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• Push for removal of baby bottles with Bisphenol-A in UK

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 492
  A push is being made by many groups in the UK for the removal of baby bottles and other plastics that contain the controversial chemical Bisphenol-A. A group composed of scientists, charity workers, and National Childbirth Trust (NCT) representatives has made pleas to the government to force the removal of products ...
  18 hours ago

• The VA and Kaiser Permanente to Exchange Medical Records in San Diego – Pilot Program

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 532
  Patients need to give their permission to participate.  Once again the question comes up about the potential of making the VA system, Vista available to the private industry.  Back in  2008 there was a hospital that broke all records with time in bringing in the Vista records system in Los Angeles, but ...
  1 day ago

• Innovation and Learning at Kaiser Permanente – Interview With Chris McCarthy – Revised

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 532
  This week I had the chance to speak with Chris McCarthy, Innovation Learning Network Director and Innovation Specialist at Kaiser Permanentes Innovation Consultancy. I really enjoyed the conversation and learned quite a bit about what is happening today with bringing the ever changing world of innovation into ...
  1 week ago

• Photo Friday: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Springs

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 490
  This week’s photograph is of one Kaiser Permanente’s newest medical offices, in Colorado Springs, Colorado . In addition to this photo, I’m posting two panormic views, of the Briargate Senior Center (above) with Memorial Hospital Across the street, and one of the scenic viewpoint from I-25. There are some views ...
  1 week ago

• Southern California Nursing Students Are Awarded $256,500 in Scholarships from Kaiser Permanente

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 163
  Nursing students from 46 Southern California colleges received a financial boost today to help meet expenses and complete their education when Kaiser Permanente awarded 145 scholarships totaling $256,500. Kaiser Permanentes Deloras Jones RN Scholarship program has awarded more than $4 million to 1,942 students ...
  1 week ago

• Opioid Use Among Those with Depression

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 539
  Experts are concerned with a finding that suggests chronic pain patients with a history of depression are much more likely to receive prescriptions of opioid medications. Opioid medication include drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percodan, and Percocet. Researchers discovered chronic pain patients with a history ...
  1 week ago

• Kaiser Permanente: “60 Sustainable Seconds”

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  As part of a new initiative, every month Kaiser Permanente (KP) will feature an online video of an employee or physician who is doing something worthwhile in regards to healthcare and sustainability. The program is called 60 Sustainable Seconds with Kathy Gerwig, KP’s environmental stewardship officer and vice ...
  1 week ago

• Addressing The Problem Of Cost

  
  Colorado Health Insurance Insider — Authority: 573
  Ezra Klein recently interviewed George Halvorson , Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente (which operates our largest HMO here in Colorado).  Both the questions and answers were insightful and on target in terms of addressing the cost conundrum that is so often glossed-over in the health care reform debate. Mr. ...
  1 week ago

• Hospital misplaced baby’s body for days

  
  JusticeNewsFlash.com | Legal News | Lawyer Press Release — Authority: 482
  Legal news for California medical malpractice attorneys. A baby’s body was found after six days of being missing. California medical malpractice lawyer alerts-The body of a missing premature baby at Kaiser Permanente was found after six days. Sacramento, CA—A premature baby, born at 20 weeks, died just two short ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gemba Walk: Kaiser Permanente Colorado

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 490
  Finally, the opportunity to shadow one of my favorite physicians, Paulanne Balch, MD ! This is her in her practice environment, at Kaiser Permanente Hidden Lake Medical Office, near Denver, Colorado. I’ve known Paulanne for at least 6 years, but have never seen her practice. I think this fills out the knowledge of ...
  2 weeks ago

• AMIA 09: CHCF president calls for more Kaiserness to connect information

  
  News — Authority: 130
  Lest anyone doubt that healthcare is in dire need of connected information systems, Dr. Mark Smith offers this reminder: "You can walk into the hospital where you were born and the first thing they will ask you is, Are you on any medications? Do you have any conditions." That was but one of several memorable lines ...
  2 weeks ago

• Strategies for Prevention: Holly Potter’s blog

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 490
  Strategies for Prevention: Holly Potter’s blog – Yes, she has one. And you can link to it here. Tags: htpotter , Kaiser Permanente , leadership_blogs
  2 weeks ago

• Risk Of Male Sexual Dysfunction Increases Following Workplace BPA Exposure

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 145
  High levels of workplace exposure to Bisphenol-A may increase the risk of reduced sexual function in men, according to a Kaiser Permanente study appearing in the journal Human Reproduction, published by Oxford Journals. [1] The five-year study examined 634 workers in factories in China, comparing workers in BPA ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chemical in plastic bottles linked to impotence

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 566
  Source: MSNBC NEW YORK – Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that’s been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday. Heavy exposure to BPA, or bisphenol A, on the job was linked to impotence and lower sexual desire ...
  2 weeks ago

• EHR System Could Help Reduce Hip Fractures says Kaiser

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 131
  HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record system in California, is in the process of formulating a new osteoporosis prevention program that could significantly drop cases of hip fractures in the nation by 25 percent.Coined the world’s largest civilian EHR database, HealthConnect will assist the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Workplace BPA exposure increases risk of male sexual dysfunction

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  (Kaiser Permanente) Study found high levels of workplace exposure to Bisphenol-A may increase the risk of reduced sexual function in men. This is the first human study to look at the effect of BPA on the male reproductive system. Rodent studies have shown BPAs detrimental effect on male reproductive system. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Voice of the Audience: WHIT 5.0 “Beyond the PHR”

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 490
  We can listen to the thoughts of the audience as much as we listen to the thoughts of the panelists, and you. At today’s presentation at WHIT 5.0, I asked every audience member to write down something on a note card about what they heard today about using social media to engage patients and change the health care ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kaiser Permanente Has Wii Sports On Its Mind [Creative Marketing]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 819
  What better way for insurance company Kaiser Permanente to promote a healthy lifestyle than strapping television monitors playing Wii Sports to the heads of its marketing team? Members of the Kaiser Permanente "Pixmen" marketing team took to the halls of Honolulus Ala Moana Center mall yesterday to demonstrate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Great Swindle: Doctors, Hospitals, Pharma as Much to Blame as Insurers

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  While the health insurance industry’s immoral, amoral and, sometimes, illegal treatment of policyholders is an appropriate prime culprit and target in the current push for reform, the fact is that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 weeks ago

• Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  Kaiser Permanente . Ezra Klein interviewed Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson this week – and got two fascinating posts out of it so far (with the second part of the interview still to come.) The most interesting post for me was the one that included a number of graphs , including this one.  Ezra bills these ...
  3 weeks ago

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