Kaiser Permanente Pilot Reduces Cardiac Deaths by 73 Percent
Kaiser Permanente has substantially improved the heart attack survival rate for its members in Colorado through an innovative program that links coronary artery disease patients, and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists, with an electronic health record and advanced clinical care registry. The results of this pilot were demonstrated March 27 at the Washington, D.C., briefing, "Reforming the Health Care Delivery System: A Team Approach," cosponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform, Kaiser Permanente and the AFL-CIO.
3.27.2009 | Case Study: Collaborative Cardiac Care Service – Collaborative Teams Improve Cardiac Care with Health Information Technology
Kaiser Permanente Colorado has significantly reduced the mortality rate for patients with heart disease, which is the nation’s number one killer for both women and men. Using team-based medical best practices and computer-supported care registries, doctors and clinical care teams reduced overall mortality by 76 percent and cardiac mortality by 73 percent.
3.27.2009 | Breast Cancer Screening Case Study: Better Care through Coordinated Teams and Health Information Technology
Kaiser Permanente has become a national leader in breast cancer screening, demonstrating the improved quality of care that results from coordinated health teams and electronic information sharing. Clinicians and staff are using these new and constantly improving IT tools to communicate and coordinate with each other between departments and with patients. These strategies made Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California region the national leader in breast cancer screening rates in 2008.
3.27.2009 | Case Study: Proactive Office Encounter and Employee Performance Sharing Program—Better Care through Coordinated Teams and Health Information Technology
Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California region has increased the use of preventive cancer screenings and effectively encouraged improved maintenance of cholesterol by coordinating care across all who touch patients lives and integrating incentives and information technology. The proactive office encounter program fosters cooperation among providers: Clinical care teams composed of doctors, nurses, medical assistants and other staff work together to identify opportunities to engage patients and provide support and encouragement for positive action across the continuum of health care services.
3.27.2009 | The Labor Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
The Partnership is based on the simple idea that the people who do the work every day understand the challenges and can come up with solutions that might not occur to those who are not as close to the work. Independent surveys of Kaiser Permanente employees have shown significant improvements in worker engagement, satisfaction and performance—including reduced workplace injuries—among workers who are involved in LMP activities.
3.27.2009 | Delivering the Right Care through Teams Supported by Technology
Improved quality must stand as a primary goal of health care reform. Universal coverage and access to care are critical to meeting this goal. The promise of improved care and service quality must guide each decision we make about how to reform health care. Kaiser Permanente believes that to achieve high-quality care, we must fundamentally reform how health care is paid for and delivered.
