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Kaiser Permanente


Health Affairs: Patient-physician email improves diabetes, hypertension care

Clinical Studies | Friday, July 09 2010
The use of secure patient-physician email in context of a comprehensive EHR is associated with the improved care for patients with diabetes and hypertension, according to Kaiser Permanente research published in the July issue of Health Affairs.
 

Images & the Health Information Exchange: A Work in Progress

Features | Monday, June 21 2010
Written by Jeff Byers
Some five dozen health information exchange (HIE) initiatives have cropped up across the nation enabling clinicians to share critical patient information with other caregivers in a timely fashion to allow swift, more-informed care. Currently, the sharing of medical images and radiology reports is very limited through HIEs, but forward-thinking clinicians and IT leaders are working to make seamless image sharing a radiological reality.
 

Kaiser Permanente: Medicaid enrollment rising while states face fiscal challenges

Industry News | Friday, February 26 2010
As economic conditions deteriorated and unemployment rose from 5.5 percent in June 2008 to 9.5 percent in June 2009, national Medicaid enrollment grew at a rate not seen since the early days of program implementation in the late 1960s, according to a June 2009 data snapshot on Medicaid enrollment recently released from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.
 

Kaiser's stolen device contains data on 15,500 California patients

Top Stories | Thursday, January 14 2010
Last month an external electronic data storage device containing patient health information for approximately 15,500 Northern California members of health insurance company Kaiser Permanente was stolen from an employee’s car at the employee’s home in Sacramento, Calif.
 

Inaugural nursing informatics program names first participants

Industry News | Wednesday, January 13 2010
Ellen Makar of Yale-New Haven Health System, Conn., and Sandra Ng of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center were both selected by the Alliance for Nursing Informatics to participate in a two-year Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program.
 

Kaiser Permanente, VA launch veterans health exchange

Industry News | Friday, January 08 2010
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente recently launched a pilot medical data exchange program in San Diego enabling clinicians from VA and Kaiser Permanente to obtain views of a patient's health using EHR information through the National Health Information Network.
 

Kaiser scores $54M+ in NIH/ARRA grants

Industry News | Wednesday, October 14 2009
Kaiser Permanente has received 22 grants worth more than $54 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
 

Report: Recession drives steep hike in Medicaid enrollment

Top Stories | Friday, October 02 2009
The recession has put more people on Medicaid and sharply increased state spending on the program, forcing state officials to cut costs even with help coming from the federal government through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
 

California P4P improves clinical quality, IT and patient experience

Industry News | Thursday, August 27 2009
A report by California’s Integrated Healthcare Association found that a Pay-for-Performance (P4P) program has shown improvement in the areas of clinical quality and patient experience, as well as IT infrastructure and processes during 2008.
 

Kaiser: Recession has EDs under severe pressure

Top Stories | Tuesday, August 11 2009
With its deleterious impact on employment and health insurance, the recession has put emergency departments (EDs) across the United States under a tremendous amount of pressure, according to a report issued by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
 

AJMC: EHRs help keep cardiac patients healthy

Clinical Studies | Thursday, August 06 2009
An EHR program cut cardiac deaths by 73 percent through linking coronary artery disease patients and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists with an EHR. It also kept the patients healthy two years after they left the program by keeping them in touch with their caregivers electronically, according to a randomized trial published in this month's American Journal of Managed Care.
 

EHR-assisted mammo program increases screening rate

Clinical Studies | Tuesday, July 14 2009
A program aimed at screening for breast cancer when it is most treatable boosted mammography rates by more than 17 percentage points, according to research by Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The program used an EHR to identify women who would be due for a mammogram and contacted them via postcards, automated voice messages and personal phone calls.
 

EHRs improve chronic illness care

Industry News | Thursday, July 09 2009
Specialty care physicians can improve the health of high-risk patients by reviewing EHRs and proactively providing e-consultations and treatment plan recommendations with primary care physicians, according to the results of a Kaiser Permanente pilot project published online July 9 in the British Medical Journal.
 

Kaiser EHR pilot reduces cardiac deaths by 73%

Industry News | Wednesday, April 01 2009
Kaiser Permanente has improved the heart attack survival rate for its members in Colorado through a program that links coronary artery disease patients and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists, with an EHR and advanced clinical care registry.
 

Kaiser inks $500M healthcare IT deal with IBM, job cuts on horizon

Top Stories | Tuesday, March 17 2009
Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has signed a $500 million data-center management contract with IBM, which could put as many as 860 IT jobs in jeopardy as part of the strategic realignment.
 

Microsoft, Kaiser to share info across e-health systems

Top Stories | Monday, June 09 2008
Microsoft and healthcare insurance provider Kaiser Permanente have announced plans to share data between their e-health systems as part of Microsoft's efforts to provide a central online repository for patient health records.
 

Terminology mapping key to effectively managing patient information

Conference News | Wednesday, December 31 2003
Clinical terminology mapping is essential for creating an effective national health information infrastructure, according to Simon Cohn, MD, MPH, chair of the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics and associate executive director of Kaiser Pe
 
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Feature: U.S. needs national strategy to curb imaging overutilization

Medical imaging overutilization--a growing concern in the U.S.--exposes patients to unnecessary radiation, while also adding to rising healthcare costs, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. In an interview, William R. Hendee, PhD, lead author, reviewed various methods by which medical imaging could be curtailed.

Radiology: Prelim study shows CE breast CT outperforms CT, mammo

Dedicated contrast-enhanced (CE) breast CT delivered significantly improved conspicuity of malignant breast lesions, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), compared with unenhanced breast CT and mammography, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

Radiology: Rad role may evolve as image-guided biopsies trend up

CT, ultrasound and MRI have helped shift biopsy techniques away from more invasive approaches toward image-guided percutaneous techniques, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology. The trend toward less-invasive approaches translates into enhanced safety and efficiency and could lead to more interaction between patients and radiologists.

CMS Webinar: Incentive payments to offset EHR adoption, not reimburse

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive payments are not considered reimbursement for money expended on EHR technology, but are intended to offset the cost associated with adoption and ongoing meaningful use, according to CMS during an Aug. 12 webinar.

CMS webinar: Eligible professionals can expect EHR incentives in 2011

Funding incentives for EHR use is the main goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) meaningful use initiative, and there are incentive programs for both hospitals and eligible professionals, according to Elizabeth Holland, health insurance specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke during a CMS-sponsored webinar Aug. 8.

Webinar: Stage 1 of meaningful use is for quality reporting acclimation

Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use incentives aim to strike a balance between the overall goal of EHR use and widespread adoption, while avoiding added work, said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical informatics officer at Elsevier Health Services, during a HIMSS webinar titled “Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care.”

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