I was advised yesterday evening by a Kaiser Foundation Health Plan human resources manager that, effective immediately, my administrative leave was being downgraded to involuntary unpaid leave. Since November 6, I have been on paid administrative leave, pending the outcome of a review of the Kaiser Permanente Electronic Assets Policy. Specifically, I was [...]
The increasing cost of healthcare in America can be attributed to a number of causes, but for many of us, the growing presence of computers at our doctor’s offices adds more to our monthly premiums than we might care to know about.
Kaiser Permanente is on track to spend over $2.6 billion this year on information [...]
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced that they have reached a settlement, which will likely end the Attorney General’s investigation into the role the company and its remaining directors and officers played in HP’s identity and privacy ethical failures. The company will pay $13.5 million, “hire an independent director, and expand [...]
When I woke up, on the morning of November 3, I did not know how that day would end. I did know that the stability and integrity of Kaiser Permanente, an organization I believe in, was being challenged. Later that afternoon, the organization began notifying the first of our employees that their positions [...]