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  3. About Kaiser Permanente

    Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is a consortium of three distinct groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and its regional operating organizations, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and the Permanente Medical Groups. As of 2006, Kaiser Permanente operates in nine states and Washington, D.C., and is the largest managed care organization in the United States. Kaiser Permanente has 8.7 million health plan members, 156,000 employees, 13,729 physicians, 37 medical centers, 400 medical offices, and $34.4 billion in annual operating revenues and $1.3 billion in net income. The Health Plan and Hospitals operate under state and federal not-for-profit tax status, while the Medical Groups operate as for-profit partnerships or professional corporations in their respective regions.

  6. Quotes about Kaiser Permanente

    1. “ We have made a lot of progress in health IT over the past year, including reaching full implementation of our electronic health record, Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect®, and it is an honor to be recognized for that accomplishment with additional Stage 7 Awards. ”
      In Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation

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    2. Banner Health Achievement Highlights EHR Struggles

      Explore InformationWeek (May 10 2012) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      Banner Health Achievement Highlights EHR Struggles ... honor because so few hospitals have received it. Only 65 U.S. institutions--more than half of them Kaiser Permanente hospitals--had received the recognition before Banner increased the total to 82. Banner, which oper... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   California   Phoenix   Arizona

    3. HIMSS Analytics Honors Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center With Stage 7 Award

      Explore Healthcare Technology Online (Jan 30 2012) Industry News , EHR Adoption

      ...enting best practices in implementing EMR HIMSS Analytics announced that Moanalua Medical Center, a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, has received its Stage 7 Award. The award represents attainment of th... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Las Vegas   EMR   Hawaii

    4. Cerner, McKesson, athenahealth: CMS issuance of Stage 2 meaningful use rules ...

      Explore Financial Times (Jan 4 2012) Meaningful Use

      ...ectivity to be solved in the next two-to-five years, noting that private healthcare systems such as Kaiser Permanente, Geisinger Health Systems, the Mayo Clinic and Intermountain Healthcare, among others, have success... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Washington   Congress   Electronic Health Records

    5. Nice to acquire performance management specialist Merced for up to $170 million

      Explore Finextra Research (Dec 2 2011) Industry News

      ...mong others, Bell Canada , British Gas, Co-Op Bank, Coca Cola, Dell, Delta Airlines, Dish Networks, Kaiser Permanente, Liberty Mutual, O2, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Integrating Merced and NICE capabilities create... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Dell   Performance Management   Sprint

    6. UCSF Medical Center Catches Up With EHR Deployment

      Explore California Healthline (Sep 8 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      ...e company's EHR systems were in place in several other Northern California organizations, including Kaiser Permanente, Mills-Peninsula Hospital, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and San Mateo Medical Center. Mills-Penin... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   California   Electronic Health Records   Kaiser Permanente

    7. EHR Use by Doctors Will Foster Personal Health Record Uptake

      Explore pcworld.com (Aug 24 2011) Trends in End User Experience , EHR Adoption

      EHR Use by Doctors Will Foster Personal Health Record Uptake ...ons people go to their Kaiser PHR," she said, referencing the PHR offered by health care consortium Kaiser Permanente. While consumer enthusiasm about using PHRs is tepid, the overall consumer use of health IT is stro... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Kaiser Permanente   Forrester Research

    8. Study: EHRs Can Have Positive Effect on Environmental Factors

      Explore ihealthbeat.org (May 4 2011) Green End User Experience

      ...health records bring a neutral to slightly positive effect on environmental factors, according to a Kaiser Permanente report to be published in the May edition of Health Affairs, InformationWeek reports. The report ex... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York Times   Electronic Health Records   Kaiser Permanente

    9. Kaiser Permanente Honored For Electronic Health Record Implementation

      Explore Healthcare Technology Online (Feb 25 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use , Green Desktop Virtualization , Green End User Experience

      Kaiser Permanente Honored For Electronic Health Record ImplementationHealthcare Technology Online (press release)Ther... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   California   San Diego   America

    10. Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation

      Explore PR Newswire (Feb 22 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use , Green Desktop Virtualization

      Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record ImplementationPR Newswire (press release)There are a total of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   California   San Diego   America

    11. BMC Takes ServiceDesk Solution To Salesforce Cloud

      Explore Information Management (Nov 17 2010) Trends in End User Experience , Cloud Computing

      ...0,000 custom applications. It claims some 82,400 customers, including such companies as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, and Sprint Nextel. BMC, which is headquartered in Houston, has about $2 billion in annual revenues... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   BMC   Kaiser Permanente

    12. Texas RHIO Provides Model for Rural and Community Hospital EHR Adoption

      Explore PR Newswire (Nov 9 2010) Trends in End User Experience , EHR Adoption , Cloud Computing , Meaningful Use

      ...are information technology visionaries in receiving the honor: , M.D., the chief medical officer at Kaiser Permanente; , M.D., acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards in the Office of the Natio... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Texas   America   Allscripts Electronic Health Record

    13. As Quest and HP Partner to Create New EHR Systems, MDs Still Fall Short

      Explore GenomeWeb (Oct 5 2010) EHR Adoption

      As Quest and HP Partner to Create New EHR Systems, MDs Still Fall Short Terms of the deal call for Quest's subsidiary MedPlus to integrate the web-based Care360 system with HP's hardware. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Kaiser Permanente

    14. Practice Fusion Provides EMR Response to Whooping Cough Outbreak

      Explore Digital Journal (Sep 8 2010) EHR Meaningful Use

      ...olo practices, can use these tools – doctors do not have to belong to a large organization (such as Kaiser Permanente) to have this kind of life-saving technology available." Practice Fusion can provide insight into t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   California   San Francisco   Kaiser Permanente

    15. Virtual Instruments to Host Free Webinar; Addresses Common Bottlenecks, Risk Reduction and Performance Optimization ...

      Explore Yahoo! Finance (Aug 19 2010) Cloud Computing , Green Desktop Virtualization

      ...nd SAN affect business-critical application performance. Customers such as Barclay's Card Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp. achieve significant cost savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimi... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   EMC   San Francisco

    16. Virtual Instruments Reduces the Risk of Deploying Mission Critical Applications in Virtualized Environments

      Explore Marketwire (Jun 23 2010) Green Desktop Virtualization , Green End User Experience

      ...he SAN affect business-critical application performance. Customers such as Barclay's Card Services, Kaiser Permanente and Unilever achieve significant cost savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing u... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Dell   IBM   EMC

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