Kristin Johnson

About Kristin Johnson
Kristin L. Johnson, MPH, is a Health Information Technology (HIT) Analyst at John Snow, Inc (JSI), where her work focuses on the use of HIT to improve clinical outcomes and the delivery of health care both domestically and internationally. Kristin’s current work includes a USAID HIT project that evaluates use of HIT for continuous quality improvement of antiretroviral therapy related outcomes. Additionally, she provides monitoring and evaluation (M&E) technical support for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s HIT portfolio.

Kristin is also an M&E Advisor to Pediatric HIV/AIDS Treatment Support (PATS), a not-for- profit organization that supports treatment for HIV-positive children in rural China.

Before joining JSI, Kristin was a Clinical Research Analyst at the Massachusetts General Hospital where she specialized in quality improvement and the evaluation of HIT.

Role(s) / Profession(s)

Epidemiologist
Information Technology Professional
Monitoring & Evaluation Professional

Organization

John Snow, Inc. - JSI
Website: http://www.jsi.com/JSIInternet/ Type: For-Profit Organization Country: United States About: John Snow, Inc., and its nonprofit affiliate JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., are public health research and consulting firms dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities throughout the world. JSI builds local capacity to address critical health problems, collaborating with local partners to assist countries, governments, communities, families, and individuals to develop their skills and identify solutions that meet their public health needs. Through management assistance, research and evaluation, education, and training, JSI works to enable agencies and health professionals to provide appropriate services in an effective and compassionate manner. For almost 30 years, Boston-based JSI and its other affiliates, including World Education, Inc., JohnSnowBrasil and Instituto Promundo, have provided high-quality technical and managerial assistance to public health programs worldwide. JSI has implemented projects in 102 countries, and currently operates from seven U.S. and 38 international offices, with more than 500 U.S.-based staff, and 1,100 host country national field-based staff.
Massachusetts General Hospital - MGH
Website: http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England. The 900-bed medical center offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. Each year, MGH admits more than 46,000 inpatients and handles nearly 1.5 million outpatient visits at its main campus and at its four health centers: in the Back Bay, Charlestown, Chelsea and Revere. Its Emergency Department records nearly 80,000 visits annually. MGH is the only hospital in the United States to hold concurrent Level 1 verification for adult and pediatric trauma and burn care. The surgical staff performs more than 35,000 operations and the MGH Vincent Obstetrics Service delivers more than 3,500 babies each year.
Pediatric HIV/AIDS Treatment Support - PATS
Website: http://www.patskids.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: PATS supports 45 HIV-positive children in central China who were infected by parents who contracted HIV through paid plasma donation. PATS works with communities to ensure that these children have comprehensive medical care, access to life saving HIV/AIDS medications, nutritional support, and educated caretakers.

Work Location(s)

United States

Kristin's Communities

Language(s)

Spanish

Recent Contributions

Kristin Johnson started a discussion "Secure Document Storage and Sharing" in the Health IT community.

Hi All, Does anyone have experience with low cost strategies to securely share documents? I work with a small NGO that provides adherence support to child with HIV in China. We are looking to identify a secure and inexpensive strategy to facilitate internal sharing of documents that contain identifiable health information. We have considered Google docs and Dropbox, however, to my knowledge these are not HIPPA compliant. Has anyone else encountered this issue or a ...
Kristin Johnson started a discussion "Call for mHealth white papers" in the Health IT community.

Workshop on "mHealth Evidence" - Call for White Papers Collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, McKesson Foundation, National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health http://obssr.od.nih.gov/scientific_areas/methodology/mhealth/index.aspx National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD August 2011 (Exact Date will be announced by 5/6 at http://obssr.od.nih.gov/scientific_areas/methodology/mhealth/index.aspx) Mobile health (mHealth) has the potential to simultaneously reduce the cost of health care and improve our health by encouraging healthy behaviors, providing continuous monitoring to prevent or reduce ...
Kristin Johnson replied to "GHDonline Expert Panel: Sharing Nursing Lessons on Improving ART Adherence in Patients with Complex Needs" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Hi Elizabeth, This sounds like great proposal. Where in China are you working? For some of the children in our program, their communities are not aware of their HIV status, therefore a school-based approach is not something that we have focused on. PATS' local partner, AOS, however runs a community-based activity center for children living with and affected by HIV. The children go to the center on Saturday to participate in singing, arts, games, mandarin ...
Kristin Johnson replied to "GHDonline Expert Panel: Sharing Nursing Lessons on Improving ART Adherence in Patients with Complex Needs" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Thanks for initiating this discussion Chris. Its fantastic to learn from the experiences of people from all over the map. Some of the issues that are being discussed are similar to those that I encounter with my work in rural China with the NGO Pediatric HIV/AIDS Treatment Support (PATS, www.patskids.org). PATS supports orphans and vulnerable children with HIV via a community health worker (CHW) model. Our primary focus is educating children and their caretakers about ...
Kristin Johnson started a discussion "Introduction to the HIT Community" in the Health IT community.

I am pleased to join the team of HIT Community moderators to participate in discussions about HIT strategies to improve health outcomes and delivery of health care services. I come to the HIT community with experience in the evaluation of HIT and the use of HIT for clinical quality improvement. I look forward to participating in discussions and to learning from our shared experiences with innovative and practical applications of HIT. Best, Kristin Johnson

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