IOM Issues New Report: Best Care at Lower Cost
Today, the Institute of Medicine issued a report, Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care…
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month: Find Inspiration for Changing Behavior
Obesity prevention and treatment are recurring topics explored in this blog, and for good reason. According to the official website…
Study Finds Link Between Childhood Obesity and Gallstones
A study published this week in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition indicates that overweight and obese children are…
Breastfeeding Info Straight From the Experts: Join the Tweetchat
In honor of National Breastfeeding Month, MomsRising (@MomsRising) and Kaiser Permanente (@KPThrive) and are hosting a tweetchat tomorrow—Thursday, August 23,…
Supporting the Total Health of Our Communities
A significant part of total health is the overall health and well being of our communities, and we try to…
Connecting People to a Healthy Future with Kaiser Permanente CIO Philip Fasano
Regular readers of this blog may remember when we covered the NASA mHealth workshop held in June at the Center…
Engaging Employees for Better Health and Well-Being
When we consider that most of us spend more than 2,000 hours each year at our jobs, workplace health suddenly…
It’s National Farmers Market Week: Celebrate Locally!
What better time to celebrate the growth of farmers markets than a warm day in August, when fresh corn, tomatoes…