Christina's Considerations

California's HIT & HIE Strategic Plans

This summer has been a busy one for me. When I wasn't writing my book or working on disaster planning, I had the privilege of participating in a couple of workgroups establishing the State of California's plan for health information... Read more →

Baseball and Health Reform

Dr. Thomas Lee hit a home run with his presentation of the real issues surrounding a government run health plan in his commentary in iHealthBeat yesterday. The article titled, Inside Baseball: The Great Debate about Government Run Healthcare, describes the... Read more →

The Evolution of the US Healthcare System: A Process

There is a great outline of the history of the US Healthcare System starting with the 1900s from PBS. I've been involved operationally with the evolution of our healthcare system since the late 1970s and really think we can't talk... Read more →

Is pork safe to eat?

The Novel H1N1 is also known as swine flu and this has caused some concern about whether pork is safe to eat. Nothing that I've seen from any of the reputable sites says that a person can get the H1N1... Read more →

Pandemic Planning and Job Action Sheets/Checklists

I'm now working on some pandemic planning and want to share a few items that look like they will really be helpful. At the end, I'll also make a request for any of you who can help me with checklists... Read more →

Evaluating the Overall Performance of Hospital Leaders

In a recent H&HN article, Paul Hoffman suggests Ten Questions for Hospital Leaders to see if they are addressing the right issues. I'd like to take this a step further, because I believe evaluating hospital leadership goes farther. First, the... Read more →

EHR Saving Lives

Now, here is some good news for those of us working to move the adoption of EHRs along. A Kaiser study found EHRs were at the core of saving cardiac patient lives. The two-year randomized trial of 421 patients found... Read more →

Smartphone Survey Results

I've been following a survey of smartphone users and the results are in! Now I'm an administrator, so I'm not too surprised by the fact that Blackberrys lead the way among my peers. I loved mine and may go back... Read more →

Wisely Using the Injection of Cash for HIEs

It was a pleasure to be interviewed by the writer of For the Records HIEs Seek a Cash Injection, because it provided me an opportunity to reach a broader audience and hopefully motivate a few hospital administrators and communities to... Read more →