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Social Determinants of Health

Social support promotes health
Epidemiologists struggle to measure the “social determinants of health,” but the simple truth is that American society [MORE]

Battle of the Biobanks

Eric Dishman
Biobanks seem to be the “in thing.” The Department of Veterans Affairs has its “Million Veterans” program; Geisinger Health [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente’s Research Biobank Is Currently Largest (Non-Governmental) in the US

Research Biorepository Kaiser Permanente
This piece should be read with an eye to the previous story about hacking DNA sequencers. The [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente’s Proposed Medical School

Medical Education
Kaiser-Permanente (Kaiser is the insurer; Permanente is the medical practice group) has ten million subscribers and has been a [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente’s “HouseCalls”

Crane and Truong HouseCalls MDs
At MedicalAutomation’s 2009 conference, Dr. Alan Dappen described his telemedicine practice named “Doc Talker.” For a [MORE]

Kaiser’s Model Hospital at Garfield Innovation Center

Kaiser Permanente Innovation Center
In a former 37,000 sq. ft. warehouse, Kaiser Permanente created its Garfield Innovation Center (San Leandro, [MORE]

Kaiser’s Mobile App

Kaiser Permanente has introduced a mobile app that gives its 9 million subscribers cell phone access to their medical [MORE]

Most Influential People in Health Care

Aetna’s CEO Mark Bertolini, Chairman John Bluford III of the American Hospital Association, WellPoint CEO Angela Braley, AHRQ Director [MORE]

Why Biorepositories Are Important

Human Chromosome with Telomeres
Recently, Kaiser Permanente completed phase one of its biorepository project, where it collected blood samples from 100,000 [MORE]

Robots that Simulate Disease

This may be the ultimate medical simulation to date.  Kaiser Permanente in Ohio has installed a simulation facility that includes [MORE]

Kaiser Is Wired

After ten years and $4 billion, Kaiser Permanente has completed installations of an electronic health record system in its vast [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente to Create 100,000 Genome Data Bank in CA

"Spit-Kit"
What do you suppose would be the reaction to a news headline that an insurance company is undertaking the largest [MORE]

Sidney Garfield Health Care Innovation Center

Testing Technology
Kaiser Permanente has opened its Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, CA to conduct tests on medical [MORE]