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By BECKy GILLETTE

CROSSETT – One of the best strategies for helping fill critical shortages of physicians in rural areas of the state is to “grow your own.” Bradley Jefferson Walsh, MD, chief of staff at the Ashley County Medical Center (ACMC), is a perfect ex-ample of that. He grew up in Crossett hunting, fishing, and enjoying the great outdoors living in a county with two National Wildlife Refuges.

After graduation from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) School of Medi-cine in 2006 and completion of a family practice residency at the Area Health Education Center in Pine Bluff in 2009, it was a natural fit for this Natural State native to come back home.

Walsh grew up in medicine as the son of fam-ily practitioner Benjamin Walsh, MD. Today the two practice across the hall from each other

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Nanotechnology Showing Promise for Multiple Diseases UAMS laser-based device has wide ranging implications for cancer research, diagnosis and treatment

Rarely does a new medical device show promise across broad areas of disease diagnosis and treatment ranging from cancer to cardiovascular disease, stroke and infections ... 4

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By BECKy GILLETTE

One of the more frustrating aspects for some healthcare provid-ers in adopting Health Information Technology (HIT) is that in some cases the adoption of HIT has resulted in more paperwork than in the past. Even providers in the same town using the same vendor end up having to fax Electronic Health Record (EHR) information if their systems are not set up to share information electronically.

Fortunately, there is a solution. Al-lowing easy sharing of health informa-tion between different hospitals, clinics and physicians is the mission of the State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE), which has been working to coordinate HIT activities throughout Arkansas and in neighboring states.

SHARE allows care teams to coor-dinate patient care with other provid-ers to share critical information about patients to the entire care coordination team across all stages of care.


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Alan Wilson, MDImmediate Past President of the Arkansas Medical Society

By BECKy GILLETTE

CROSSETT – Alan Wilson, MD, has plenty of demands on his time being a general surgeon practicing in rural Arkan-sas where all types of doctors, including surgeons, are scarce. He is also married with five children. But Wilson has found time to take on volunteer responsibilities as president of the Arkansas Medical So-ciety (AMS), a group established in 1875 that represents 4,300 physicians in the state.

Wilson’s goals during his term as president include helping physicians come together to navigate the rapid changes in healthcare with the reforms brought about by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). No one is completely satisfied with the ACA, but the AMS strongly advocated the ex-tension of private health insurance cover-age to working families earning below 138 percent of the federal poverty level.

“Here in Crossett and Ashley County, the Medicaid expansion has re-ally helped because we previously had a significant number of uninsured patients, and now we don’t see nearly as many,” Wilson said. “Before, patients without healthcare coverage delayed seeing phy-sicians for health problems. If we can see patients earlier on in the progression of their disease, and prevent serious com-plications later, we are improving health overall. There is less of a drain on the medical system in general because costs are lower. For employers, they have healthier employees with increased pro-ductivity, and less sick time.”

Wilson said in the past his surgery schedule used to be slower in January and February. But this year, thanks to more insured patients, the clinic stays busy even in the dead of winter.

There are concerns about people who abuse the system, and visit the doctor too often. But Wilson, who has 22 years of ex-perience as a surgeon, said that can hap-pen regardless of the patient’s insurance status.

Other priorities during his term as president include advocating for respon-sible and practical reforms such as patient-centered medical homes and establishing a prescription drug monitoring program to combat abuse and diversion of prescrip-tion drugs. AMS members have also been successful advocating the establishment of a statewide trauma system and passage of the Clean Indoor Air Act.

Wilson grew up in Houston, Texas, and knew from an early age that he wanted to be not just a physician, but a surgeon. That inspiration came to him in sixth grade when his school nurse took his class to the Texas Medical Center to watch open heart surgery.

“I can still remember them lifting the lungs up so we could see, and I knew then I wanted to be a surgeon,” Wilson said. “I was enjoying myself so much. It was fascinating. From that age on, becoming a surgeon was my goal. I made sure I took the right classes, and got good grades.”

Wilson attended medical school at the University of Texas Branch at Galves-ton, Texas, and did his surgical residency in Detroit, Mich. For a couple of years he worked for a group practice in Corsi-cana, Texas, which is near Houston. His goal was to be in private practice, and he wanted to live in a small town. So when the opportunity came up to go into prac-tice in Crossett, he didn’t hesitate.

“I’ve been working my way down to smaller places,” Wilson said. “They were building a new hospital, they needed a surgeon, and I jumped at the opportunity. We have been here 17 years.”

Many physicians prefer living in big cities, but Wilson said they are only a six-hour drive from Houston, and the Inter-net means you don’t have to be isolated from the world living in a small town.

Wilson has been married to Steph-anie Wilson for 32 years. They have daughters who are 25 and 26, sons who are nine, ten and 11, and a four-year-old granddaughter. His hobbies include com-puters, being a ham radio operator and a private pilot. He also is a deer and squir-rel hunter.

“I find that quite enjoyable,” he said. “Sitting out in woods where it is quiet and no one is bothering you is very nice.”

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Give Me A Chance Equine Rescue Provides Loving Care for Abused, Neglected HorsesCouple funded the rescue effort the first year before finding others to help

By BECKy GILLETTE

MANCHESTER – Polly Cates was horse crazy when she was a little girl, and really wanted a horse of her very own. That dream wasn’t realized growing up in Ver-mont because the winters are so brutally cold. But now Cates cares not just for one horse, but 31 horses and a few donkeys as part of the operation Give Me A Chance Equine Rescue that she and her husband, Tom Cates, took over in 2010.

The couple got started with horse res-cue on Valentine’s Day 2010 when they decided their gift to each other would be to donate $100 worth of feed to an existing horse rescue operation. When they arrived, they found the owner of the operation strug-gling to take care of the horses. They drove back home very distraught, and decided to do all they could to help. Later, after seeing how committed the Cates were, the woman running the rescue operation turned it over to the Cates.

“My husband is a disabled Vietnam veteran, and at first he footed the bill for car-ing for the horses from his veteran income,” Polly said. “He is the one who primarily car-ried the load financially.”

“The first year it was pretty tough,” Tom said. “It took a lot of money to feed the animals, about $800 per month.”

After they got the horses in good shape, the couple bought a piece of property in Manchester community about ten miles from where they live in Arkadelphia. That is where the rescue is located now.

“We have a successful rescue running now,” Tom said. “We are not buying everything ourselves. It is supporting itself. We do fundraisers, and get grants from organizations. We have a lot of people pulling for us. My wife does the evening feedings and care, and we have a good bunch of volunteers who do morning feedings and other labor things needed on the ranch. People like coming and seeing how good the horses look, how calm and friendly.”

Tom stays busy, too, doing all the driving with hauling horses and hay and doing farm checks and investiga-tions to meet their mission to take in starved and abused horses. Often law enforcement is involved initially, and then the horses are placed with the Cates. At times they take in owner surrender horses when the owner has fallen on hard times.

The work with horses is physically strenuous. Wouldn’t Polly rather go home and relax after a day of painting?

“Some days when out I am out there

in freezing weather wading knee deep in mud, I say, ‘Why am I doing this?’” she said. “I’m needed. That is why I’m there. I’m the mama to feed these horses every evening. They get fed before us. It is very hard work, but thankfully the construction work put me in shape to do physical work moving 55-gal-

lon plastic barrels of feed every day. It is stressful some days. We just had to euthanize one. She was in pain. That is the hard part of rescue.”

One of the highlights of their work is adoptions.

“It is magical to see an owner connect with a horse, and see the chemistry and partnership,” Polly said. “Most of our horses were starved or abused, so we are very careful with adoptions. We have a three-page adoption application that requires references, and information about their property and their vet-erinarian. We drive to their prop-erty, ask lots of questions, and only let them adopt if everything checks out.”

In addition to the horses, they have several donkeys who serve as greeters for guests—and as guards. Donkeys are very territorial, and are good at running off coy-otes, dogs or other predators. That is par-ticularly important for handicapped horses.

“Plus, the donkeys are pets,” Polly said.

How can you help?• Make a tax-deductible donation to the 501(c)(3) organization either on their Facebook page www.facebook.com/GiveMeAChanceEquineRescue or website www.givemeachancee quinerescue.org/

• Donate good quality hay, feed, dewormers, salt blocks or other supplies.

• Attend local fundraisers.

The horses had taken a dip in the pond and were taking off in a trot. Black Jack is bringing up the rear still shaking water out of his big ears.


Tom Cates with Simon, one of the rescued horses.


Go online to http://cancer.uams.edu/news/?sid=2&nid=10375

By BECKy GILLETTE

Rarely does a new medical device show promise across broad areas of disease diag-nosis and treatment ranging from cancer to cardiovascular disease, stroke and infec-tions. But that is the case with translational research being conducted at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) by a team led by Vladimir Zharov, PhD, DSc, director of the Arkansas Nanomedi-cine Center at UAMS. Zharov and his team of researchers inject a cocktail of magnetic and gold nanoparticles with a special biolog-ical coating into the bloodstream to target circulating tumor cells (CTCs). A magnet attached to the skin above peripheral blood vessels can then capture the cells.

“By magnetically collecting most of the tumor cells from blood circulating in ves-sels throughout the whole body, this new method can potentially increase specificity and sensitivity up to 1,000 times compared to existing technology,” Zharov said. “Once the tumor cells are targeted and captured by the magnet, they can either be micro-surgically removed from vessels for further

genetic analysis or can be noninvasively eradicated directly in blood vessels by laser irradiation through the skin that is still safe for normal blood cells.”

The clinical prototype device was used in trials involving melanoma and breast cancer.

Zharov said indications are that the device will represent a huge step forward because cancer is most easily and effectively

treated if it’s found at a very early stage. Zharov’s team demonstrated that periodic laser irradiation of blood vessels decreases the level of metastatic CTCs more than 10 times and eventually led to an interruption of metastasis development in distant organs. “Further study could determine whether these new cancer treatments are effective enough to be used alone or if they should be used in conjunction with conventional can-cer therapy,” Zharov said.

The potential for cancer alone is huge considering the fact that most cancer deaths are the result of metastasis due to the spread of tumor cells from the primary tumor through the blood. But there are also other very promising applications.

“The nanomedicine-based approach to read and treat whole blood in the body with nanotechnology seems to be universal, with further development holding the prom-ise for the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases, including infections or cardiovas-cular disorders to prevent stroke and heart attack,” said James Suen, MD, chairman of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

The prototype that uses “in vivo flow cytometry” has demonstrated in a pilot clini-cal trial that it can safely and noninvasively detect melanoma CTCs directly in patients’ blood vessels at sensitivity rates up to 300 times greater than conventional tests of blood drawn from the body. The patient trial was run by Laura Hutchins, MD, a UAMS he-matologist and medical oncologist.

A breakthrough using the technology was made by a member of Zharov’s team, Ekaterina Galanzha, MD, PhD, DSc, who demonstrated its ability to label and track individual CTCs as they circulate in the bloodstream. This discovery, using “pho-toswitchable flow cytometry,” could help shed important new light on the behavior of CTCs.

Galanzha said the research should help fill the gaps in understanding by researchers of the basic mechanisms of CTCs, such as where they’re likely to go, which cell’s be-havior contributes to metastasis, and how rapidly cancer cells shed from primary tu-mors into the bloodstream.

Conducted in collaboration with Al-bert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and published in Chemistry & Biology, Galanzha’s study focused on CTCs with photoswitchable proteins. This approach was chosen because unique proteins within the individual CTCs reveal themselves when exposed to laser light. When a CTC passes through the laser beam, it changes from green to red.

The red color becomes the CTC’s

permanent “label,” enabling researchers to track it as it moves through the body’s blood vessels using the principle of in vivo photo-switchable flow cytometry.

“The cell proteins are genetically en-coded, so when the labeled cells invade or-gans and divide, they get their green color back again,” Galanzha said. “This allows us to distinguish dividing and potentially meta-static cells from dormant cells, which keep their red color. It’s amazing.”

Having the ability to track individual CTCs over time should capture the imagi-nations of scientists looking to unravel the mysteries of metastatically aggressive cells, Galanzha said.

“Photoswitchable flow cytometry opens the door for a new bio-technical platform for basic research and possible clinical applica-tions,” she said.

For cancers that lack the photoswitch-able proteins, Zharov invented artificial photoswitchable nanoparticles to detect and label their CTCs. The final destinations of labeled cells can be tracked and controlled by photoacoustic imaging in Zharov’s labo-ratory.

Zharov hopes that someday the same device he is using to identify and label CTCs in humans can be recalibrated to kill the cells, making his device a “theranostic” instrument. “Theranostics” refers to proce-dure with combined diagnostic and thera-peutic capabilities.

“That’s our next ultimate goal, to treat patients using our technology,” Zharov said. “It is a single technology that can be used for treatment and for guiding treatment. The same laser can be used to kill the cancer cells. We’ve already demonstrated that in animal models.”

Other members of the team include Dmitry Nedosekin, PhD, a biochemical en-gineer; Yulian Menyaev, PhD, a biomedical engineer; and Mustafa Sarimollaoglu, PhD, a software specialist. Zharov’s team collabo-rates productively with other UAMS scientists and departments including Mark Smelters, PhD, Dept. of Microbiology and Immu-nology; Robert Griffin, PhD, Dept. of Ra-diation Oncology, and Nancy Rusch, PhD, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Currently several patents are pending on Zharov’s technology, which his team is refining for a more portable device that will offer real-time analysis. Zharov has an agreement with Cyto Wave Technologies, a company that has preliminary plans to bring the commercialized technology specifically for melanoma diagnosis.

Research is currently supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling about $3 million, and the UAMS Translational Research Institute, $50,000.

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In the past an abnormal Pap smear was a frightening diagnosis that often led to treatments in cases where the ab-normalities might have cleared up natu-rally. Now that doctors have more tools at their disposal such as testing for high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV), women are often advised to take a “wait and see” approach by having repeat testing to see if dysplasia has resolved.

While it is positive that women aren’t risking scarring, infertility, stress, the ex-pense, and the need to take time off work for a medical procedure that isn’t neces-sary, the flip side is that some women are so unconcerned that they fail to make follow-up Pap smear appointments.

The problem is also visibility. While most women know multiple other women with breast cancer, it is rare to know a woman with cervical cancer – particularly someone who has died from it.

“In the early 1900s, cervical can-cer was the number one cause of cancer deaths of women,” said Kristin Zorn, MD, director of the Divi-sion of Gynecologic On-cology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). “Be-cause of advancements in treatment, it is much less common to have a woman die of cervix can-cer than in the past. The issue has fallen off the radar screen because people don’t know many women who have died of cervical cancer. It is not as visible to people. It is not hitting them where they live. That is why we need to raise awareness of the people who are still being affected by it.”

Doctors are less likely to issue stern warnings to a woman regarding the need for follow-up appointments.

“In a way, better knowledge of detec-tion and treatment of cervical cancer has been a victim of its own success,” Zorn said. “I think there is confusion, and some of this is the fault of us in the medical com-munity. A big part of the success with Pap smears was for them to be repeated over time so we could see if it was clearing up or getting worse. To encourage patients to keep follow-up appointments, doctors might put the fear of God in them. Now doctors are less likely to do that. And it can backfire.”

Doctors explain to patients that they have low grade dysplasia, and not cervical cancer and pre-cervical cancer. Women are told not to worry too much, that is might clear up on its own.

“We know a lot more about HPV now,” Zorn said. “We know many people infected with HPV will recover and they

won’t have to be treated. The woman’s immune system will kick in, and get con-trol. Before, we jumped in and treated a lot of women who, now in retrospect, could have waited and their body would have healed on its own. Now if we do a HPV test at the same time and find the

worrisome types of HPV are not present, a patient can be followed rather than hav-ing biopsies or other treatment of the cer-vix. When there are abnormal cells and high risk HPV present, women are more at risk for severe dysplasia or true cervical cancer.”

At times procedures such as biopsies or cervix cryosurgery can lead to two is-sues: scarring that impairs fertility because sperm can’t travel up to the uterus, or the cervix is weakened so that it dilates too early in pregnancy, which can result in

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By JULIE PARKER

America’s independent physicians met mid-March in San Antonio, Texas, for the 20th annual national meeting of TIPAAA – The IPA Association of Amer-ica, the largest trade association serving independent and integrated physicians in the United States.

The focal point: population health, a relatively new front burner issue unfa-miliar to many practitioners. Congress included the model as a component of mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (See box).

“We covered a lot of ground at our annual meeting to educate independent physicians about population health,” said Al Holloway, founder and president of TIPAAA. “Once we fully understand what it is, then we’ll find tools, products and services that can assist independent physicians in their daily practice.”

One question that repeatedly popped up: What’s the difference between popu-lation health and public health?

“Some view population health as a more modern version of public health, which itself – improving the health of the public – may be a goal, a measurement system, and a conceptual framework that undergirds a profession and a scientific field,” wrote Michael A. Stoto, PhD, in

“Population Health in the Affordable Care Act Era,” published by Academy Health (Feb. 21, 2013).

“Population health differs from pub-lic health, at least perceptually, in at least two respects,” Stoto explained. “First, it’s less directly tied to governmental health departments. Second, it explicitly includes the healthcare delivery system, which is sometimes seen as separate from or even in opposition to governmental public health.”

David B. Nash, MD, MBA, founding dean of the Thomas Jef-ferson University School of Population Health, pointed out that popu-lation health “builds on public health founda-tions.”

Among the building blocks, accord-ing to Nash:

• Connecting prevention, wellness and behavioral health science with healthcare delivery, quality and safety, disease prevention/man-agement and economic issues of value and risk – all in the service of a specific population. Examples: a city, provider’s practice, employee group, hospital’s primary service area or pre-school children.

• Identifying socioeconomic and cultural factors that determine the health of populations, and develop-ing policies that address the impact of these determinants.

• Applying epidemiology and biosta-tistics in new ways to model disease states, map their incidence and pre-dict their impact.

• Using data analysis to design social and community interventions and new models of healthcare delivery that emphasize care coordination and ease of accessibility.

“When applied to healthcare deliv-ery, population health differs from con-ventional healthcare by emphasizing value rather than volume of services rendered,” said Nash.

How will population health affect physicians?

Monumentally, said Kathy Jordan, president of Jordan Search Consultants.

“The primary care practice of the fu-ture will look much different than it does today,” she said. “Instead of one-on-one encounters between the patient and their provider, the patient interaction process will include phone visits, email consulta-tions, group visits, education programs and encounters with a variety of care team members. Out-of-office contact will become the new norm as patient health improves. Additionally, primary care physicians of the future must exhibit lead-ership and interpersonal skills, as well as a passion for top-tier service delivery. How well they manage the team will directly translate to how well the health of their patient population is being managed, which will directly impact future compen-sation models.”

Important financially: To be eligible for incentivized government funding, or-ganizations must prove their commitment to, and implementation of, population health, said Jordan.

“They’ll be required to improve the patient care experience, the overall health of populations, and lower per capita costs of case,” she said. “As a more compre-hensively integrated system focused on

population health begins to dominate, the healthcare industry, healthcare experi-ence and provider recruitment initiatives must also evolve.”

Enter population health manage-ment.

Regina Levison, vice president of client development for Jordan Search Consultants, said that “while population health is defined as the health outcomes of a group of individuals comprising a specific demographic population, population health management is a business model centered on the delivery of com-prehensive care and management of total risk.”

The foundational shift in the health-care experience will morph from an in-dustry driven by reactivity to an industry driven by proactive measures, said Levi-son.

“The goal of population health is to keep a patient population as healthy as possible and minimize the need for costly interventions, procedures, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations,” she said.

As an increasing number of health-care organizations move to models of accountable care, the overall healthcare experience will be reconstructed, said Jor-dan.

“Within this transformation, we’ll see an altered patient and physician ex-perience,” she said. “With an emphasis on proactive preventative care, evidence-based protocols, managed care teams, care coordination, and multidisciplinary teams, population health management will reward value in care, versus volume of patients seen.

“Although the results of these initia-tives won’t manifest for a decade or more, population health management will al-most certainly improve the quality of lives for millions of individuals throughout the country.”

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• Lesser known provisions aim to improve prevention and health promotion measures within the healthcare delivery system.

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Physicians from across the state met on April 17th-18th in Fayetteville to discuss advocacy efforts, elect new physician leaders, participate in educa-tional opportunities and plan for the future of healthcare in our state. At the forefront of each activity was the overarch-ing concern for the patients of Arkansas, as highlighted in the inaugural address given by in-coming president G. Edward Bryant, MD, an ophthalmolo-gist from West Memphis.

“By helping direct the legislative process in the 2015 legislative session, we have protected the quality of care for patients in Arkansas,” said Dr. Bryant. “All we have ac-complished was made possible by the time and effort given by the staff and physician members of the Ar-kansas Medical Society… Our members continually promote and provide the high-est quality of care for the patients of the state of Arkansas.”

The inaugural gala, held Friday night, featured keynote speaker Marvin Caston, associate director of the Razor-back Foundation. The former Arkansas fullback played for the 1998 Razorbacks team that shared the SEC Western Divi-sion title.

The group’s Saturday events kicked off with a meeting of the Board of Trust-ees, followed by two educational pro-grams; “Emerging Diseases Update” by Dirk Haselow, MD, PhD, State Epidemi-ologist, Medical Director, Communicable Diseases, UAMS, and a comprehensive report of the Legislative session provided by H. Scott Smith, JD, the society’s direc-tor of governmental affairs.

Smith’s presentation pointed to the 25O bills that were tracked during the session and focused on the 11 that were actively supported by the society, eight of which were passed into law. Smith also noted the 14 bills actively opposed by the society, none of which were passed. Bills that were supported by the society and were passed included: Prior Authorization for Terminally Ill (SB 316/Act 992), Grad-uate Registered Physician Act (HB 1162/Act 929), APRN and PA Hydrocodone Combination Products (HB 1136/Act 529), Credentialing (SB 934/Act 1232), Combat-ing Prescription Drug Abuse Act (SB 717/Act 1208), Limiting Physicians’ Financial Penalties (SB 701/Act 902), Prior Autho-rization (SB 318/Act 1106), Telemedicine Act (SB 133/Act 887).

Smith especially thanked Senator Cecile Bledsoe, Representative Deborah Ferguson, DDS, Representative Ken Hen-

derson, Senator Missy Irvin and Repre-sentative Steve Magie, MD for their work towards improving healthcare throughout the session.

The annual awards luncheon fol-lowed and honored 31 physicians who have been practicing medicine for 50 years. Also honored was Dr. Kent C. Westbrook of UAMS who was presented the society’s Asklepion Award for his on-going contributions to the art and science

of medicine and the betterment of public health.

The weekend concluded with the annual meeting of the Arkan-sas Medical Society’s House of Delegates. The group is composed of physician leaders from every corner of the state and is AMS’ legislative and policy making body. During the meeting, new officers were elected including Dr. Scott Cooper of Rogers, who was an-nounced as the society’s president-elect. Dr. Cooper will take office at the society’s 2016 annual meeting.

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“You can hear them bray. They all have dif-ferent personalities.”

The rescue operation had a major set-back Oct. 13, 2014 when it was hit by an F-1 tornado that destroyed horse shelters, the hay shed, and the hay in it. Fences were damaged, they lost most of their trees, and had a tree go through the roof of their house. A blind mare was trapped under a tree that fell on top of the shed she took shelter in.

“She stood patiently as we sawed limbs with bow saws to free her,” Polly said. “We feel very blessed that no volunteers or horses were seriously hurt or killed. The ASPCA gave the rescue a grant to replace the lost shelters for the horses. They now have cozy carports for shelters.”

The Cates enjoy working with a net-work of people who have the same goals.

“Unfortunately, there are lot of horses out there needing help for different rea-

sons,” Polly said. “Horses are like children. They thrive on routine and knowing they are loved. That is when they do the best physically and mentally. Knowing when going to get fed at a regular time is good. That is what takes most of my evenings. I custom feed; we have special needs horses that eat slower. They need to be in their own stall to take time to eat. Then all get different amounts, and some get additives. We have a grant from Purina so we get Purina feed that is excellent for older horses or rehab-bing starved ones.”

In addition to feeding, the horses have to be dewormed, and wounds doctored. They are bills for farrier work and the vet, including gelding of stallions.

“We work to stop the flow of unwanted horses,” Polly said. “We have no studs. We don’t breed. If a horse come in as a stud, he will get gelded.”

Give Me A Chance, continued from page 3

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“Providers may have the same EHR system, but not the same components or models,” said Shirley Tyson, interim director of SHARE. “SHARE takes that out of the equation. Seventeen hospitals are now live and pushing patient in-formation to SHARE with eight more in the implementation phase. In addition, there are currently 365 practices that have joined SHARE. Some examples of the larger hospitals connected to SHARE include the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Conway Regional, Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff,

and White River Medical Center, just to name a few.”

SHARE gathers patients’ clinical data from all participating healthcare providers to instantly give doctors a ho-listic view of their patients’ health history, treatment and progress. Tyson said that is powerful information that can transform the way that a facility plans, delivers, and coordinates health care.

“In a nutshell, SHARE provides ac-cess to patient’s info at the point of care in a real time manner,” Tyson said. “Healthcare providers don’t have to chase the data. SHARE is vendor agnostic. It doesn’t matter who the vendor is or whose system is being used. SHARE is designed to connect to those system so information can be accessed.”

In addition, SHARE is also able to help providers meet their Meaningful Use incentive requirements for EHRs. The use of SHARE can help avoid duplicate test-ing and procedures, and make it easier to make referrals.

“Joining SHARE will allow your facil-ity to be part of the more than 1,210,990 secure patient records accessible to Ar-kansas’ health care providers through SHARE,” Tyson said. “In addition to improved quality of care and effi cient cost savings, SHARE provides a secure and private way to exchange health data. Because state and federal law require that health information be kept secure both while it is being sent through a computer, and while it is at a provider’s offi ce, pro-viders who join SHARE can be assured

that all electronic health information ex-changed in SHARE is protected and safe-guarded by security protocols that provide a higher level of privacy and accountabil-ity than paper health records. Paper re-cords do not provide this level of security. With SHARE, only those individuals with a need to know see the patient’s record.”

There can be economic barriers for some hospitals adopting SHARE. Jan Bartlett, SHARE policy director, said that some large hospital systems that have in-vested considerable resources with a HIS vendor might not yet recognize the value of using SHARE to connect with other healthcare providers in the state.

“They have spent a fortune on their HIS and they want to get as much value as possible from the purchased system,” Bartlett said. “Paying an additional fee for SHARE may seem unnecessary. But, unfortunately, patients don’t stay within hospital systems. Hospitals won’t have information about patients who have re-ceived care from other providers such as nursing homes, rehab facilities and non-owned clinics. SHARE can provide access to health information outside their HIS.”

Hospitals joining SHARE are able to send and receive health information using Secure Messaging (SM) that allows some patient information to be shared securely and electronically from sender to receiver.

While not allowing access to an entire pa-tient’s record across multiple healthcare providers, SM is more secure and faster than using faxes. Baptist Health uses SM to communicate with other healthcare providers using SHARE.

SM uses DirectTrust protocol, which creates a trusted relationship between sys-tems and users. Another example of SM is Simple Share, which allows a hospital to send secure messages to SHARE users.

Another low technical option is SHARE’s Virtual Health Record (VHR) which permits hospitals and clinics view only access to the patient’s health record using a web-based portal.

Tyson said in the long run, there will be effi ciency cost savings by eliminating all of the faxing of documents back and forth, and courier services. Personnel costs for fa-cilities that have people dedicated to moni-toring a secure fax line will be reduced.

“Manning fax machines, dealing with paper records, the need for that will go away,” Tyson said.

Cost of participating in SHARE de-pends on what the provider wants, rang-ing from SM to a fully integrated health information exchange. The cost of joining SHARE depends on the services wanted from SM to the VHR or to a fully inte-grated health information exchange. Costs are as low as $50 per month.

SHARE: Progress Connecting Multiple Providers with EHRs, continued from page 1

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along with partners E. A. Gresham, MD, also a family practitioner, and Mark Mal-loy, MD, an internal medicine specialist.

“When I was growing up, I could see from watching my father that practicing medicine was a worthwhile endeavor,” Walsh said. “My dad is well respected, and very involved in the community. I aspired to have a similar situation for myself and my family. I was always attracted to sci-ence and enjoyed the logical way of think-ing through things, almost like detective work. Medicine was a good fi t for me.”

Since January 2014 Walsh has been chief of staff at the ACMC, which is owned by the county. He presides over the monthly medical staff meeting, partici-pates in hospital policy-making decisions, and serves on the hospital board of direc-tors. While the position doesn’t come with a salary, Walsh fi nds the work interesting because he is juggling several different areas of need at the same time.

“Generally, when I am asked to weigh in on hospital policy or other deci-sions, the fi rst need I try to meet is that of the patients,” Walsh said. “I try to make decisions that will benefi t them, even if it is not in the best interest of the hospital or physicians. Beyond that, there is a balanc-ing act of meeting the needs of the medical staff and the hospital for their respective abilities to take care of patients.”

Ashley County built a new hospital in

1998 after the critical access hospital pro-gram was initiated. Some might be sur-prised at how modern and state-of-art the hospital is for a county with a population of about 22,000 located in south Arkansas near the Louisiana state line. The 25-bed hospital has a general surgeon, an OB\GYN department, a nursery, an ICU with six beds, a full-service emergency room, advanced imaging (CT, MRI, Nuclear departments), and telemedicine services. ACMC also hosts a variety of outreach specialty clinics allowing for patients to avoid lengthy travel times to visit their or-thopedist, cardiologist, or even oncologist.

Telemedicine partners include Bap-tist Health, which assists with e-ICU services; the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) AR SAVES stroke program; and Arkansas Children’s Hospital, which provides timely assistance for pediatric patients. Walsh said tele-medicine consulting provides exceptional care, and allows patients to remain hospi-talized locally when they would otherwise be transferred.

Walsh is also chair of the hospital’s physician recruitment committee. At the age of 61, his father is the second young-est family practice physician in Ashley County. Many small private practices don’t have the considerable resources needed to attract a new family doctor.

“It is incredibly expensive to recruit a

physician,” Walsh said. “Recruiting is re-ally done at hospital level out of an urban environment. It is hard to draw highly trained and educated physicians to rural areas. That is a local, state, and national issue, but it is something we have got to fi gure out and fi x. In ten to 15 years, if we haven’t recruited anyone, there will be an access crisis. I certainly can’t do it by my-self, so we have to get some help.”

They were successful recruiting a young new pediatrician to town, but there is still a need for more family practice doc-tors. Recruitment to rural areas is a major focus of the Arkansas Academy of Family Practice, and is a hot topic in the medical community at large.

Walsh and his wife, Lori, have a daughter, Mallory, 7, and a son, Barrett, 4. Walsh is a big outdoorsman with a par-ticular passion for fl y fi shing and fl y tying. He travels widely to fl y fi sh in both saltwa-ter and freshwater.

“I probably spend too much time thinking about fl y fi shing – I know my wife would agree,” Walsh said. “Growing up in Crossett, duck hunting was a favorite pastime for my family. Since I’ve moved back, I continue to duck hunt with my dad and brother, which is always an event.”

The Walsh family are diehard Ar-kansas Razorback fans as well, having all attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

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CONWAY – Jamie Carter, who was most recently the chief operating officer of the 617-bed Methodist University Hos-pital in Memphis, has been named as the vice presi-dent and administrator of the soon-to-be-opened Baptist Health Medical Center-Conway.

A Tennessee native, Carter comes to Baptist Health with a wealth of ex-perience in the health-care field including a stint as president and chief executive officer at Crittenden Regional Hospital in West Memphis.

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Hershey Garner, J.D., M.D., Named Interim Chair of UAMS Department of Radiation Oncology

LITTLE ROCK – Hershey Garner, J.D., M.D., has been named interim chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

He succeeds Vaneerat Ratanatharathorn, M.D., M.B.A., who has led the de-partment since it was estab-lished in 2000.

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Dr. Beyga Joins Surgical Associates Of Fort Smith

FORT SMITH – Zbigniew T. Beyga, MD, has joined Surgical Associates of Fort Smith, located at 923 Lexington Avenue. Dr. Beyga will work alongside C. Michael Gooden, MD, and Laurence Lo, MD.

Dr. Beyga previously practiced at Ar-kansas Surgical Group. He has practiced medicine in the Fort Smith region for almost a decade and is certified by the American Board of Surgery.

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pre-term birth or even miscarriage. “It is smart to prevent unnecessary

treatments in terms of decreasing health-care costs and sparing women time, ex-pense, and possible side effects,” Zorn said. “But now we are seeing more women who fail to get follow-up appointments. The women who tend to get in trouble are those who haven’t seen a gynecologist in ten to 15 years. They had their chil-dren, and once that was done, they had their tubes tied. So they don’t go to the OB\GYN to get birth control pills. That is usually how we get women in for Pap smears.”

Zorn said even if you are a health-care provider who doesn’t do Pap smears yourself, in addition to asking patients if they are current with mammograms and colonoscopy, ask her about the last time she has had a Pap smear.

“Remind them of this importance even if you are not going to be the one to do the test,” Zorn said. “Sometimes women are going to their primary care doctor, but they don’t get back to a gyne-cologist until they already have a cancer.”

Doctors can also provide advice about how to enhance the immune system to help clear up mild dysplasia.

“The number one risk factor impact-ing the immune system in cervical disease is smoking,” Zorn said. “It is hard to clear up dysplasia when you are smoking or even exposed to secondhand smoke. That is the number one piece of advice I give. That is getting easier with so many places not allowing smoking, but Arkansas still has higher rates of smoking than the na-tional average.”

Second is good nutrition: lots of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Limit fatty

foods, and limit alcohol consumption.“That is the same diet recommended

by diabetes and heart doctors,” Zorn said. “But that is hard for Americans to hear, because it is not the lifestyle we want to lead.”

Providers may get a lot of questions about vitamin supplements, but said there is no clear evidence that makes much dif-ference in this arena.

“We as human beings are designed to get nutrition from the foods we eat, di-gesting foods and gradually absorbing the contents,” she said. “Supplements as pills and powders are probably never going to be the same as eating a healthy diet. I can’t recommend any particular supple-ment as being proven to improve overall health or cancer risk. Avoiding cigarettes and focusing on a generally healthy life-style is the best advice I can give.”

Zorn is known for her research in ovarian cancer with numerous publica-tions on ovarian cancer on topics rang-ing from prevention strategies to patients’ responses to chemotherapy. She is a re-cipient of the National Institutes of Health Women’s Reproductive Health Research Award. She is also a member of a Centers for Disease Control program that is work-ing to improve HPV vaccination rates in adolescents and young adults.

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