Christina's Considerations

Rural Telecon '06

The 10th Annual Conference of the Rural Telecommunications Congress, Rural Telecon '06, will be held on October 22-25, 2006 in Little Rock, Arkansas at the Wyndam Hotel. Yours truly will be speaking on RHIOs and present a special RHIO workshop... Read more →

Dads Want Flexibility, Too!

Father's Day just passed and I just received the article below in my BenefitNews.com newsletter. My experience with Dads and flexibility is that the culture of many workplaces is to expect that Moms want and need flexibility and not realize... Read more →

The Obvious Business Model for RHIOs

My latest Health IT World article on the Obvious Business Model for RHIOs is an attempt to shake up those pounding the "sustainable business model" drum and help those navigating the world of RHIOs to reflect on their organization's position... Read more →

Healthcare Executives: Six Sigma

Healthcare Executives of Southern California The Independent Southern California Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Save the Date! 2006 Annual Conference "Six Sigma" Featuring Chip Caldwell Friday, November 3, 2006 Renaissance Montura Hotel, Los Angeles, CA **... Read more →

Children and Health Information Technology

According to AHRQ, approximately 20 million children suffer from at least one chronic health condition and there are about 200 chronic conditions and disabilities that affect young people. Researchers believe that the proposed information technologies may empower families! At the... Read more →

Competition with DOQ-IT Program?

Background: Illumysis is the health information technology division of Lumetra and an independent healthcare consulting organization. Lumetra staff, who now form Illumysis, developed and implemented CMS' DOQ-IT program. In March I wrote an article on Illumysis for Health IT World... Read more →

Where sensible people built a century or two ago!

Growing up in New Orleans and Metairie, I always knew to prepare for the big hurricane -- the one that would go up the Mississippi River. break or topple the levees, flood the City and cause tremendous damage! Well, Mother... Read more →

Aging in Place and Remote Patient Monitoring

My latest Health-IT World article is in the June 6 issue and titled Aging in Place: The role of Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions. In the article I address the concept of "Aging in Place", which basically means growing old where... Read more →

My Favorite Weblogs!

The EMR & HIPAA weblog included a list of their favorite, so I thought perhaps I should recognize those weblogs that I really enjoy. My other favorites are: Yasnoff on eHealth - he is thoughtful and not afraid to explore... Read more →

Resignation Letter to Secretary Leavitt

A link to the resignation letter Dr. Brailer sent to Secretary Leavitt is below. I think it is important to share because it highlights how far we have come in the last couple of years and where we are still... Read more →

Role of Individuals in Determining the Future of Personal Health Records

David Lansky, Senior Director for Health Programs and Executive Director of the Personal Health Technology Council at the Markle Foundation was interviewed not long ago by iHealth Beat. (The complete transcript of the interview is available online. The complete audio... Read more →

What readers want!

It is time for a little reflection on Christina's Considerations! I find a little reflection helps with moving forward, so here we go! Almost daily people around the web are conducting searches on medication reconciliation and finding my post with... Read more →