Our apologies for the dearth of updates lately, but by no means does our temporary silence indicate that the Kaiser Krappola hasn’t continued to hit the fan. There’s too much to post individually, so please enjoy this Kaiser Permanente News Roundup:

Now that Kaiser has completed the nationwide roll out of the outpatient side of its [...]

[kaiserthrive.org's editor's note: We love birthday parties -- especially our own -- but even so we were taught to be humble on these occasions, and that it would be less than polite to toot our own horn. Not so George Halvorson, who appears to revel in insulting Kaiser Permanente victims by refusing to address [...]

[kaiserthrive.org editor's note: Probably the biggest misconception about Kaiser critics in general, and this web site in particular, is the belief that we have the unrealistic goal to "bring Kaiser down" (typical accusation from the occasional hate mail we receive). That couldn't be further from the truth. Our only purpose is, and always has [...]

Received 4/23/07 via the FixKP.org mailing list:
Page one of today’s Wall Street Journal has an article on the email I sent on November 3, along with a look at the events leading up to and following it. You can read the article through this link:
The Wall Street Journal, Critical Case: How an Email Jolted [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Kaiser replaces chief of digital records project — An outsider will take over the troubled $4-billion effort from Bruce Turkstra.
By Daniel Costello, Times Staff Writer
The senior executive overseeing Kaiser Permanente’s massive effort to digitize its members’ medical records is being replaced, the company said Monday, the latest sign of turmoil for [...]

Update 7/27/07: This post has been up long enough to make its point, so we’re shortening all of the last names to initials.
Update 2/27/07: A little bird tells us there’s a full-fledged witch hunt going on inside KP HealthConnect in response to this post. It’s being reported that Vijaya Rogers has been running around [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Kaiser has aches, pains going digital — Patients’ welfare is at stake in the electronic effort, experts say.
By Daniel Costello, Times Staff Writer
Kaiser Permanente’s $4-billion effort to computerize the medical records of its 8.6 million members has encountered repeated technical problems, leading to potentially dangerous incidents such as patients listed in [...]

Kaiser and Epic are going to great pains to do damage control and spread the positive PR in a new article by Wisconsin Technology Network, including planting a positive comment by a Kaiser employee who swears that HealthConnect is “beyond a doubt the best medical record” she has ever used. Unfortunately there are plenty [...]

Update 11/7/06: The full text of Justen Deal’s email to all Kaiser employees has been archived here.

According to a new web site, www.fixkp.org, that was recently created by Justen Deal, a Kaiser manager:
Kaiser Permanente could face losses of as much as $7 billion dollars over the next two years. These losses would be [...]