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Project Echo, Google+, Patient Education, and a Patient Centered Medical Home.

Project Echo, Google+, Patient Education, and a Patient Centered Medical Home.

What happens when you ask a social media manager for a Patient Centered Medical Home to write about Project Echo®?  You just might get a strange collection of thoughts drawn into a single blog post.  Ready? Last month, I sat in on a Project Echo videoconference where experts in Hepatitis C spoke with medical providers around the country about challenging cases.  See the Project ECHO Blog post for details.  Yesterday, the Discovery Channel filmed parts of the videoconference and I…

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National Childhood Obesity Month

National Childhood Obesity Month

National Childhood Obesity Month: Something that needs to be addressed during EVERY month of the year! Living life in the eyes of a child does not include daily calorie counting, cardio exercise, and always eating your vegetables.  Things like this didn’t seem vital when it came to raising children half a century ago, but the reality of today’s society is highlighting the importance of teaching children to eat healthy and get a daily dose of exercise. In 2010, President Obama…

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Men’s Health

Men’s Health

Sunday is Father’s Day, so this week is Men’s Health Week and this month is Men’s Health Month.  Now men’s health isn’t an issue just for fathers, all men should pay more attention to their health.  Right now, women live an average of about four years longer than men in the United States.  Some of this may be because women are more likely to visit doctors for annual examinations and preventative services than men.  In the Patient Files, CHC recommends…

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National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Well, it has been a long month with a lot going on, so I’ve put off things that I’m not excited about until the last minute.  I guess that is something we all do, especially people over fifty.  You see, this month is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month which serves as a reminder to get a colonoscopy.  Over 30% of Connecticut residents over 50 have never been screened for colon cancer and colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer…

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Pollen Count Soars! (In Georgia… Coming Soon to Connecticut)

Pollen Count Soars! (In Georgia… Coming Soon to Connecticut)

Channel 11 out of Atlanta is running an article that starts Tuesday’s pollen is the worst it has been all year long as levels have almost tripled since Monday.  The latest pollen count is 2258, which puts the count into the extremely high category.  The worst contributing factors are Ash, Birch, Mulberry and Oak pollen. Pollen count is typically the number of grains of pollen per cubic meter of air, and 2258 is very high.   WebMD’s map of Today’s Overall…

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Winter Blues and Other Stress

Winter Blues and Other Stress

Monday morning was dark and rainy.  The melting snow added to the problems as flooding started to spread across parts of Connecticut.  It seemed like just about everyone I was talking with was having a rough day. Was it just because it was a rainy Monday, or were there other things in play, like Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?  The latest Patient Resource File explores SAD and what people can do about it. Friends have suggested that I might suffer from…

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