Newsmakers

The Northwest Permanente president and CEO writes that now is the time to leverage lessons learned during the pandemic to implement environmentally responsible behaviors.

The co-director of Kaiser Permanente’s Sports Medicine Fellowship commented on research findings that more-active people with COVID-19 were less likely to be hospitalized or die from the illness.

The Northwest Permanente president and CEO says that despite an increase in female medical school graduates, in practice unconscious biases prevent women from advancing to leadership positions.

Andrew Liu, DO, hospitalist with The Permanente Medical Group, tells NPR about how he adapted Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “My Shot” to put a hip spin on promoting COVID-19 vaccination.

MedCity News quotes The Permanente Federation co-CEO about pandemic challenges that spurred innovation.

Report explores 17 questions that patients should be asking at a doctor’s visit.

The medical director for the Kaiser Permanente’s Excellence in Cancer Care program says doctors have worked aggressively to ensure that patients get screened safely during the pandemic.

The Permanente Federation co-CEO calls for more post-pandemic technological and structural innovation during a virtual panel.

National Permanente Quality Leader Kate Koplan, MD, tells Managed Healthcare Executive that patient centricity and physician leadership facilitated a dramatic increase in same-day discharges of total hip and knee replacement patients.

The Permanente emergency medicine physician offers her first-hand account of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic across 8 states.