Christina's Considerations

Negotiating "Must-have" Provisions in HIT Contracts

Steven Fox and his associates presented on some important provisions in HIT contracts going forward and his slides and podcast are available on their Health IT Law Blog. It has been a little while since I addressed the topic on... Read more →

Congress on Healthcare Leadership

Sunday, one week ago, as I flew to Chicago, legislation for heatlh reform was passed. It was timely since I was attending the Congress on Healthcare Leadership held each year by the American College of Healthcare Executives. There was a... Read more →

Creating a Pallative Care Program

Creating a Palliative Program: Insights from Healthcare Leaders is a new paper from the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF). I had started to explore creating one at my last hospital, so this paper is of particular interest to me. Aside from... Read more →

The Great Land Grab of 2010: HIE

I found a new HIT blog and a post on the current HITECH happenings with a frontier twist. Chilmark Research refers to current HIE activities as the Great Land Grab of 2010 and I have to agree that it does... Read more →

Child Abuse: Obesity

Health Affairs puts out some really great work and their current issue is an example. It focuses on the issue of childhood obesity and the editor even goes so far as to call it out as child abuse. I have... Read more →

Personal Prepardness Challenge 2010

The UCLA Health System, Office of Emergency Preparedness developed a great Download Get Ready Stay Ready 2010 Personal Preparedness Challenge for their Faculty, Staff and Volunteers. UCLA knows their staff, physicians and volunteers must be prepared at home so they... Read more →

My first month at NRTRC

I've completed my first month as the Executive Director of the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center and thought I'd share some thoughts about the experience. There is always a learning curve with a new job and this one has reminded... Read more →