NewsNote: Some links on this page are Kaiser Permanente internal only. Flu Season: A Little Planning Upfront Optimizes ResultsKP Link, February 2012“Wedding planner.” That’s how Scott Heisler, RN, Innovation Consultancy, describes his role at the Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, California, where he is designing a simulation for Northern California flu clinic practitioners to get ready for the flu season. Read this article Seeing Is Believing: Video Ethnography Helps KP Deliver Best ServiceKP Link, February 2012When Laura Nagel, national program leader for Medication Safety Strategy, asked regions throughout Kaiser Permanente to assess whether the medication rooms in their clinics were free of noise and distraction, the initial results were a bit discouraging. Read this article U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and DTSC Broaden California’s Push for Safer Consumer Products through Key Alliance various media outlets, January 12, 2012Consumers will see added momentum in California’s groundbreaking push for safer alternatives to toxic chemicals in everyday products following the signing of a landmark agreement today by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This formal agreement outlines principles by which DTSC and U.S. EPA will cooperate to reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products, create new business opportunities in the emerging safer consumer products economy, and reduce the burden on consumers and businesses struggling to identify what’s in the products they buy for their families and customers. Read this article | Read this article | View a video Failure as a Path to SuccessThe Health Care Blog, October 31, 2011In a world that celebrates success, the idea of rewarding failure may seem counterintuitive. Failure and the learning that comes from it from it are essential ingredients of success, something that innovative organizations understand. They create environments where failure is expected and the only “true failure” is a failure to learn when things don’t go as planned. Read this article The Innovation Learning Network Wants To Cure What Ails The Health IndustryFastCompany, October 2011As anyone who has tried to navigate the maze of health care organizations in the U.S. knows, Flu Clinics to Include More Preventive ServicesInside KP Northern California, August 18, 2011The flu shot clinics aren’t just about flu shots anymore, as more and members will find out this fall. At many clinics around Northern California, when members register for the influenza vaccine, they may be reminded about other preventive services that are due. KP employees from around the region recently got together at Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center to practice integrating colorectal screening during flu shot clinics. Read this article New alarm management system improves patient care and simplifies technical supportThe KPIT Hub, July 13, 2011 The technology used to monitor hospital patients and alert clinical staff has been evolving. Over the years, the variety and proliferation of communications systems used on a single hospital bed has grown far beyond the classic nurse call button. That call button remains, but it is now only one of a number of communication systems used to monitor patient vital signs, alert staff on clinical device operation, and call attention to potential emergencies. Read this article Garfield Center: Ground Zero for Alarm Management TestingKP Link, July 2011At any given Kaiser Permanente hospital, bio-medical alerts to handheld devices comprise the alarm system that alerts medical staff to a variety of issues. The system — which was originally designed to transmit bedside alarms to devices such as pagers, Vocera, Spectralink, or Cisco phones — was sending alerts from various patient-monitoring systems. It became clear to all involved that a new, more integrated process was needed. Read this article A Look Inside KP’s Mobile and Micro ClinicsKP Link, July 2011This video provides a historic perspective on the micro clinic and mobile van — two alternative delivery models that demonstrate KP’s commitment to improving health. Watch the Video Video games for the health care industry?KPIT NewsSource, May 23, 2011Your patient is in labor. Suddenly, there are complications and you need to decide the best course of action to take. Don’t worry, it’s only a video game—one called “Dr. Hero,” that helps clinicians train for potential obstetric emergencies. Read this article Kaiser Permanente "Gamification" Video Featuregamespot.com, April 25, 2011GameSpot visited KP's Gaming for Health Day at the Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center and got a closer look at how medical games can be used to help people. Watch the video. New Kaiser Center Showcases Health Care Innovationsmartplanet.com, April 13, 2011On Monday, Kaiser Permanente opened its Center for Total Health, located a couple blocks from the U.S. Capitol. The space, next to a new Kaiser medical facility, will serve as a conference and education center and a showcase for innovative health care technology. Read this article. Robotic Legs Among Items Tested at Kaiser LabsSF Chronicle, January 26, 2011Ted Kilroy's jowls quivered as he gripped the high-tech canes that held him erect while a pair of robotic braces lifted his paralyzed legs, one after the other, across a little-known laboratory in San Leandro where health giant Kaiser evaluates experimental medical technologies. Read this article. The Robotics Route to Medical RenewalCNet, January 22, 2011Robotics are already helping doctors perform surgery, but special robotic limbs could someday soon be assisting those who can't walk or those who can't lift. At a demonstration day put on Thursday by Kaiser Permanente, the health care giant gathered about 100 physicians and health care professionals to check out, and give feedback on, future technologies being evaluated for rollout. Read this article. Up Close With Berkeley Bionics' eLEGS: An Exoskeleton That Allows Paraplegics to WalkFast Company, January 21, 2011When Berkeley Bionics first unveiled eLEGS, an artificially-intelligent bionic exoskeleton that helps paraplegics to walk, it created a stir throughout the tech community. Everyone wondered: Could this be the big breakthrough that gets wheelchair users back onto their feet? After witnessing the eLEGS in action this week at Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Innovation Center, we're hopeful that the answer is yes. Read this article. Kaiser Permanente's Digital Operating Room is on the Cutting Edge of Safety and EfficiencyAdvance for Nurses, November 2, 2010One of the central components of Kaiser Permanente's Sidney R. Garfield Health Care
Innovation Center is its Digital Operating Room of the Future - a universal room of
standardized layout and size, designed to expand with future technologies, instrumentation Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center Combines Tech, Common Sense, Lurking Helper RobotsFast Company, October 18, 2010Experiments in "teledermatology," augmented reality orientation for patients, and real-time location systems to improve nurses' efficiency--these are among the ideas at various stages of development at the Garfield Innovation Center, a Kaiser Permanente-affiliated hub in San Leandro, California. Read this article. Kaiser Permanente Center Experiments With Incorporating Technology Into Hospital Design
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