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Messenger Post Article on our Medical Home!

Medical home uses technology to improve care By JULIE SHERWOOD Messenger Post Posted May 07, 2012 @ 10:22 AM MPNnow.com — When Heather Carson saw the rash on her newborn baby’s skin she worried it was serious.  “As a new mother, I am a little nervous,” said the first-time mom from Canandaigua. She wasn’t ...

Patients’ health dramatically improves in first two years of medical home initiative

Patients’ health dramatically improves in first two years of medical home initiative Rochester, NY – Patients involved in one of Rochester’s first medical home projects have dramatically improved their health in the first two years of the program. Data shows that patients are better managing chronic conditions ...

Introducing … Finger Lakes Virtual Care!

Virtual Care is now a reality at Finger Lakes Family Care! We are calling our new service Finger Lakes Virtual Care and are now offering telemedicine services to our patients as well as our colleagues and consulting physicians. Our exam rooms are now equipped with state of the art teleprescence software and high ...

How to Make Your Office Visit More Productive

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent May 26, 2011 7:04 a.m. EDT This is your health we’re talking about. Other calls can wait. Turn the thing off. (CNN) — As much as she would like to, Dr. Lissa Rankin, a gynecologist, will never forget the woman who planned her wedding while lying naked on ...

Doctor uses new technology to connect with hospital’s patients and specialists

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Having families see the new baby!

How about having an easy way for a patient to signup and authorize having their family members schedule a time to just “drop in” to a secure virtual consult room, but the “room” is MOBILE, and available to be accessed from a Tablet (Xoom or iPad for example) or a mobile workstation on wheels, or [...]

Alcohol Boosts Risk of Cancer

Drinking alcohol, especially above the recommended upper limits, boosts the risk of several cancers, according to a new European study published in the British Medical Journal this week. The study followed hundreds of thousands of people in eight European countries (Italy, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Greece, ...

What Is A Cough? What Causes A Cough?

A cough, also known as tissus is a sudden reflex humans and many animals have to clear the throat and breathing passage of foreign particles, microbes, irritants, fluids and mucus – it is a rapid expulsion of air from the lungs. Coughing can be done deliberately or involuntarily. There are three phases to a ...

Virtual Care by NowDox

Virtual Care has arrived in 2011! By using online communications such as simple instant messaging through Google Talk and Video conferencing through Vidyo and GoToMeeting, Finger Lakes Family Care is proud to become a flagship practice for the use of NowDox’s virtual care tools. Virtual Care is about receiving ...

Virtual Care Presentation by Dr. Andrew Barbash