Christina's Considerations

ATA Launches the Hub

The American Telemedicine Association launched their social networking site with members only content areas and I think it is a great use of social media for an association to create communities of shared interests. A recent post Social Networking: Aggregating... Read more →

Integration Strategies and Health Reform Implementation Challenges

Healthcare Executives of Southern California is holding its annual meeting in conjunction with the 7th Annual American Health Care Congress in Irvine, CA on December 7th & 8th. The focus of the event will be Integration Strategies and Health Reform... Read more →

Professionalism in the Use of Social Media

The American Medical Association has released its policy on social media and it fits nicely with what I've stated on the subject for anyone in healthcare. With so many physicians using social media, I think AMA is taking a great... Read more →

Ethical Decisions in Healthcare

As our healthcare delivery systems begins to experience one of the most massive transitions in history, I thought I'd remind myself and my peers about ACHE's Ethical Policy Statements. Maybe it is feeling thankful for where I've been and for... Read more →

Bobby Jindal: Governor of the Great State of Louisiana

I met Louisiana's Governor this morning and heard him speak at the Regan Ranch Center. One of the things he mentioned was that for 25 years, Louisiana's greatest export was its young people. We moved in search of opportunity --... Read more →

The Innovator's Prescription:A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

I finally finished reading The Innovator's Prescription and really enjoyed the book, because it stimulated so many new ideas and ways of looking at our healthcare delivery system. The multi-perspective views and comparisons to other industries and history throughout were... Read more →

Everything PR: 100 Social Media Resources

For those of you who can't get enough on social media --- healthcare and beyond -- check out this list of 100 books at Everything PR. I'm happy to have been included (see # 26). Read more →

Connected for Health

On my way up to Seattle this week I finally had a chance to read Connected for Health: Using Electronic Health Records to Transform Care Delivery. It is the story of Kaiser's EHR and should be read by anyone planning... Read more →

New Social Media Resource for Public Health

The CDC is a social networking pioneer in the area of public health and metrics and that is why I included them as one of the best practices in Social Media in Healthcare. They just released a Social MediaToolkit; which... Read more →

Improving your ER’s Efficiency: with Telemedicine

Health Leaders had an article on improving the throughput of the hospital ER and their success key #4 is the role of video for emergencies. This capability helps connect ER doctors to needed specialists when their patients need it most... Read more →

Children's Medical Center in Dallas - a social media best practice

We are approaching the end of the year and the holidays, so I thought I'd share one of the best practices included in my book's online companion since it is relevant to the season. Children's hospitals play an important role... Read more →

Hospital Apps

One of my favorite smartphone apps, because it was the first one I knew that had been created by a hospital, is Pillbox. More and more hospitals are joining Community and Jewish Hospital to create their own apps to reach... Read more →

Improvised Explosive Device Training and Exercise

The medical and health community having been busy preparing for the CA disaster training and exercise in an Improvised Explosive Device scenario. The community-wide event is designed to test medical and health communications, medical surge and intelligence gathering and sharing... Read more →

Fierce Mobile Health on Telehealth

Fierce Mobile Health has hit the scene as one of the top health technology news organizations. I enjoy reading their publications and hearing about their events. The next one will address regulatory and reimbursement issues in Washington DC. I'm really... Read more →

Protection from Social Media Risks

In my last post, I wore my risk manager hat, so I thought I’d continue on since social media in healthcare was still fairly new the last time I wore that hat. However, once a risk manager, always a risk... Read more →

Medical Interpretation

I haven’t really been actively involved with the subject for the last couple of years, but I feel strongly about the subject. So I’m going to exercise my virtual voice, since this is one of my two main reasons for... Read more →

HCE SoCal Annual Meeting

Our Health Care Executives of Southern California annual meeting is being health in conjunction with World Congress this year in Irvine. If you are in southern California, join us and I'll see you there! Read more →

CMS Releases Final Rule: New Additions to Telehealth Coverage for 2011

News flash....CMS has just released its Final Rule for new additions to telehealth coverage for 2011 (see pages 486 to 526 for the major telehealth sections). Highlights include: Individual and group kidney disease education (KDE) services (HCPCS codes G0420 and... Read more →

Improving the Continuity of Care with Telehealth

Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare had a great article in their Sept/Oct issue on the role of telehealth in improving the continuity of care. It basically comes down to extending the reach of clinicians beyond the traditional confines of the... Read more →