Initiative Promotes Tracking Exercise as a Vital Sign
A couple years back, Kaiser Permanente began tracking its members exercise habits—Exercise Vital Sign—as a regular part of checking temperature,…
The ONC’s Kevin Larsen on Meaningful Use
More highlights from Health IT Week: Kevin Larsen, MD, medical director of meaningful use for the Department of Health and…
Using EHR Data to Measure Improvement: Interviews with Experts
During Health IT Week, an event held at the Center for Total Health—sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and…
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. According to the CDC, 210,203 women in the United States were diagnosed with…
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…
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…
Project ECHO: Expanding Access to Specialty Health Care
As readers of the blog know, we are big on highlighting innovations in health. When we hear of programs and…
Robust Personal Health Records Attract Patients
We often cover topics about connectivity, and today, we have a significant milestone coming out of Kaiser Permanente in the…