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By Catherine Hill

Selection – the Purchase Experience

Dr. Jim Shaughnessy, who is Chief of the VA Hospital Dental Clinic, and his wife Karen have relied on The Door Store and Windows for quality doors and windows – twice. The first time was in 2004 when they selected The Door Store & Windows to install windows and a door in a new room addition in their home near Seneca Park. The second time, in May 2010, they had been so pleased with The Door Store and Windows’s previous work on the room addition that they went back to The Door Store and Windows to install 22 new  replacement windows throughout the original part of the house.

Dr. John Glaser, Chairman of the Healthcare CIO SmartBrief

For most providers data has been a secondary consideration. Data is often seen as less worthy of investment than areas such as equipment, buildings and IT support of clinical, operations and finance processes. Most IT discussions center on applications, with the focus of the application being improvements in important processes such as ordering tests or scheduling a patient.

Process improvements and investments in buildings and equipment will always be important. However, the management of data deserves the same level of importance. Increased accountability for care performance and interoperable electronic health records will lead to data graduating from the kid’s table to the adult’s table at Thanksgiving.

By Eric Gunderson, CEO, Valeo Communications

Technically Speaking. By Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews staff. Posted April 26, 2010.

The number of people using personal health records has doubled in the past year. But those users still account for only 7% of the American patient population, according to one recent survey.

That survey also found that if patients are going to be pushed toward greater PHR adoption by anyone, it’s going to be by the health care system representatives they trust the most — their physicians.

By Christian R. Cox, JD, moloney + o’neil commercial insurance & surety 

Add identity thieves to the long list of crooks targeting doctors and their patients.  Identity theft, and especially medical records identity theft, is the fastest growing crime in America.  Every day, new evidence of this escalating crime wave is brought to light:

• April 7, 2010, Phoenix, AZ: “Man charged with posing as fertility doctor to molest people.” A man allegedly stole the identity of a Scottsdale, Arizona physician so he could sexually molest people while pretending to give them physical examinations. The man is facing similar charges in California, where he’s accused of stealing the identity of a San Francisco doctor and posing as a “Dr. Richardson” at a Los Angeles clinic.

By Andre Wilson, President/CEO, Style Icon Image Consulting

Demanding career, working mom, devoted wife, entrepreneur and when fortune smiles on her…just one of the girls attending a much needed GNO; these are the many facets that comprise the life of Jill Howell-Berg, M.D. . Each situation, venue, and audience requires its own look, wardrobe and feeling of empowerment. This is what would allow her to communicate her best attributes and strengths in seconds.  Never again would she dawdle in the mirror speculating if this is the right look or and settle on a look that at its best is mundane.

Special to Valeo Magazine from the Kentucky Department of Travel & Tourism

Museums and history centers in the Louisville area offer plenty to see and do within day-trip distance of the metro area. Here are a few examples:

The Frazier International History Museum in downtown Louisville features the flintlock rifle of President George Washington, the “Big Stick” of President Theodore Roosevelt, the bow attributed to the Apache warrior Geronimo and General George Armstrong Custer’s ivory-handled Colt revolvers. Located at 829 W. Main St., the Frazier is within walking distance of the Louisville Slugger Museum, the Louisville Science Center, the Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft and the Muhammad Ali Center. 502-753-5663 or www.frazierarmsmuseum.org.

By Shane Pearson, Co-Owner, Dwellings

The emerging trend in design is perhaps the most interesting for some time.  For the last decade our homes have been designed for external validation.  A booming property market and a general culture of conformist consumption have driven us to limit our choices to the lowest common denominator.  Encouraged to make design choices which could be easily referenced and said as little as possible about us, we forget the emotional connection required to turn a house into a home.

By Ann Gregory & Laurie Scarborough, Co-Owners, The Door Store and Windows, Louisville, KY

When a sick economy takes a sudden turn for the worse, as it did in the 2008-2009 recession, your investments can take a long time to recover. Experts may know how the market went bad, but they don’t have a quick cure.

Your home is traditionally among the most secure assets in your portfolio. But it, too, has probably lost value in recent years. Could physical therapy help improve your financial picture? You might be surprised at the answer to that question. In some cases it’s a very big “yes.”