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September/October 2014 | Volume 99 | No. 5 NORTHERN OHIO PHYSICIAN THE VOICE OF PHYSICIANS IN NORTHERN OHIO 1Celebrating90 ANNIVERSARY IyearsSSUE ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE ADDRESS 44131-0999 OH Cleveland, Ste. 440 Ste. 6100 Oak Tree Blvd. Blvd. Tree Oak 6100 AMCNO MyPractice Community.SM A practice-tested EMR solution. By physicians, for physicians. Software Upgrades System Training Help Desk Learn more ccf.org/mpc Cleveland Clinic offers same-day appointments. 2 NORTHERN OHIO PHYSICIAN ■ September/October 2014 2652-14 CCECC 2014 eCC Campaign 8.5x11_V1-99.indd 1 8/1/14 3:17 PM JOB NUMBER & COMPONENT Prepared by: CREATIVE DEPARTMENT Approval Initials Date AEs Client: Cleveland Clinic DELIVERABLES: 2652-14 CCECC 2014 eCC Campaign 8.5X11_V1-99 Copywriter Division: eCleveland Clinic Laser 1370 W 6th St, 3rd floor Project: 2014 eCC Campaign CD - Copy PUBLICATION or MEDIUM Cleveland, OH 44113 Flat Size: 0” x 0” Comp 216.574.9100 NORTHERN OHIO PHYSICIAN Trim Size: 8.5” x 11” Designer/AD PDF Live Area: 7.75” x 10” CD - Design PDF (No Slug) INSERTION DATE Bleed: 9” x 11.5” JPG Line Screen: 150 Quality 09.01.14 Assurance COLOR: Flash Proofreader Production Notes: 4 Color BW Native Files 2 Color Other Production IMAGE: AE Low Res Hi Res Retouched Purchased FINAL APPROVAL Approved Retouched Approved ANNIVERS190ARY ISSUE President’s Corner As indicated throughout this special edition of the Northern Ohio Physician magazine, after serving physicians and their patients for nearly two centuries, the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio (AMCNO) is celebrating its 190th anniversary this year. Our organization represents over 5000 year, we will look to build on recent successes. physicians in the Greater Cleveland and Our focus will include current legislation Northern Ohio region. The Academy has a addressing the opiate abuse epidemic as well strong heritage in advancing the interests and as monitoring other legislative areas that needs of our profession and our patients; and involve potential tort reform challenges, it is my distinct honor to serve as the AMCNO scope-of-practice and regulatory matters. president. I look forward to a successful year as we continue to meet new challenges, some Community Outreach James M. Coviello, M.D., anticipated and others not, in an ever- The Academy remains actively involved with AMCNO President 2014-2015 changing and complex healthcare landscape. community and patient outreach programs as part of our mission to promote greater access Areas of focus for the AMCNO will continue to quality care for every citizen in our region for Health Affairs and Better Health Greater to include Professional Development, and state. We are actively engaged with Cleveland. Through our membership and Legislative Action, Community Outreach, organizations including the Cuyahoga Health collaborative work, the Academy has Patient Care/Physician-Patient Relationship, Access Partnership (CHAP), MedWorks, and established strong relationships with our and Organizational Networking. the Northeast Ohio Patient Navigator region’s major health systems. We hope to Collaborative (NEOPNC). We look forward to further develop these relationships in areas Professional Development continuing our involvement with these and that promote the goals of the Academy, As we all know, ours is a profession that other regional patient assistance organizations. particularly those that uphold the core values requires lifelong learning to provide of our profession and the best interest of our appropriate, advanced patient care. Given the Patient Care/Physician-Patient patients. complex environment within which we Relationship practice, each physician also needs a broader Our profession continues to experience a This coming year, we will continue the strong awareness of professional matters beyond changing landscape in the healthcare work of the Academy for the betterment of patient care. AMCNO continues to provide environment. We are in the midst of an our profession and our patients. There will be numerous opportunities for its members to unprecedented evolution of patient care new issues that arise and challenges to face. remain up-to-date on various topics. management. Technological advances are But, I know that the Academy, with its Educational seminars as well as our changing not only how we directly interact leadership and active involvement of its publication, Northern Ohio Physician, offer with patients through electronic medical membership, will continue to succeed and rise timely updates and reviews for our members. records (EMR) but also remotely through to every challenge. Our organization will Other events such as the annual AMCNO/ patients’ personal health records, telemedicine continue to strive to preserve the integrity of CMBA Medical Legal Summit have brought and ambulatory clinical monitoring. We will our profession as well as the appropriate care together physicians and attorneys as we all need to ensure that these new advances for our patients as we help shape the future of strive to work more collaboratively to improve maintain the highest standard of patient care, healthcare in our region, our state and our our mutual care for patients and clients. while also improving physician efficiency in nation. The work starts with each and every providing that care. We continue to recognize one of us. I welcome all of your support and Legislative Action that the patient-physician relationship is the efforts in the coming year as we work The Academy continues to have a strong track essence of our profession and will strive to together to achieve these goals. record in regional, state and national preserve its sanctity. legislative matters, often taking a lead role in And congratulations to the AMCNO on identifying and addressing key issues affecting Organizational Networking reaching this incredible milestone! our physician members and their patients. Our AMCNO has worked closely with other collaborative work with other organizations, organizations in the past year, including the James M. Coviello, M.D. agencies and interest groups has been State Medical Board of Ohio and the Ohio AMCNO President, 2014-15 ■ influential in shaping legislation to best serve State Medical Association. We have played our patients and profession. In the coming active roles in other groups such as the Center NORTHERN OHIO PHYSICIAN ■ September/October 2014 3 RELENTLESS WE ARE UNRELENTING IN OUR DEFENSE OF GOOD MEDICINE We stand with doctors. When shady litigants challenge the good name of one of our members, we are fi erce and uncompromising. Our powerful attorneys have well-earned reputations for unyielding defense and aggressive counter-action. Our relentless defense of the practice of good medicine is just one of the reasons we are the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, with 75,000 members. Join your colleagues—become a member of The Doctors Company. CALL OUR COLUMBUS OFFICE AT 800.666.6442 OR VISIT WWW.THEDOCTORS.COM DEFENSE A5037_NoOhioPhysician_RD_Def_072914_v2.indd 1 7/31/14 10:18 AM 4 NORTHERN OHIO PHYSICIAN ■ September/October 2014 Excerpt from the Executive By Elayne R. Biddlestone, EVP/CEO Over the course of my long career at the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio (AMCNO) it has been absolutely wonderful to work with all of the physicians who are part of this stellar organization. I have had the distinct privilege of working 1with physicians who90 give freely of their time, on a volunteer basis, to affect change in the practice of medicine and the Northern Ohio community. The strength of the AMCNO is the result of AMCNO must strategically maneuver to play a an exceptional cooperation between physician strong role and serve as a major force in the volunteers and AMCNO staff. However, the decision-making processes as they occur. The credit for all of the achievements of the AMCNO continues to expand its reach and Elayne R. Biddlestone, EVP/CEO AMCNO belongs not to me but to the many provide members with the data and fine physicians who have been involved in information necessary to address the many positions of AMCNO leadership. As I think changes going on in medicine today. The back over the many physician members with AMCNO membership is greater than some whom I have worked, I am again impressed state medical societies and we are one of the members for giving me the opportunity to with their ability, interest and involvement. largest regional medical associations in the work with all of you over these many years. These physicians have earned the respect of country. Your leadership, therefore, has had a their colleagues for their exceptional work tremendous impact upon medicine, not only in And finally, congratulations to the AMCNO— both professionally and organizationally. They the region but in the state of Ohio and on a celebrating 190 years of organized medicine in have been the true leaders of the AMCNO. national level as well. Northern Ohio! ■ There are a multitude of complex issues facing It is truly an honor and a privilege to serve as physicians in today’s rapidly changing the Executive Vice President/CEO of the healthcare environment—issues in which the AMCNO and I thank all of the physician Home Healthcare Hospice Home Assist™ Visiting Nurse Association of Ohio congratulates THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF CLEVELAND & NORTHERN OHIO PHYSICIANS on 190 years of service and dedication to the community. Refer your patients today, call 216-931-1400 or 1-877-698-6264 For caregiver support and resources, visit VNAohio.org NORTHERN OHIO PHYSICIAN ■ September/October 2014 5 AMCNO Celebrates 190 Years of Organized Medicine After serving physicians and their patients for nearly two centuries, the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio (AMCNO) is celebrating its 190th anniversary this year. Institutions, like people, have “family trees.” licensing physicians, but the number of licensing would-be physicians. On April 7, The AMCNO genealogy started in 1824, with districts had been changed several times until 1859, the 19th District Medical Society the founding of the 19th Medical District of February 26, 1824, when 20 districts were reorganized as the Cuyahoga County Medical Ohio.