Christina's Considerations

September is National Preparedness Month

September is National Preparedness Month -- a time for all individuals and communities to better prepare for an emergency. To get started, visit the ready.gov site. To learn how you can promote emergency preparedness in your community and access tools... Read more →

2nd Annual National Health IT Week Blog Carnival

This year's HIMSS National Health IT Week Blog Carnival is being hosted by Health IT expert and social mover and shaker, Brian Ahier. This is a great opportunity for bloggers who are passionate about the value of Health IT to... Read more →

Colorado's Medical Neighborhood & HIE

When I first started blogging, one of my favorite topics was on health information exchange and RHIOs. It made sense because had been working with RHIOs and data exchange projects and there were still many questions among my peers about... Read more →

Managing Employees with Biosensors - NOT!

I often speak about the need to help employees manage their time, but this Dilbert cartoon reflects a practice that takes this advice a bit too far. Effective leaders will laugh, but not apply wireless health tools to assign work.... Read more →

Top 50 Most Social Media Friendly Hospitals for 2013

MHADegree.org has taken on the arduous task of gathering social media stats for all of the hospitals listed as “Nationally Ranked” for at least one adult specialty by U.S. News & World Report and used the number of followers and... Read more →

JAMA Viewpoint Calls for Revising Physician Social Media Guidance

In a viewpoint published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, three ethics and psychiatry experts from Johns Hopkins University argue that industry guidelines on online medical professionalism inappropriately call on physicians to separate their personal and professional identities.... Read more →

Banning social media in your healthcare organization - Why is why not!

HealthLeaders has a wonderful article outlining 4 reasons to ban social media in your hospital. Unfortunately, these are also great reasons for potential employees and patients to stay away from your facility. 1. You don't trust your employees 2. You... Read more →