Electronic Health Records

May 5 2008

Kaiser Permanente Completes Implementation of Outpatient Electronic Health Record

Kaiser Permanente announced that all of its 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia are covered by an outpatient electronic health record.

In addition, All of Kaiser Permanente's 13,000 physicians now have electronic access to their patients' medical records in every one of their 421 medical offices/clinics.

This milestone reinforces Kaiser Permanente's position as the industry leader in leveraging health information technology to improve patient care and service.

Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect™ is the world's largest privately funded electronic health record. Deployment of KP HealthConnect™ began in April 2004 in Hawaii and concluded this month in Northern California—completing this ambitious effort in just four years.

The deployment of KP HealthConnect™ has proven to be integral to improving patient safety, coordinating care, enhancing documentation, facilitating clinical decision making and adhering to evidence-based clinical guidelines, and provider and operational efficiency.

For more information, read this press release.