On this week’s Conversations on Health Care, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Bill Crounse, Sr. Director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft. Dr. Crounse is an expert on the intersection of health and information technology. He discusses ways new technological developments are helping to revolutionize the delivery of health care, both here at home and globally.
Amidst all the fanfare about CHC kicking off Project ECHO® in Connecticut and the discussions about innovative use of telemedicine to improve health outcomes, it could be easy to lose focus on what truly matters, the patient. Yet CHC is a Patient Centered Medical Home, which is more than just a nice title added to the website, and the patient centered aspect shone through in the first Project ECHO teleconference. Yes, there were the introductory speeches, the photographers and the…
One thing that attracted me to CHC was its commitment to innovation and training the next generation of health care providers. They go hand in hand. As new innovations are discovered staff needs to learn about them and you wouldn’t want to train the next generation of health care providers on old approaches that are no longer considered a best practice. CHC has several important programs to help accomplish these goals, like the Weitzman Symposium, and the Conversations on Health…
The following is a guest post from Dr. Marwan Haddad MD, MPH, Medical Director of HIV, HCV, and Buprenorphine Services at Community Health Center, Inc. This Friday January 20th is the launch of the very cutting edge, state of the art, evidence-based program CHC Project ECHO® Hepatitis C/HIV. Project ECHO® stands for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes and is a model that was developed at the University of New Mexico initially to extend Hepatitis C care and management to the…
Conversations speaks this week with Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Institute and author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care. Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Topol about the pivotal role genomics and telemedicine is having on health care, and the potential for a health care revolution with these emerging technologies.
The following is a blog post by Diana Desmornes, an AmeriCorps Member working out of our Fairfield County Offices. On Saturday January 14, 2012, CHC AmeriCorps members joined the Stamford Community to honor Dr. King’s Legacy. We participated in a variety of community service projects, ranging from helping at soup kitchens and homeless shelters to playing bingo with the elderly. We were not only encouraged to honor him through community service; we were also reminded, not too long ago, blacks…