Kaiser Permanente

Fierce Healthcare | May 17, 2018

Kaiser Permanente is joining forces with the mayors of some of the country's largest cities to combat homelessness and housing insecurity. The health system will invest $200 million in initiatives to improve access to affordable housing through a partnership with Mayors and CEOs for U.S. Housing Investment, it announced on Friday. Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson said at a press briefing that the investment reflects Kaiser's commitment to promoting total person and community health....

FierceHealthcare | December 18, 2018

Some major health systems and trade groups threw their weight behind a Trump administration proposal which would require pharmaceutical companies to include the list price of their drugs in TV ads targeted at consumers. The public comments come after CMS announced a proposal earlier this year to require drug companies to include the 30-day list price of drugs in direct-to-consumer television ads for certain prescription drugs and biological products reimbursed through Medicare or Medicaid. Nearl...

Healthcare IT News | February 19, 2019

Kaiser Permanente announced that it will open a School of Medicine in the summer of 2020, with a strong concentration on using 21st century technology to prepare physicians for healthcare in the digital age. Physician burnout is rampant — and today’s technologies, notably EHRs — are widely cited as being among the chief reasons. It’s also worth noting, of course, that Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner last week at HIMSS19 countered that consensus by telling Healthcare IT New...

FierceHealthcare | March 12, 2019

Kaiser Permanente is ramping up its investments in addressing chronic homelessness, the health system announced at the annual South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. Kaiser announced it will provide $3 million over a three-year period to Community Solutions' Built for Zero initiative, which uses real-time data to help community leaders understand the dynamics of homelessness in their respective communities. The 15 Kaiser Permanente communities that will participate in the partnership...