Search Tag: Kaiser Permanente
2023 28 Dec
The International Hospital Federation (IHF) is partnering with US healthcare leader Kaiser Permanente to expand its Young Executive Leaders programme, which builds global leadership learning, networking, and information exchange among emerging executives in the healthcare sector. The IHF launched its Young Executive Leaders programme in 2019 as a way...Read more
2023 03 Aug
Jacqueline “Jackie” Carberry Baratian has been selected as the senior vice president and chief compliance and privacy officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. Baratian will oversee the organization’s commitment to ethics and compliance on behalf of Kaiser Permanente’s more than 12.6 million members. She will join Kaiser Permanente...Read more
2023 27 Jan
Kaiser Permanente has announced that Angela Dowling is the new regional president for Kaiser Permanente in Washington, effective February 13, 2023. In this role, she will lead the organization’s focus on providing integrated, high-quality health care and coverage in partnership with the executive medical director for the Washington Permanente Medical...Read more
2022 29 Nov
Kaiser Permanente has announced Paul Minardi, MD, as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the KP Medical Foundation — the nonprofit organization created to organize expertise, systems, resources, and standards to manage ambulatory care operations in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado and Washington state markets. Through the KP Medical...Read more
2022 07 Oct
Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated, nonprofit health care organization, has announced that Vivek Sharma, a business leader with extensive experience building and growing organizations through the application of technology and data, has been named to the boards of directors for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals — known...Read more
2021 11 Feb
The U.S. Kaiser Permanente system reports on the efficiency of its special telemonitoring programme for COVID-19 patients. You might also like: Remote Work and Virtual Consultations: Emergency Setup The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted demand for general medicine providers and reduced it for subspecialty services. To address...Read more
2020 13 Nov
An automated alert system that analyses electronic health records (EHR) can help identify high-risk in-hospital patients needing interventions by rapid response teams, resulting in decreased mortality, says a Kaiser Permanente-led study (Escobar et al. 2020). You might also like: AI Tool Helps to Reduce COVID-19 Mortality ...Read more
2019 05 Sep
A study of more than 135 million imaging exams, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has shown that computerised tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other scans have been increasing in use. Researchers from UC San Francisco, UC Davis and Kaiser Permanente showed that despite efforts to reduce imaging in medicine...Read more
2015 19 Jul
According to a study of a team of Kaiser Permanente, nurses have a significant impact on the success of a hospital. The study is published in Health Care Management Review . The Kaiser model is currently in use in eight states. It integrates hospitals, insurance and doctors' offices into one system. Several hospitals have tried and failed to replicate...Read more