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May 17, 2012

Kaiser Permanente Honored for Health Information Technology Innovation with CIO 100 Award

Kaiser Permanente was recognized by IDG’s CIO magazine with a CIO 100 Award for using information technology in innovative ways that provide value. The award was specifically in honor of Kaiser Permanente’s first-of-its-kind Mobile Health Vehicle. The MHV increases and extends access to critical health care services, including a broad range of screenings, for Kaiser [...]

Kaiser Permanente Completes Electronic Health Record Implementation

Kaiser Permanente announced today that every medical facility within the health system is now equipped with Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect®, the largest private sector electronic health record in the world. Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in Northern California are the most recent facilities to complete the final phase of electronic health record implementation, [...]

Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s leading health care provider and not-for-profit health plan, received 12 Stage 7 Awards from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The Stage 7 Award honors hospitals that have achieved the highest level electronic health record implementation. The 12 awards were presented at the HIMSS 2010 annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. [...]

Three Denver Area Health Care Organizations Link Patient Electronic Health Records to Improve Care and Safety

Three of the largest Front Range health care organizations are taking an unprecedented leap forward in health care reform by improving care for more than a million Coloradans with an interconnected electronic patient record exchange system. The Children’s Hospital, Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Exempla Healthcare are now live with an electronic health record (EHR) “health [...]

VA and Kaiser Permanente Invite Veterans to Participate in Health Record Pilot Program

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente today announced an exciting program designed to improve care and services to our Nation’s heroes. VA and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record (EHR) information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human [...]