Christina's Considerations

Bees, Geisha, Pirates and the Workplace

One benefit of working 40 minutes away from home is the ability to catch up with some books I've been wanting to read. To start with I listened to a couple of chick books The Secret Life of Bees and... Read more →

Executive Order

President Bush's Executive Order Promoting Quality and Efficient Health Care in Federal Government Administered or Sponsored Health Care Programs! Need I say more? Read more →

Connecting States

eHealth Initiative's report on state RHIO activities highlights trends across the nation. I'm grateful for state governments taking a lead role initiating action, but hope everyone involved will remember that these efforts need to be public private partnerships! Read more →

Final Regulations to Benefit Interoperable HIT

Gerry Hinkley and his peers at DWT have released a bulletin on the OIG and CMS adoption of final regulations permitting the donation of ePrescribing and EHR technology. These safe harbors to the Anti-kickback Statute and exceptions to the Stark... Read more →

The Pulse of RHIOs

For the last few weeks I've noticed a significant increase in the number of people searching for "what is a RHIO?" or something similar and they are finding my post What is a RHIO? I'd like to invite all of... Read more →

Payer Performance

Wow! I just learned about something from my friends over at HIT Transition. It is called PayerView and it is the first ever review of payer performance from the vantage point of the physician. Go physicians! Read more →

New Exceptons and Safe Harbors

New Regulations to Facilitate Adoption of HIT from US Department of Health and Human Services. The new regulations create new exceptions and safe harbors to two key federal fraud and abuse laws for arrangements involving the donation of certain electronic... Read more →

HIMSS RHIO Guidebook

For the last several months I've been working with a great group of IT professionals, attorneys and others known as the HIMSS RHIO Guidebook Work Group. LeRoy Jones and I are leading the effort to create a comprehensive resource guide... Read more →

Louisiana RHIO

Click here to read the Louisiana Health Care Redesign Charter. The charter represents an effort to pursue a Medicaid waiver and Medicare demonstration project for the four parishes that make up the New Orleans metro area, which encompasses 70 percent... Read more →

A Child's Cultural Competency

I'm a working mom and sometimes prepare meals for the week on Sunday. This past Sunday morning I had only chopped some onion and threw it into the cold pan when my oldest daughter came down and said "ummm, gumbo!"... Read more →

Is a copyright worth anything?

I recently learned that the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey posted my copyrighted guide Forming a RHIO? on their website for the world to see! I felt I was gracious to give permission for its distribution within the purchaser's... Read more →

Historical View of SBCCDE

In preparing for Monday's post, I came across something on the SBCCDE website and thought I should include a link here. It probably appeared in the Santa Barbara County Medical Society in the second half of 2005 and is a... Read more →

EHR Forum for Hospitals and Medical Centers

The Strategic Research Institute will hold the 2006 EHR Forum on Implementing EHRs in Hospitals and Medical Centers September 18-19 at the Disney Boardwalk in Orlando, FL. The two-day event will focus on successful management of all aspects of EHR... Read more →