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Kaiser Docs Make House Sales Calls
Well, this is certainly a new frontier in personalized medicine. The Denver Business Journal is reporting that Kaiser Permanente doctors in Colorado are visiting potential members in conjunction with Kaiser sales associates in order to talk up the big HMO's advantages: Last August, the health maintenance organization HMO...
Credibility and Creativity: A Conversation With Kaiser Permanente's George C. Halvorson
This paper presents an interview with George C. Halvorson wherein he talks about returning to Kaiser's strengths - its sixty-year-plus history of integrated health care organization and its power base along the Pacific Coast and about how he and his physician colleagues intend to leverage clinical information technology to improve...
Enterprise Edition Helps Standardize Processes Companywide at Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente has selected salesforce.com to provide CRM on a national level, and to create company-wide oversight of the health plan provider's sales efforts. Kaiser Permanente will use Salesforce to improve reporting of its sales pipeline, and to track follow-up on sales leads. Kaiser Permanente is one of the 16,900...
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Chicago-Based Speaker/Author Concurs with Research Finding of Using Journaling as a Tool to Combat Obesity and Other Health Problems
CHICAGO, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research found that dieters who kept track of what they ate in a food journal lost twice as much weight compared to those who didn't. These finding are no surprise to Chicago-based author and...
Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Hospital Further Increases Patient Safety with Medication Bar Code Scanning
It's All In The Wrist PANORAMA CITY, Calif. -- Kaiser Permanente announced today that Panorama City is the first Kaiser Permanente hospital in Southern California to implement medication bar code scanning technology to confirm that the right patient gets the prescribed medication in the appropriate dose. ...
MGD 64 to Sponsor National Triathlons
Events Include Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles Life Time Fitness Triathlon Series Races MILWAUKEE, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- MGD 64 today announced it will sponsor three upcoming 2008 Life Time Fitness Triathlon Series Race to the Toyota Cup events: the July 12 Life Time Fitness Triathlon in...
Kaiser Permanente Fontana Announces Plans for New State-of-the-Art Replacement Hospital
FONTANA, Calif. -- Kaiser Permanente today announced plans to build a 482,078 square foot, 314-bed hospital on its Fontana Medical Center campus. The seven-story hospital will be joined by a 55,774 square foot Hospital Support Building and a 32,100 square foot central utility plant. The new facility will...
Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Keeping a Food Diary Doubles Diet Weight Loss
Study is one of few trials to recruit large percentage of African American participants PORTLAND, Ore., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Keeping a food diary can double a person's weight loss according to a study from Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research. The findings, from one of the...
Workers Settle Contract at 10 Bay Area Nursing Homes
Tentative Agreement Shows Strength of 'One Healthcare Union' Approach OAKLAND, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Nursing home workers at 10 Northern California facilities have reached a tentative agreement on a groundbreaking new contract covering more than 1,000 employees, which will give them some of the highest nursing...
Mind vs. midsection
So much has been written about the ill effects of a potbelly on your overall health that we're almost ashamed to hit you with another possible repercussion: dementia. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente found that subjects with a sagittal abdominal diameter of 9.8 inches -- the distance a stomach protrudes from...
Kaiser Permanente and Discovery Health Host Interactive Town Hall Forum to Address Childhood Obesity
Approximately 16 Percent of Adolescents between the Ages of Twelve and Nineteen Are Obese Kaiser Permanente: WHEN: <Monday, June 30, 2008, 7:30 p.m. <WHERE: <The Getty Center <Museum Lecture Hall ...
You're my everything
You're My Everything: William A. Bonner Jr., wed Meka A. Parks at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. CA The radiant bride is an R.N. for Kaiser Permanente in the city of Richmond. CA. Her lucky man is currently a teacher at the Oakland Unified School District. Both the bride and...
Staying Social May Keep Dementia at Bay
The key to a healthy mind in old age may lie in an active social life, a new study suggests. "If you are socially engaged, you are at lower risk of dementia," said Dr. Valerie C. Crooks, a researcher at the Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California....
Treatment for Cigarette, Alcohol & Drug Use During Pregnancy Dramatically Improves Outcomes for Mom and Baby, Kaiser Permanente Study Shows
Largest study to date examined nearly 50,000 pregnant women OAKLAND, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse early in their pregnancy can achieve the same health outcomes as pregnant women with no substance abuse, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published...
60 Medical Clinics to Deploy 90 Self-Service Kiosks for Optimized Patient Check-in and Payment
Healthcare Automation Project is One of the Nation's Largest and Continues Kaiser Permanente's Market-Leading Electronic Integration Efforts PASADENA, Calif. -- Kaiser Permanente deployed its first "KP Self-Service Kiosk" to optimize the patient check-in and payment experience in an innovative project that will include over 60 medical clinics in...
Paul B. Records Named Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, for Kaiser Permanente
OAKLAND, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (KFHP/H) has announced the appointment of Paul B. Records as senior vice president and chief human resources officer for the organization. Records has been leading the national human resources function on an acting basis...
Parents Confused about Nutrition and Exercise Best Practices, According to Recent Survey
One in Five Parents Surveyed Report Children Who are Overweight or At Risk of Being Overweight Disney Family.com Launches "Healthy Families" Initiative with Kaiser Permanente NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- While more than two-thirds of parents surveyed say they are concerned about the healthy ingredients in the...
Edelman promotes Bean, Kang
Edelman has promoted Kali Bean and Hannah Kang to account executive. Bean works in Edelman's technology practice and provides public representation account management for Autodesk and BlueArc. She has also assisted with fundraising events, including Power of the Purse and Canstruction. She is a member of the...
Bill would increase access to telemedicine
WASHINGTON -- Management of chronic conditions isn't the only advantage associated with telemedicine--it's also likely to increase access to health care in remote, rural areas. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., in April introduced a bill that, if passed, would increase access to telehealth services by the Medicare population--to date,...
Fitch Rates Valley Health System $79.5MM Bonds 'CC'
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'CC' rating to approximately $79.5 million of bonds listed below issued by Valley Health System, California VHS. Fitch's 'CC' rating indicates that payment default to bondholders appears probable. Although payments to bondholders are current, the rating reflects VHS' board filing...
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