Christina's Considerations

Portals: Promise for Patients

Two recent iHealthBeat articles caught my attention. The first was on use of portals to engage patients and some of the challenges that need to be overcome. My feeling on the challenges described is that these and other considerations area... Read more →

13 Tips for Fighting Mobile Device Threats in Healthcare

I've been on a bit of a roll lately with data security and lately it is focused on mobile devices. Here is another article, this one with 13 tips for fighting mobile device threats in healthcare organizations. My offering is... Read more →

Encryption-on-the-Go: Personal Mobile Devices and BYOD

TechNewsWorld interviewed me not long ago for an article looking at specific issues related to personal mobile devices in healthcare environments. The article is Part 2 of a series, so I also recommend reading the first one, which addresses the... Read more →

Best Practices in Healthcare Disaster Recovery Planning

The shift to more digital healthcare environments means that health IT disaster recovery planning is even more critical than it was in the past. Not long ago, Health Management Technology had an article that does a nice job of taking... Read more →