Nine million Kaiser Permanente patients can now access their own medical information anywhere in the world on mobile devices through a mobile-optimized website, Kaiser executives announced today.
In what George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, called a historic announcement, Kaiser Permanente, the Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, the Group Health Cooperative and the Mayo Clinic connected on April 6, 2011, to create the Care Connectivity Consortium – a model for health data exchange that officials touted as being easily replicated at healthcare systems and community hospitals across the country.
They might be late to the Health 2.0 party, they said. However, a panel of employers and healthcare insurers at the Health 2.0 conference on Monday made it clear they are ready to play.
Kaiser Permanente and scientists at UCSF are celebrating the first major milestone of their genomics project – they have genotyped the DNA and analyzed the length of chromosome tips in more than 100,000 Kaiser Permanente members. Officials say that their electronic health record played a critical role in helping to achieve this in just 15 months.
Kaiser Permanente this week has opened a new Center for Total Health near Capitol Hill. Kaiser executives said they hope the center will be a place for bringing together history, innovation, and state-of-the-art technology. It will also provide a place for innovators, leaders, influencers, thinkers and believers in wellness to talk about health.
Five health systems, each a leader in the use of electronic medical records for their patients, joined together today to announce a new initiative to securely exchange electronic health data, with the first data exchange planned in the next year.
Tom Carter, a vice president at Kaiser Permanente, penned an opinion piece last week, discussing the benefits of EMRs. Carter's argument, however, is touting EMRs' business case for businesses - not healthcare providers.
Kaiser Permanente is donating its Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT) for open access to help boost the country's transition from paper-based medical records to electronic health records.
GE, athenahealth and Sermo are among the top 10 innovative healthcare companies named by Fast Company. Kaiser Permanente is the sole healthcare provider on the list.
A new study found little difference in cost and quality among 3,000 hospitals that were in various stages of electronic health record initiatives. If you just stopped at the headline, it's great fodder for those who believe EHRs are over-hyped. But when you read the details of the study's findings, it's actually a story in favor of EHRs.
The Kaiser Permanente Health Care Institute and National Labor College hosted a national forum highlighting best practices for providing high-quality care to patients at lower costs.
Kaiser Permanente announced today that more than 3 million members are using My Health Manager, the personal health record available on www.kp.org. The growing number of active users - now more than one-third of Kaiser Permanente's 8.6 million members - demonstrates that consumers find the organization's personal health record an effective, easy and convenient way to manage their care. This announcement comes during the annual Health 2.0 - 1x conference in Boston, where leaders from Kaiser Permanente and other providers are collaborating to find the best ways to empower and engage patients in their own care.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is honoring Kaiser Permanente Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, George Halvorson, with the 2009 Louis Sullivan Award. WEDI's award recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves through their leadership vision and achievements in advancing the overall quality and efficiency of health care. The winner is selected through a vote by the WEDI board of directors.
Kaiser Permanente announced today that its members in four geographic regions rated the organization's health plans highest in customer satisfaction in the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 National Health Insurance Plan Study(SM). The regions are Colorado, Virginia-Maryland, California and the Northwest. These plans serve almost 7.5 million of Kaiser Permanente's more than 8.6 million members.
An engaged front-line team, supported by an electronic health record and a clinical care registry, is credited with reducing the deaths of patients with coronary health disease by 73 percent, according to the results of a Colorado program piloted by Kaiser Permanente.
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A little more than half of Americans say healthcare IT should be a top priority for the next president, according to a new Kaiser Permanente survey. The research also revealed that Americans continue...
