Brandon Choi, Author at Permanente Medicine

Edward Ellison, MD, Health Care Leaders Warn of Physician Burnout

March 31, 2017

Edward Ellison, MD, co-CEO of The Permanente Federation and executive medical director/chairman of the board of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, committed to addressing the root causes of physician burnout in a Health Affairs blog post co-authored with the…

Reaching Beyond Facilities to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening

March 28, 2017

How Kaiser Permanente learned to reach beyond its walls to engage healthy members in colorectal cancer screening.

Kaiser Permanente’s Stroke EXPRESS Improves Stroke Care

March 28, 2017

How quickly stroke patients receive treatment is the focus of The Permanente Medical Group’s Stroke EXPRESS program, which was highlighted recently in a Modern Healthcare feature. Stroke EXPRESS – protocols for treating Kaiser Permanente members in Northern California – demonstrates…

Health Care Technology: Overhyped or Underutilized?

March 27, 2017

Federation Co-CEO Robert Pearl, MD, Talks Health IT Tools American health care is rapidly approaching the edge of a cliff, according to Robert Pearl, MD, co-CEO of The Permanente Federation, in a March 23 talk at the 2017 Splash Health…

Sameer Awsare, MD, Addresses Rising Drug Prices

March 2, 2017

Sameer Awsare, MD, associate executive director of The Permanente Medical Group, spoke at last fall’s Southern California edition of the State of Reform Health Policy Conference, drawing attention to the growing problem of rising drug prices. The State of Reform…

Kaiser Permanente, a National Leader in Integrated Health Care and Coverage, Completes Acquisition of Group Health Cooperative in Washington State

February 1, 2017

Kaiser Permanente’s acquisition of Group Health Cooperative became final today, and with that, Group Health’s more than 651,000 members and more than 6,000 employees in Washington are now part of the largest integrated health system in the nation.

California PMGs Receive Top Marks For Providing High-Quality Care to Medicare Advantage Patients

January 26, 2017

The Permanente Medical Groups serving Kaiser Permanente members and patients in Northern and Southern California each received 5-star ratings for overall performance.

Maria Carrasco, MD, MPH, Appointed to Health Equity Task Force

January 17, 2017

The task force’s goals include identifying opportunities, gaps and strategic alliances related to research, policy, and community transformation.

Kalvin Yu, MD: Protecting people from the misuse of antibiotics

January 10, 2017

As the chief integration officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Kalvin Yu, MD, leads groundbreaking research on antibiotic stewardship programs, aimed at reducing the risk of antibiotic resistance among pathogens and stopping the rise of dangerous “superbugs.”