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Update 11/7/06: The full text of Justen Deal’s email to all Kaiser employees has been archived here.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