Christina's Considerations

Faces of Hope: Celebrating Community Health Centers

Last week I spoke at the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association and Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States Conference and received a copy of the book Faces of Hope: Celebrating Community Health Centers (ebook). While there and reading the book,... Read more →

Social Media Cuts Healthcare Costs -- Health Information Exchanges -- InformationWeek

I read the Healthcare Performance Management in the Era of "Twitter" paper on my flight to Denver this week and was still thinking about it when I saw this article Social Media Cuts Healthcare Costs -- Health Information Exchanges --... Read more →

Dr. Drew Pinsky

In the early 1990's I worked at Las Encinas Hospital with an exceptional young addiction medicine specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. When he wasn't at the hospital, he was creating quite a stir on KROQ's Loveline program. A few years ago,... Read more →

HIMSS HIT Dashboard

Many moons ago the HIMSS RHIO Federation came out with an HIT dashboard . It seems like it has been re-released after being out of service for a while and I'm happy to see it back. The dashboard displays major... Read more →

One physician's journey with social media

My old blogger friend from acoss the pond, Rod, has a great link to a video on one physician's journey with social media. And, she is from one of the Northwestern states and with one of the NRTRC consortium member... Read more →

Marian Medical Center

One of the hospitals in our county is included in a paper by California Health Care Foundation, so I thought I'd share it here Hospitals Thrive Despite Challenging Payer Mix. I've been working with Marian. and the other hospitals in... Read more →

The Saints

I hate the fact that I can't watch all of the Saints games from home here in SB. So, I'm in my office today keeping up with the score on my computer and am really happy to see the current... Read more →

Disaster Recovery and IT

Health IT Guy has a great post on planning for IT disaster recovery . The most important thing is to ensure that your hospital's leadership has the conversation about what it's essential services are and which systems are the most... Read more →

Social Media in Healthcare Book Review

Ken at Collaborative Social Media has a wonderful review of my new book. I really appreciate the opportunity to see what makes an impression on readers and hope you will consider leaving your own thoughts as a comment on this... Read more →

New ATA Issue Briefs on Immediate Actions for Telehealth

The ATA has released Six Immediate Actions for President Obama’s Administration for Telehealth (Fall 2010) that were prepared for discussioins with the Administration: Mandating Telemedicine as a Covered Service under Federal Health Benefit Plan Medicare Coverage for Technology-Aided “Physician Services”... Read more →

Physicians, Revenue and Income

Mark Frisse has some interesting stats on a recent post about physicians, revenue and income from Deloitte's Center for Health Solutions. I also appreciate learning about Center and their research. Read more →

Forming, Storming and Norming

I visited Life as a Healthcare CIO and immediatly was attracted to the home teleconferencing equipment post. Then, I saw Forming, Storming and Norming. Well, with a really healthy dose of management and social science classes under my belt I've... Read more →

Health Reform ... made simple

Thanks to Hospital Life for helping me find the Kaiser video that will help us all understand Health Reform just a little bit better. We can alll expect to see many changes to our healthcare delivery system and I think... Read more →

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Impacts on Rural People, Places and Providers

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a paper that looks at the Affordable Care Act impact on rural people, places and providers. It highlights some of the significant provisions, but also goes some of the key sections. The two... Read more →

Preventing Workplace Violence in Healthcare: Podcast

A post at Nuesoft News Blog includes an informative podcast on workplace violence in heatlhcare environments. As a former Safety Officer and Chair of the Environment of Care/Safety Committee in hospitals, I can see this podcast being useful for employee... Read more →

HIMSS Book of the Year

I just nominated Social Media in Healthcare: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate for the HIMSS Book of the Year Award. I've been invited to speak on a social media panel at HIMSS 2011 and participate in the social media pavilion, so it... Read more →

FCC Spectrum Dashboard

The Federal Communications Commission's Spectrum Dashboard provides a public means of reviewing how spectrum bands are allocated and for what uses, who holds licenses and in what areas. The beta version provides basic, plain language information about frequencies generally deemed... Read more →

Social Media for Good

Talk about transparency...Seattle Children's has a real example of using social media for good! Their followers say it all. Read more →

HealthcareITNews Survey on Telehealth and Distant Care

Healthcare IT News is conducting a short survey to learn more about the interest of CIOs and other medical executives in the field of telehealth and distance care. Your insight and opinions can help shape their coverage decisions in this... Read more →