Comagine Health News
SEATTLE, Washington — Comagine Health’s physician executive John Vassall, MD, was recently awarded the Steven E. Weinberger Award by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internal medicine physicians. This prestigious award is bestowed upon a physician executive for distinguished contributions to internal medicine and improving health care.
As Comagine Health’s physician executive, Dr. Vassall provides strategic leadership, clinical insight and technical expertise for patient safety and quality improvement activities. Dr. Vassall’s career spans more than three decades. Before joining Comagine Health, he was a hospital MD surveyor for The Joint Commission, evaluating U.S. hospitals for safety and…
Dr. Jeff Hummel, medical director of informatics for Comagine Health, was recently included in a Nature article about oral health. The article mentions Comagine Health’s work with oral health integration, which Dr. Hummel spearheaded.
The article focuses on efforts to improve oral health worldwide and examines Comagine Health’s work on a four-year oral health integration project that involved 19 health care centers in five states. As part of the study, organizers taught pediatricians…
Dr. Jeff Hummel, medical director of informatics for Comagine Health, recently contributed an article in the Utah Dental Association newsletter that examined the relationship between periodontal disease and diabetes.
The article shared how elevated blood sugar speeds up the progression of periodontal disease, which makes it harder to control .The same is also true in prediabetes, a condition in which a person’s blood sugar is elevated, not sufficiently enough to meet the diagnostic…