Christina's Considerations

Lakeview -- A New Orleans Community

Last night someone found my weblog by Googling Lakeview and it lead me to a wonderful weblog on the community of my earliest memories. As you may know from watching the news reports, Lakeview is where the 17th Street Canal... Read more →

Retention Factors for Nurse Managers

Hospitals and Health Networks had an article in their April issue titled Nurturing Your Nurse Managers and they presented five retention factors for nurse managers from a study published in Nursing Economics in 2003. Well, I don't want to beat... Read more →

Connected Communities Revealing Medseeking Behavior

In Hospitals and Health Network's February issue, two emergency physicians presented their views on medseekers and ERs in Practical Ethics. These two physician's hospital ERs could only address the issue internally, so I wrote an note to both and pointed... Read more →

Louisiana eHealth Conference

The Second Louisiana eHealth Conference on "RHIOs, ROI, & Reality" is being held today and tomorrow in Baton Rouge and I wish Doctors Roxane Townsend and Tony Sun much success! Baton Rouge (French for red stick) is the city where... Read more →

Healthcare Unbound

The MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC (MITEF) is a membership organization that promotes networking and innovation at the intersection of business and technology. They seem quite impressed by the opportunities healthcare and are hosting a forum on Thursday, May 4,... Read more →

Go to My PC & Earth Day

I really love making the connection between health information technology and workplace effectiveness and think I have found a tool which benefits both. Sunday, I attended the SB Earth Day celebration and found a booth for GoToMyPC (a Santa Barbara... Read more →

SF Business Times and iHealth Beat on Brailer

I liked this article from the San Francisco Business Times on Dr. Brailer's resignation! iHealth Beat also has a great interview on Dr. Brailer's Plans. Read more →

Cover the Uninsured Week: May 1 - 7

Cover the Uninsured Week is coming up and you can get promotional information at Cover the Uninsured! Don't forget to remember the under insured and think of your efforts as a prevention component of your Disaster Plan. In addition, Healthcare... Read more →

HHS Press Release and Blogposium

Bob Coffield from Health Care Law Blog came across this press release from HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt regarding Dr. Brailer's resignation. Keep in mind that a successful organization or initiative does not rely solely on the efforts of one individual.... Read more →

Dr. David Brailer Resigns from National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Position

It seems Dr. David Brailer has announced that he will be leaving his position with HHS, but will stay on as vice-chair of a key advisory committee and will advise the White House on consumer issues. Dr. Brailer has been... Read more →

Blogposium: Day 3

Wow! The Blogposium is getting some media coverage from eWeek and Business Innovation Insider. We also have some new registered contributors! Welcome to the flattening of our world! Christina's Considerations on Regional Health Information Organizations Conmergence on Telehealth Drugwonks on... Read more →

More Survey and Research Findings

The 17th annual HIMSS leadership survey results were recently released and for the first time information on RHIOs was collected. The key finding was that almost 75% of respondents report no RHIO participation yet (only 14% said their organization is... Read more →

Blogposium: Day 2

Visit All the Blogposium Participants: Christina's Considerations on Regional Health Information Organizations & EMR/EHRs eHealth on Integration of Personal Health Records and Electronic Medical Records EMR and HIPAA on Electronic Medical Records and Biometric Integration Envisioning 2.0 on The E-Patient-Provider... Read more →

Child and Adolescent Health

AHRQ just released a report on Child Health Research. This collection of research data is important becasue children and adolescents are growing and developing, and their health care needs, use of services, and outcomes are very different from those of... Read more →

Blogposium: Clinical Informatics Wiki

Please visit the Clinical Informatics Wiki and my contributions to the RHIO Definition: Regional health information networks and organizations (RHINs and RHIOs) represent connecting communities striving to adopt and implement standards-based solutions that eventually will link into the envisioned National... Read more →

CalRHIO Roadmap and Vantage Point RHIO Survey

CalRHIO has released their data standard recommendations aimed at helping healthcare organizations across the state easily share and use vital patient information. The Data Standards Roadmap provides a guide for California health care organizations as they purchase new or upgrade... Read more →

Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc.

Some long awaited public news on the SBCCDE, Inc. in Government HIT. Read more →

More on EHRs, EMRs & Benefits of HIT

AHRQ released a report Costs and Benefits of HIT which is a synthesis of studies that have examined the quality impact of health IT as well as the costs and organizational changes needed to implement health IT systems. Those of... Read more →

HIT and the 2006 ACHE Congress

My latest Health-IT World article: Congress on Healthcare Leadership: On Digital Transformation and Information Science Read more →

Happy Wiki-ing!

The AHIMA Library has released Language of Health Data Exchange by Meryl Bloomrosen, RHIA, MBA, and Kevin Heubusch about the trail of acronyms left by rapidly advancing data exchange initiatives. Also, the RHIO Wiki website was just announced by partners... Read more →

Technology Healing Healthcare

Way back in October I posted on the topic of Healing Healthcare and a Businessweek article. Chief Executive has now weighed in with Can Technology Heal the Healthcare Industry? The latest article is a great overview for and points out... Read more →

So, you want to start a RHIO?

Elizabeth Roop interviewed me for an article in For the Record Magazine in the April 3, 2006 issue. To read the article go to So you want to start a RHIO? Read more →

Healthcare Leadership Alliance: Competency

The HLA Competency Directory is a searchable reference tool shows educators and healthcare leaders the expertise managers need to meet the challenges of managing the nation's healthcare organizations. The interactive directory is based on job analysis and input from the... Read more →

Drowning in Data!

Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning in data! But today, while going through the pile on my desk I came across an article from Stanford Social Innovation Review and it focused on a real story -- of "Joe"! It reminded... Read more →

What is a RHIO?

Those of you who follow my blog know that I presented on establishing a RHIO in Chicago last week at the American College of Healthcare Executives Annual Congress on Leadership. I've been a member of this organization for over 20... Read more →