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Christina Thielst Patient Expert

Santa Barbara, California
Christina received a Bachelors degree in Social Science/Management from Louisiana State University... Full Bio
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The Doctors and Richard Simmons by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living The Doctors have been focused on exercise this month and I thought I'd share this video clip as a reminder to all doctors to have those conversations about wei ... Read on »
Patient Care in a Crisis by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living By now, many of my regular blog followers should have figured out I'm a girl from New Orleans and I also have a specific interest in emergency preparedness and ... Read on »
Health IT ROI - Value to the Enterprise and Patient by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Building Out Your Health IT ROI - The Value to the Enterprise and the Patient This latest article for HIMSS Clinical Informatics Insights explores how enterpri ... Read on »
Appropriate Use of Social Media and Social Networking in Medical Practice by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living The Federation of State Medical Boards  has released Model Policy Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Social Media and Social Networking in Medical Practice. ... Read on »
Telemedicine: A Public Service Announcement by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living If you are like me and feel we need to start educating consumers on the power of telemedicine, then please share this video.  It was created by my friends at @C ... Read on »
Social Media and the Patient Experience by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I'm currently working with a healthcare system and one piece of the project is to incorporate social media into the patient experience.  There are truly innovat ... Read on »
NLRB Report on Social Media Cases by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living The Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board released a second report   on outcome investigations involving social media that were submitted ... Read on »
I am the patient experience! by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living What a great few days of learning it has been here at The Beryl Patient Experience Conference .  The video below sets the stage for how we healthcare workers are ... Read on »
Patient Engagement & Their Experience: The Virtual Touch Points by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living My new collegues at  Tower  seem to like the fact that I envision and write about the application of technologies to improve the work that has to get done in ho ... Read on »
Trusted Source: Certified Medical Apps and Products by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Not long ago I referenced Continua in an interview about securing and optimizing iPads and don't believe I've included them in a blog post.  So, it is probably a ... Read on »
Liking, following, linking, tagging, stumbling: social media is changing the nature of... by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Earlier this year I was invited by the eHealth Initiative to participate in a focus group for PwC Health Research Institute's newly released report entitled, “ ... Read on »
Helping Patients Communicate More Effectively About their Health by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I'm much more involved in patient engagement these days, so I'm really pleased to share some tools that will help patients communicate more effectively about th ... Read on »
Apps for Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living The Office for the National Coordinator recently announced the winners of their " One in a Million Hearts Challenge ," which invited developers to create softwa ... Read on »
Strategic Planning and IT by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I recently joined forces with some other powerful consultants at Tower , a national consulting group focused on re-defining patient experiences across all touch ... Read on »
Southern California HIMSS Annual Healthcare IT Conference by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living The Annual Healthcare IT Conference of the SoCal Chapter of HIMSS is coming up quickly on April 4th in Los Angeles.  It is a great networking and learning event ... Read on »
Securing and Optimizing Your iPad Experience by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living The hospital risk manager in me is at it again!  It has been wonderful to think through the emerging technologies and share the risks I see along with available ... Read on »
CA Nurses Can Administer Anesthetics by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living A state appeals court has ruled nurses who are trained as anesthetists do not need a doctor's supervision to give anesthetics to California hospital patients.   ... Read on »
The Gumbo Chronicles: Shedding Light on Recovery by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living One year ago  I commented  about the co-existence of oil and fisheries in my home state of Louisiana.  This year I share an article that seems to cut right thro ... Read on »