Update: MoveOn.org is helping organize events across the country to urge Congress to override President Bush’s “reckless veto.”
The gist: President Bush has vetoed an important bill that would have helped expand insurance coverage for uninsured children. The only hope now is for fifteen additional Republicans to vote to support the bill in the House, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since November 3, I have received thousands of messages from my colleagues across Kaiser Permanente, as well as hundreds from other concerned individuals. Your messages of support have meant more to me than you can imagine. Those of you who offered helpful information, thank you. Many of you have asked important questions, [...]
If you had worked at Enron, WorldCom, or Qwest prior to their self-destruction, and if you had known about the issues that brought those organizations down, you would have had a responsibility to do something to try and fix whatever was wrong.
I believe that there’s something inhumane about standing by while people lose their jobs, [...]
Well, after nearly three weeks, I got a response. Just not the one I was hoping for.
From: Blogger HelpTo: Justen DealDate: Oct 31, 2006 1:12 PMSubject: Re: Your Blog*Spot Blog
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Thank you for your continued patience. We regret to inform you that due to a server malfunction, your uploaded images were lost and cannot be [...]