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Kaiser testing tech to enhance medical treatment, privacy

Kaiser Permanente is re-inventing the house call. Cisco Systems, as part of the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, bussed a group of folks across the San Francisco Bay this week to tour Kaiser's Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center - a former check processing warehouse...

Tags: Patient, Privacy, Kaiser Permanente, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Kaiser links with Microsoft HealthVault

Kaiser Permanente will test data transfers to Microsoft HealthVault, creating a mechanism where over 2 million people will be able to quickly create Personal Health Records over the next year. The Kaiser system goes by the name My Health Manager. Kaiser spent an estimated...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-09

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 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, Human Resources, Internet, Phil Fasano, Enterprise Software, Software

Videos 2007-12-04

Additional Resources

Why electronic health records have far to go

Rather than being a hit piece at the current Administration's aims, the report focuses on the best practices of groups like Kaiser Permanente and the Cleveland Clinic, which have spent years adapting their work to the technology. Do these things and you can make things work. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-18

VA now loves its VistA software

In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Health IT prevents heart attacks?

Statins: heart attacks down, other deaths UPWhat the statin producers highlight is of course the small decrease in heart attacks. What they don't want you to know that due to statins the death rate due to *other* causes go UP, causing the total morbidity rate to actually be somewhat higher.This...

Tags: Food & Beverage, heart attack, Health IT

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?

Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health IT

Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health ITIs this like the internet all over again?Wasn't it Microsoft who said the internet is a useless fad right up until they released internet explorer?Sometimes, letting others make the mistakes first is wise.And when it comes to IT health care there are thousands of...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Health IT, health care, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

FAA reports breach; employee data at risk

A server at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration was illegally accessed online and personal identity information of employees was stolen, the agency said, according to a report by CNET. Of the 50 files in question on the computer, two of them had personal data about more than...

Tags: FAA, Aerospace & Defense, Operational Accounting, Manufacturing, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Health & Diet Manager for BlackBerry and Windows Desktop Bundle (Mobile)

Making Smarter, Healthier Choices... Today and Everyday! When you're constantly on the go and dealing with the demands of your hectic life, usually it's nutrition that gets put on the back burner. Quick and convenient can often end up replacing smart and healthy. But it doesn't have to be that...

Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Calorie, Health Care, Microsoft Windows, RIM BlackBerry, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-01-24

Health & Diet Manager for BlackBerry 3.01 (Mobile)

Making Smarter, Healthier Choices... Today and Everyday! When you''re constantly on the go and dealing with the demands of your hectic life, usually it''s nutrition that gets put on the back burner. Quick and convenient can often end up replacing smart and healthy. But it doesn''t have to be that...

Tags: Mobile, Calorie, Health Care, RIM BlackBerry, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-01-24

Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breach

Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breachRegulation neededI agree that regulation is needed. But until consumers really start pitching serious fits, and/or the courts start implementing some punitive damages with teeth, it's not going to happen. http://whistlersear.wordpress.comRE: Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health...

Tags: Regulations, health care, information technology, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breach, Georgia Blue Cross health, Failed IT cause, privacy breach, regulation

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO

It's finally official: XP is coming to the XOMS themselves have not accomplished this yet...with satisfactory results, so I doubt you will have any success. Why don't you try Xubuntu or Puppy Linux on a USB drive? Or sell it on eBay? http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/xubuntu-feisty-now-from-usb-drive/http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/03/25/puppy-linux-on-usb/TripleIIThen drop the Linux version"Let the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, XP IS, One Laptop Per Child project, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Drugs in Ophthalmology (Mobile)

Drugs in Ophthalmology Special Mobile/Desktop Bundle - only $59.95!powered by Skyscape Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Inc. The growth of new drugs entering the practice of ophthalmology requires both the resident and established ophthalmologist to understand and accurately prescribe the new pharmacologic armamentarium. Key FeaturesContains drug information compiled by experts from the United...

Tags: Mobile, Drug, Skyscape Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-06

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