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...Letter in response to this article: Here’s raising a glass to the cause of bottle recycling / From MS Broussard, Santa Monica, CA, US...
...Prof Jeffrey Fessel Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, US Director, Clinical Trials Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Letter in response to this...
...Robert Pearl, chief executive of Permanente Medical Group, which provides physician services to the Kaiser Permanente managed care group, says Kaiser is building a hybrid telemedicine service using some...
...Epic claimed the theft appeared “to have been masterminded in Mumbai, then carried out in both India and the US” while TCS was consulting for a customer of Epic’s, US healthcare group Kaiser Permanente....
...Even companies that start with freewheeling ambitions to be different need “guard rails”, which is how Kaiser Permanente, the US healthcare group, described the non-negotiable rules it used to manage its...
...“If we want to be the best we must learn from the best — whether Kaiser Permanente in California, the Mayo Clinic, Alzira in Spain, Apollo in India or anyone else — and I look forward to developing further...
...California-based Kaiser Permanente, for example, is delivering care in some cases for about 25 percent less than competitors, and in Pennsylvania, Geisinger Health System is setting new standards for quality-of-care...
...Similar tales are found in places such as the Mayo Clinic or Kaiser Permanente group, which also shun the FFS model....
...Dr Toni Yancey, a director at UCLA’s Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, says that even calories from unhealthy foods such as pizza and hamburgers have more nutritional value than those in soft drinks...
...Large health systems, like the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Kaiser Permanente, along with an increasing number of hospitals, have adopted electronic medical record systems....
...In 2008 Kaiser Permanente had revenues of $40bn....
...His first serious in-company work was with AT&T and, over the years, he has worked with corporations from Boeing to Microsoft and organisations from Nasa to Kaiser Permanente....
...Kaiser Permanente said this was partly a knock-on effect of other companies cutting employees, who then lose their healthcare coverage and reduce demand for the insurer’s services....
...In the US, the healthcare organisations that are most advanced – the Veterans Health Administration, Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger Health System – have invested at least as much in training and implementation...
...The integrated Kaiser Permanente model is also praised in a background paper the BMA prepared for this week’s debates....
...Kaiser Permanente, one of the better managed care organisations, has been shown to produce better care at lower costs than Britain’s National Health Service – a finding that has generated controversy in...
...The move is likely to attract interest from big US insurers and providers such as United Health and Kaiser Permanente, Discovery of South Africa, Bupa, PPP and Norwich Union in the UK, and possibly German...
...Late last year, the FDA awarded contracts worth about $1.4m each with United Healthcare’s Ingenix unit, Vanderbilt University, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and the research unit of Kaiser Permanente, the...
...The study, published by the journal Lancet, was sponsored by the FDA and used data collected from patients of Kaiser Permanente California over a three-year period....
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