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Kaiser rolling out its EMR nationwide: After five years of fits, starts and controversy, Kaiser Permanente has begun rolling out its $4 billion HealthConnect EMR system nationwide. In Atlanta the marketing is backed by radio ads, even though the company's Web site supports only Internet Explorer 5.5 or later. The technical conversion began...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Kaiser Permanente, EMR, Public Relations, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-03
Is WellCare the Countrywide of health care?: Is WellCare the Countrywide of health care?There are outfits that use their own facilites openlyKaiser Permanente is the most obvious and has done this for ages. They invented managed care and that's their model.When managed care started to grow, some companies followed that model, but most abandoned it.The case...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Kaiser Permanente, Countrywide, WellCare, health care; Discussion threads 2008-01-29
kaiser permanente CIO: Phil Fasano - Transcript: Dan Farber: Phil thanks for joining me. Phil Fasano: Thank you. Dan Farber: You've been at Kaiser Permanente for several months now, new at the job, almost parachuted in to fix some problems there. What's the size and scope of your operation there?...; Tags: Patient, Physician, Analytics, Health Care, Information, Member, Medical Record, Organization, Kaiser Permanente, Software-as-a-service Obviously, Administrator; Blog posts 2007-12-04
kaiser permanente CIO: Phil Fasano: In a CIO Vision Series interview, Phil Fasano CIO of Kaiser Permanente talks to ZDNet's editor-in-chief Dan Farber about transforming the United States' ailing health care system by making information more accessible online to its 9 millions members. He also discusses new technology innovations the company is developing to improve...; Tags: CIO, Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web 2.0, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Internet, Administrator; Blog posts 2007-12-04
Kaiser CHR Uses SAS to Give CDC Real-Time Data Access for Vaccine Studies: Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research (CHR), founded in 1964, is a non-profit research institute whose mission is to advance knowledge to improve health. The company wanted to ensure renewed funding for research from the Centers for Disease Control. SAS provides real-time access to remote data needed to perform studies...; Tags: Vaccine, Public Health, SAS Institute, Kaiser Permanente, Healthcare; Case studies

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Where is the money going in health care, and why?: I stumbled today upon an ADVANCE 2008 investment outlook for health care, and decided you might like me to hit some of the high points. The piece is written by James Brennan (right), managing director of VirtualCDO, a medical merger outfit whose Web page describes him as the...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Health Care, James Brennan, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatments: Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatmentsnot for me.My doctor shows up with an iphone, and I get a new doctor.nothing new! similar devices have been around for 5 years!Its amazing how a shiny animated new interface can help a concept sell something old...Yet another piece of poorly researched "so called...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, iPhone treatment, health care; Discussion threads 2008-03-17
Is the HTC Kaiser going to appear as the AT: Is the HTC Kaiser going to appear as the ATThe HTC Kaiser iphoneI am totally in love with this phone and i would literely do anything to get it. I htink it is awsome and i would die to have it (figure of speech of cource) but i wouldlove to...; Tags: Kaiser, High Tech Computer Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-03-13
Time to regulate drug prices?: A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, USA Today, and Harvard shows that most Americans now want drug prices regulated This is their chief concern with the industry. Safety and advertising are less important. The study's summary (PDF) shows people are having a tougher...; Tags: Compound, Industry, Genentech Inc., Risks, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-05
Google vs. Microsoft game is afoot: GPLMedicine advocate Fred Trotter (right) has given some inspection to both Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault, coming down solidly on Google's side. Trotter writes that Google Health's privacy policies and APIs are superior to those of Microsoft HealthVault, and its access control system looks better. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Trotter, Games, Security, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Kaiser rolling out its EMR nationwide: Kaiser rolling out its EMR nationwideWhat happens when... someone gets a court order for sequestration of their private medical records?If [i]that[/i] isn't a "feature of the system" then the whole thing gets shut down.RE: Kaiser rolling out its EMR nationwideRead Halvorson's book, "Health Care Reform Now!" to understand why the...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, EMR, Kaiser, health care; Discussion threads 2008-03-03
BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent app: BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent appHybrid Blackberry Patent App not new(s)Aside from the trackball, hasn't this been done already?RE: BlackBerry with slide-out keyboard described in new Patent appDid anyone notice the date this was originally filed - August 28, 2006??It appears this was only Published recently, but...; Tags: Keyboards, patent, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., new Patent app, Patent App, keyboard; Discussion threads 2008-02-28
What Google doesn't get: What Google doesn't getWhat's it all about, Alfie?No, it's not about transformation of data. It's about partnership marketing -- the winner here will be the player who is first to get a critical mass of providers to agree to use their system.Microsoft has a huge advantage because that's what...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, medical record, Google Inc., bank; Discussion threads 2008-02-22
MWC08: HTC announces updated HTC Advantage X7510 with a 16GB flash drive: MWC08: HTC announces updated HTC Advantage X7510 with a 16GB flash driveSweet!Sure it's too bulky for most people but I love that big screen. It's still smaller than my Dell Axim plus cell phone. I want this SmartPhone because it has all the features I like. It's okay that the...; Tags: Keyboards, Handhelds, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Advantage X7510, MWC08, USB flash drive; Discussion threads 2008-02-14
MWC08: HTC announces updated HTC Advantage X7510 with a 16GB flash drive: My absolute favorite Windows Mobile device over the last few years has been the HTC Advantage and my review on the device continues to be one of the most viewed posts on this blog. I was pleased to hear that HTC just announced an updated version of the device, also...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Mobile, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-02-10
Why Real ID is a flawed idea: Why Real ID is a flawed ideaIDs and privacyI'm not up on the tecnical aspects, but why couldn't a "smart" card either allow access to only part of a data base or one of separate data bases, e.g. allow access to driver's license info, but not social security info, etc?They...; Tags: Identity theft, Government, Operational accounting, federal government, flawed idea, REAL ID, Social Security; Discussion threads 2008-01-31
Enterprise SaaS and the cloud: ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Lloyd Taylor: LinkedIn's 'scaling guru' tackles the social graph: Earlier this month I spoke with Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn and formerly Google's director of global operations and Keynote Systems' vice president of technology and operations. He discusses his past experience building and scaling data centers at Google and how it differs from his new...; Tags: Google Inc., CIO, Data Center, Network, LinkedIn, Data Centers, Social Networking, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-19
What CIOs really want: My Between the Lines partner Larry Dignan attended Hewlett-Packard's analyst meeting in New York today where CEO Mark Hurd stated the obvious--all CIOs want to cut costs and simplify. It's an oversimplification, but Hurd excels at reducing problems to their bare essentials, with all the metrics needed to make...; Tags: CIO, Technology, RFID, Web 2.0, Strategy, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Internet, Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-11
Blogging gets corporate with the Blog Council: Blogging within the firewall is evolving from barely supervised or unsanctioned to a formal marketing and internal communications practice. The Blog Council, with founding companies AccuQuote, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, Dell, Gemstar-TV Guide, General Motors, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, and Wells Fargo, has a mission to share advice...; Tags: Blog, Blogging, Internet, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-07