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Summit Medical Group is a physician-owned, for-profit, multispecialty medical practice headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. It was founded in 1929 by William H. Lawrence, MD, and Maynard G. Bensley, MD as The Diagnostic Group of Summit. It expanded to a second location in 1950. In 2003, Summit Medical Group signed a lease for a 42-acre office complex in Murray Hill, New Jersey that formerly housed the D&B Corporation.〔(New York Times. Murray Hill Office Park to Become Medical Campus. June 15, 2003. )〕 Summit Medical Group now includes a total of 11 satellite offices in Bayonne, Millburn, Morristown, Short Hills, Summit, Warren, and Westfield, New Jersey.〔(Summit Medical Group Locations )〕 Summit Medical Group treats approximately 55,000 patients per month,〔(New Jersey Jewish News. Good Medicine. March 3, 2011 )〕 and offers approximately 70 specialties, with 250 doctors and other medical practitioners. Summit Medical Group employs more than 1200 people. Its annual revenue is approximately $200 million.〔(Summit Medical Group Annual Report ).〕 Summit Medical Group was listed among New Jersey’s fastest growing companies in 2008,〔(NJBIZ ). New Jersey’s Fastest Growing Companies 2008〕 2009,〔(NJBIZ. New Jersey’s Fastest Growing Companies 2009 )〕 and 2010.〔(NJ BIZ. New Jersey’s Fastest Growing Companies 2010 )〕 It is a NJBIZ 2010 Corporate Citizen of the Year Award finalist〔(Independent Press. Summit Medical Group named finalist in Corporate Citizen of the Year program. December 13, 2010 )〕 and it earned the 2010 Communitas Leadership Award.〔(Communitas Leadership Award )〕 ==Research and care management== * In 2002, Summit Medical Group began a multiyear project to implement practice-wide electronic health records (EHR). By 2007, it was completely paperless〔(Medill Reports. Allscripts-Misys pitches its own electronic records 'stimulus plan' to physicians. February 25, 2010 )〕 * Summit Medical Group developed a "Diabetes Live Well Program," which has helped get 19% of its diabetes patients A1c levels under control – a figure that compared favorably with US national average A1c controls of 9%〔(Doctor's Digest. Measurement Strategies and Tools. July, 2010. )〕 In June 2008, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) awarded it an Education Recognition Certificate for the diabetes program〔(Inside Healthcare. Summit Medical Group: Integrated Care. September 1, 2009. )〕 * In 2009, Summit Medical Group extended the use of electronic health records across the practice. It also implemented a practice-wide clinical decision support (CDS) system that established quality care metrics for each of its physicians in every location〔(CMIO Magazine. Summit Medical Group: Beyond Alerts: Linking CDS to Evidence-Based Medicine. July 27, 2010. )〕 * In September 2009, Summit Medical Group released "Coordination of Multidisciplinary Resources for Vaccination of Egg-allergic Individuals During an H1N1 (Novel) Influenza Pandemic," a study showing the benefits of H1N1 immunization and the safety of vaccines for egg-allergic patients.〔(Independent Press. Summit Medical Group study demonstrates H1N1 vaccine can be given safely to those with egg allergies. September 7, 2010. )〕 (Source: Independent Press) * In January 2011, Summit Medical Group formed an Accountable care organization (ACO) in anticipation of US federal health care law〔(Newark Star-Ledger. A Shift In Focus For Med System. January 24, 2011. )〕 * As of July 2011, Summit Medical Group has enrolled patients in clinical trials for allergy, asthma, diabetes, gout, and oncology. Its oncology trials include studies for breast cancer, colorectal cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphoma, prostate cancer, and rheumatoid arthritis〔(Summit Medical Group Clinical Trials )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Summit Medical Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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