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ON THE COVER
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FE ATURES
THROUGH UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO
QUALITY AND STRONG COLLABORATIVE
RELATIONSHIPS, NEPHROLOGY ASSOCIATES OF
SYRACUSE PC REMAINS AT THE FOREFRONT OF
AN EVOLVING FIELD 6
A practice model that encourages multispecia lty care is a
key to ensuring the highest standards of care in a rapidly
evolving landscape.
BRINGING PERSONALIZED HEALTH CARE HOME 10
Providing tailored in-home care to Centra l New York
prevents rehospita lizations and a llows patients to grow old
in the environment in which they feel most comfortable.
BETTER TOGETHER: PARTNERING WITH
CLINICIANS ON CLINICAL INTEGRATION 16
Physicians and other practitioners should be heavily involved
in hospita ls' and hea lth systems' discussions regarding
clinica l integration or consolidation if those e•orts are to
succeed, experts say.
PROTECTING PATIENT INFORMATION IN A
FACEBOOK WORLD 20
The possibilities for improper release of protected hea lth
information have multiplied as freewheeling socia l media
have become a more ingrained part of the culture.
DEPARTMENTS
HEALTHCARE PERSPECTIVES 5
MEANINGFUL USE 12
DATA VAULT 13
LEGAL EASE 14
MEDICAL BRIEFS 18
THORACIC SURGERY 19
BUSINESS OF MEDICINE 22
(Cover photo, shown L–R) Simardeep Mangat, MD;
Adebowale Oguntola, MD; Matthew Chaffin, MD; Anne
Zaccheo, MBA; Bala Murthy, MD; Philip Ondocin, MD
