In a recent article for the Hospital Peer Review newsletter, Michael Kanter, MD, chair of clinical science and professor at the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, shares his insights on how Kaiser Permanente is improving clinical quality by accelerating…
In a recent opinion piece for the Annals of Internal Medicine, Permanente Federation co-CEO Edward M. Ellison, MD, highlights the importance of addressing the total cost of physician burnout. In “Beyond the Economics of Burnout,” Dr. Ellison writes in support…
There is raised awareness regarding physician wellness “and it is absolutely imperative that we start upstream,” says Edward M. Ellison, MD, executive medical director and chairman at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, underscoring the importance of providing tools to…
Ryan Caldeiro, MD, assistant medical director for addiction medicine at Washington Permanente Medical Group, commented on how doctors and patients struggle with the use of benzodiazepine – a class of psychoactive drugs that is often prescribed for anxiety – in…
Kaiser Permanente’s recent launch of Thrive Local – the most comprehensive, far-reaching social health network of its kind – promises to improve the health of individual patients and impact social determinants of health on a grand scale, according to Imelda…
Richard S. Isaacs, MD, FACS, co-chief executive officer of The Permanente Federation, is quoted in a new Healthcare Marketing Report story about why the eight Permanente Medical Groups – whose nearly 23,000 physicians comprise one of the largest consortiums of…
The electronic health record (EHR) helped mobilize patients’ records online but has become a point of frustration for physicians who spend more and more time on the system inputting information than they spend having face-to-face interactions with patients. Rahul Parikh,…