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  • SETMA to implement the HHS Quality Measures for hospitalized patients with heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia Complete Article
  • SETMA's Preventive Health Initiative confirmed by medical journals Complete Article
Information on the EMR and EMP Initiatives at SETMA
  • Beyond Electronic Medical Records: The Hope and Promise of Electronic Patient Management - Complete Paper
  • Revolutionizing the Practice of Medicine And Meeting the Challenge of Managed Care With Electronic Medical Records (EMR) which Evolves into Electronic Patient Management - Complete Paper
  • Healthcare Issues Facing Southeast Texas in the Twenty-first Century - Complete Paper
  • More Than a Transcription Service: Reorganizing the Practice of Medicine With Computerized Patient Records (CPR) - Complete Paper
Beaumont Enterprise article on LESS Initiative and Corrosponding "Letters to the Editor"
  • Beaumont Enterprise; March 7, 2005: Frontpage article about the LESS Initiative at SETMA - Complete Article
  • Dr. Holly's letter to the editor in response to the article "LESS Initiative: Lose the smokes" - Complete Article
  • March 12, 2005 Letter to the Editor about Becky Bowman's March 7, 2005 article on SETMA's Less Initiative - Complete Article
  • Dr. Holly's response to March 12, 2005 Letter to the Editor about Becky Bowman's March 7, 2005 article on SETMA's Less Initiative - Complete Article
SETMA and NextGen partner to provide the best
Typically, physicians, nurses, medical transcriptionists and hospital staff members spend many of their waking moments recording and carefully filing information about patients they have treated. Read here to learn how SETMA has partnered with NextGen to change this trend.
SETMA Wins Microsoft Clinic of the Year!
Microsoft Healthcare Users Group and Microsoft Announce SETMA the winners Of the 2003 MS-HUG Annual Award for Microsoft Clinic of the Year.
Physician Practice Magazine names SETMA the Southwest Regional Practice of the Year.

Physician Practice Magazine -- the largest business journal directed at the practicing physician -- has named
Southeast Texas Medical Associates at the Southwest Regional Practice of the Year. SETMA will be featured in the November-December issue of Physician Practice Magazine.

SETMA invited to Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement

Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, a joint project of the AMA, CMS, National Institute of Medicine and all Medical and Surgical Specialty Societies has invited SETMA to incorporate the Consortium's Performance Measurement Sets into daily use to prove that they work.

Dr. Holly has made presentations at numerous meetings sponsored by CMS and the AMA to demonstrate SETMA's utilization of these tools for the improvement of the health care Southeast Texans are receiving. SETMA's advancements in the use of performance measures was featured in Health Affairs.

SETMA is proud to announce James L. Holly, MD, its CEO and Managing Partner has been named to the following National Committees:
  • AMA Board of Trustees, Electronic Health Record (EHR) Work Group
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service's (CMS) Electronic Performance Measures Meeting
  • U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Work Group on the development of the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)
  • National Advisory Committee of the NextGen Corporation