Marie-Anne Hogarth, with the East Bay Business Times, has what I believe is the first interview with Phil Fasano since he joined Kaiser Permanente back in February. In the first dose of honesty in a while, Fasano admits KP is falling far short on reliability when it comes to HealthConnect:
The first goal, Fasano says, [...]
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We see everything is going wrong.
This mole hill of a mountain.
The New York Times is wondering out loud whether the electronic health “cost savings” emperor has an empty wardrobe:
Saving money can be expensive.
Indeed, the quest to save dollars in the nation’s $2.1 trillion annual health care bill is becoming a lucrative market of its own. Thousands of companies, large and small, are pitching cost-saving ideas [...]
Hold onto nothing, as fast as you can.
With governance at Kaiser Permanente in shambles, it is sad but not surprising to hear that the respected musical chair method of reorganization is now in full swing at KP-IT, under Phil Fasano. The new orgchart has been drawn up and distributed. The only trouble? Well, there aren’t any names. Simple [...]
Has it come to this?
Kaiser Permanente reported its first quarter financial results late Friday. You’d be hard-pressed to find any actual coverage of the results, but if any newspaper cared enough to cover the financial health of the largest not-for-profit healthcare provider in the country, it would go something like…
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, the largest not-for-profit [...]