Christina's Considerations

EHR Readiness in Rural CA: An RFP

The Rural Health Information Technology Consortium released an RFP to assist with conducting EHR readiness assessments of our CA rural and Critical Access Hospitals. If you are a health information technology service provider experienced with small rural healthcare providers in... Read more →

Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth

I've done a little research this week and have a few papers I'd like to share (and keep the links handy for future reference.) They are all on remote monitoring, telehealth and other related technologies. I've scanned them, but look... Read more →

Aging in Place - with a little help from telehealth

Healthcare IT News and Federal Telemedicine News had great articles on the Senate Special Committee on Aging last week. Senators heard about the important role that remote/home monitoring, telemedicine and others forms of telehealth can play in improving care and... Read more →

Telehealth: A solution for the future!

Our healthcare system is undergoing a huge shift and transformation and I'm really seeing some significant indicators that telehealth, remote patient monitoring and mHealthwill become routine in the care delivery system. The recent healthcare reform legislation is probably the biggest... Read more →

Monday Morning Hustle - Detroit Medical Center

The ladies (I didn't see any gentlemen) of the Detroit Medical Center Patient Accounting Office have a great way to get started for their work week. The short video of them doing the Monday Morning Hustle is beautiful! Read more →

An App for That: Jewish Hospital

Marty at Hospital Life has an app for Jewish Hospital And Frazier Rehab. Way cool! Read more →

Project Legacy: A New VA Hospital for New Orleans

Louisiana will have a new VA hospital in New Orleansand it is much needed. The new facility is in the same neighborhood and close to the rest of the medical school/inner city healthcare hub. It looks to be a beautiful... Read more →

Can Electronic Clinical Documentation Help Prevent Diagnostic Errors?

The New England Journal of Medicine addressed the subject of electronic clinical documentation helping to prevent diagnostic errors in the current issue. There is a great table that summarizes the types of clinical documentation and their associated goals and features.... Read more →

Employing Social Media to Build Customer Satisfaction and Community Outreach

I just participated in a Washington State Healthcare Executive Forum educational program via teleconferencing. WSHEF is a local chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives and I'm really impressed by how they were able to engage healthcare executives across... Read more →

Doc EHR Talk

DocEHRtalk.org is a site built to help docs learn about EHRs and connect. It is based on research around diffusion of innovation theories and was created by one of the pioneering RHIO/HIE organizations - Rhode Island Quality Institute. Visit, and... Read more →

Mobile Health

I addressed the topic of mobile health in my book on social media in healthcare, because I feel this is one of the disruptive forces we can expect and great leaders need to be prepared. In my new telehealth world,... Read more →