2006-2007 NewsNote: Some links on this page are Kaiser Permanente internal only. 2012 | 2010-2011 | 2008-2009 | 2006-2007 Kaiser Considers Technology to Care For Patients at HomeEast Bay Business Times, August 31, 2007Smart "Band-Aids" that monitor your blood sugar level throughout the day. Pacemakers imbedded with chips that alert your doctor if your heart rate goes out of whack. Technologies that let you talk to your physician via your home television set. Right now, they're just toys that lucky researchers think about - and sometimes get to play with - at Kaiser Permanente's year-old Sidney R. Garfield Center for Healthcare Innovation...... Read this article Technology Where Ideas Come to LifeInside KP: Northern California Portal, May 2007Paul Feigenbaum, MD, put on glasses, ear plugs, and gloves with weights and crawled into a hospital bed. For a few moments, those props impaired his sight, hearing, and sense of touch so he felt what it was like to be an elderly patient. The insight and empathy he and the other participants gained from the exercise could help change how KP cares for this population. Dr. Feigenbaum is part of the KP Aging Network, a group of leaders from across the program who work toward solving common issues elderly members face.
Kaiser Experimenting on Hospitals of the FutureSan Francisco Business Times, May 4, 2007
How Patient Care Works, Providing Nurses with the Stations They NeedMedical Construction & Design, November/December 2006 p. 59
For the past two years, researchers at Nurture by Steelcase have focused their efforts on understanding how patient care is delivered, and how to best accommodate the people delivering that care. How Hospital Design Saves LivesBusiness Week, August 15, 2006
Design changes can cut infection rates, lower physician errors, improve staff performance, and make all the difference in delivering care. Managing Hospital Construction ProjectsFacilitiesnet.com, July 2006The facility in Anaheim has served its purpose so well that it is being replaced by a new and updated one, Kaiser's Garfield Center for Health Care Innovation in San Leandro, Calif. In addition to serving as a design experimentation lab, the new space will be used by medical staff members to stage mock emergencies. 
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Kaiser Permanente is testing its future in a nondescript San Leandro office park. Its Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center, named after Kaiser's founding physician, opened last summer and functions as a laboratory for experimenting with new design elements, technologies and approaches.