The Los Angeles Times is running a story by reporter Daniel Costello today confirming that George Halvorson has unexpectedly replaced interim chief information officer Bruce Turkstra. Philip Fasano has now taken over as the third chief information officer to attempt to get the HealthConnect project back on track.
The choice of Fasano seems as unusual [...]
The East Bay Business Times recently ran an interesting article, by Marie-Anne Hogarth, on the first forays into “social media” by Kaiser Permanente. The article quotes Dmitriy Kruglyak, (link via Google) who heads up Trusted.MD, and who is moderating a discussion at the upcoming Consumer Health World conference, “Open Healthcare: Learning to Live in [...]
For the third year, Tim has given HIStalk readers a chance to nominate and vote on companies, issues, and people who are important or notable in healthcare information technology. The coverage of the issues surrounding the Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect project was voted story of the year. Tim makes the revealing of the top [...]
My BlackBerry woke me shortly after midnight with an alert that the Los Angeles Times had posted a front page story on the challenges the Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect problem is facing. The article is an amazing, honest insight into a project that has serious implications with regard to the health of Kaiser Permanente, and [...]