and Spinach: The Cartoons Had It Right |
09/18/2003 |
| Omega 3 Oils: Part II: Eicosanoids |
09/11/2003 |
| Omega 3 Oils: Part I: Health Benefits |
09/04/2003 |
| Indole-3-Carbinol and Breast Cancer: Good Science, Good Medicine, Good Grief |
08/28/2003 |
| Health and Hope: The Ten Elements of Hope and How They Apply to our Health |
08/21/2003 |
| Hospice and Palliative Care |
08/14/2003 |
| Choosing Wisely: Decreasing Body Inflammation with Your Diet |
08/14/2003 |
| Cancer Prevention and Diet |
07/31/2003 |
| Childhood Nutrition: The Foundation for a Lifetime of Health |
07/24/2003 |
| Beyond the Glycemic Index - The Glycemic Load |
07/17/2003 |
| Blood Tests: What Do All These Laboratory Numbers Mean |
07/10/2003 |
| Healthy Eating: Comprehensive Plan for Your Life Part IV |
07/03/2003 |
| Healthy Eating: Comprehensive Plan for Your Life Part III |
06/26/2003 |
| Healthy Eating: Comprehensive Plan for Your Life Part II |
06/19/2003 |
| Medical Records: Evolving into Electronic Patient Management |
06/13/2003 |
| Healthy Eating: Comprehensive Plan for Your Life Part I |
06/12/2003 |
| Hyperinsulinemia: The Culprit in Many Maladies |
06/05/2003 |
| Medical Records: Beyond Electronic Medical Records |
06/01/2003 |
| Glycemic: Insulin - Friend or Foe? |
05/29/2003 |
| Women's Health - Self Care at Any Age |
05/22/2003 |
| A Healthy Woman is a Fit Woman |
05/01/2003 |
| Women’s Preventive Health Screenings: Colon Cancer, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, and Hyperlipidemia |
04/24/2003 |
| Healthcare in Southeast Texas |
04/23/2003 |
| Preventive Health Screening for Women: What to have When |
04/17/2003 |
| Women Need a Daily Dose of Health |
04/10/2003 |
| Steps to Good Health - Men and Women ages 21-64 |
04/03/2003 |
| Tanning....Beautiful (?) and Bad (!) |
03/27/2003 |
| The Benefits of Fatty Acids Part II |
03/20/2003 |
| Omega 3 Oils: Part III: Depression and Mental Health |
03/20/2003 |
| The Benefits of Fatty Acids: Part I |
03/13/2003 |
| A Salmon A Day May Keep The Doctor Away |
03/13/2003 |
| Trans Fats What Are They and Why Are They Dangerous? |
03/06/2003 |
| Healthcare: EMR only distantly related to 'real' electronic patient management |
02/20/2003 |
| Healthcare: Improving Health -- Overcoming Organizational Learning Disabilities |
02/13/2003 |
| Healthcare: Metanoia -- A Shift of Mind |
02/06/2003 |
| Happiness is The Best Medicine |
01/30/2003 |
| Obesity and Overweight: Summary of National Institutes of Health Report |
01/23/2003 |
| Nutritional Primer - Part III |
01/16/2003 |
| Nutritional Primer: Part II |
01/09/2003 |
| Nutritional Primer: Part I |
01/02/2003 |
| Broccoli - The Crown Jewel of Nutrition |
12/26/2002 |
| C-Reactive Protein and Your Heart |
12/19/2002 |
| Coumadin: The Story of a Drug |
12/05/2002 |
| Nutrtion: Essential Trace Elements |
11/28/2002 |
| Aging - What Can I Do? |
11/21/2002 |
| Alzheimer's Disease: Is There Anything You can Do? |
11/14/2002 |
| Depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder |
11/04/2002 |
| Green Tea - Healthy Choice for Preventive Health |
10/31/2002 |
| Nutrition: CoQ 10 What is it and what does it do? |
10/24/2002 |
| Exercise: Something Is Better Than Nothing |
10/03/2002 |
| Eating Right for your Heart and your Health: Glycemic Index -- Fiber -- Calories -- Fats |
09/26/2002 |
| Health: A Matter of Choices for Good Health |
09/19/2002 |
| A Personal Perspective |
09/12/2002 |
| Hypertension: Isolated Systolic |
08/22/2002 |
| SETMA's Seventh Anniversary Celebration |
08/01/2002 |
| Hormone Replacement Therapy |
07/25/2002 |
| West Nile Virus |
07/18/2002 |
| Thanksgiving, Liberty, Choices July 4, 2002 |
07/04/2002 |
| Depression: Diagnosing and Treating |
06/27/2002 |
| Health Cures: False Health Claims |
06/13/2002 |
| Colorectal Cancer: Screening |
06/06/2002 |
| Gastroesophageal Reflux: Practical Management of a Common, Challenging Disorder |
05/24/2002 |
| Cholesterol, Hypertension, Diabetes: The Silent Killers |
04/11/2002 |
| Medical Management of Smoking Cessation: How Your Doctor Can Help You Quit Smoking |
03/07/2002 |
| Migraines - What a Headache! |
02/28/2002 |
| Lab Tests: Why Are They Needed and What Do They Mean? |
02/21/2002 |
| Back Pain: Treatment of Low Back Pain |
02/14/2002 |
| Back Pain: Lumbar Disc Disease and Spinal Stenosis |
02/07/2002 |
| Menopause: Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Hormone Replacement Therapy |
01/31/2002 |
| Cholesterol: New Guidelines and Treatment Protocols |
01/03/2002 |
| Hope - Health for the Soul |
12/27/2001 |
| Faith and Health - Prayer and Healing |
11/15/2001 |
| Smallpox - What You Should Know |
11/01/2001 |
| Anthrax: Center For Disease Control Guidelines |
10/25/2001 |
| ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder |
10/11/2001 |
| So much information, so many experts, who to believe? |
09/21/2001 |
| Sleep Apnea: An Unrecognized Hazard in the Workplace |
09/06/2001 |
| Alzheimer's Disease: Part II: Causes and Treatments |
08/23/2001 |
| Alzheimer's Disease: Part I: What is it and How Do You Know If You have It? |
08/16/2001 |
| Black Mold: Part II |
05/24/2001 |
| Black Mold: Part I |
05/17/2001 |
| Women and Heart Disease: Fitness |
04/26/2001 |
| Women and Heart Disease |
04/19/2001 |
| Mitral Valve Prolapse |
04/05/2001 |
| Summertime Emergencies: Part II |
03/29/2001 |
| Summertime Emergencies: Part I |
03/22/2001 |
| Urinary Bladder Infections in Children |
03/08/2001 |
| Constipation - What is It and How Can I Get Rid of It? |
02/22/2001 |
| Obesity: Weight Reduction |
02/15/2001 |
| Meningitis: New Caney, Crosby, Mauriceville - Close to Home! Should I Be Worried? |
02/08/2001 |
| Medical Records: Is it Secure? |
01/24/2001 |
| Medical Records: What Should it Contain? |
01/18/2001 |
| Flu: What is the Flu? |
12/28/2000 |
| Weak Eyes and Strong Eyes |
12/21/2000 |
| Heart Disease: Managing Cardiac Risk Factors |
12/14/2000 |
| Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Indigent Drug Programs |
12/07/2000 |
| Allergic Rhinitis:The Dread of Southeast Texas |
11/30/2000 |
| Faith: Medcine for the Mind,Soul and Spirit |
11/23/2000 |
| Hypertension: Salt and Syndrome X |
11/16/2000 |
| Fiber: The Forgotten Factor |
11/02/2000 |
| Nutrition: Vital Facts About Vitamins |
10/26/2000 |
| SETx Healthcare Issues Facing Southeast Texas |
08/24/2000 |
| Managed Care and Electronic Patient Records |
05/11/2000 |
| The Nurturing of a Wife: An Open Letter to My Son on the Eve of His Wedding |
06/03/1999 |
| More Than a Transcription Service: Revolutionizing the Practice of Medicine: And Meeting the Challenge of Managed Care With Electronic Medical Records (EMR) which Evolves into Electronic Patient Management |
05/01/1999 |
| Labor Day 1998: Thoughts About Things - The Lottery or Labor |
09/03/1998 |
| Thoughts About Things - The Holocaust |
01/08/1998 |
