GEORGE HALVORSON

About

George Halvorson is Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Halvorson is one of the most important leaders in the middle of the health care debate. He has over 30 years of health care management experience at Kaiser and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. At Kaiser, George continues to revolutionize the nation’s largest hospital system and nonprofit health plan. He has written several health care reform books, including his latest release Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User’s Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care. Kaiser Permanente serves more than 8.6 million members and generates over $40 billion in annual revenue.

Websites

Health Care Will Not Reform Itself Homepage Kaiser Permanente News Center

Links

No Health Care Reform Without an Info Revolution Health care reform hinges on technology Can Information Technology Cut Healthcare Costs?

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TJMcCue: DNA sampling, studies at Garfield Center. Technology in action. Improving healthcare. http://bit.ly/4ik6H5 #hpio

NOTCOT: i would love to have reminders to take meds/etc via email/sms/twitter #hpio http://bit.ly/KClzT

harrymccracken: Halvorson responding to a comment I made: People think of computerization as "magical" healthcare fix. It's not. #hpio http://bit.ly/KClzT

Xyryx: #hpio http://bit.ly/KClzT gh is spot-on completely! mashups between human accountability in actions based on data>info>knowledge>action

PointClickCare: Long-Term Care has vendor-specific interoperable eRecords, how far off is a national DB? #hpio http://bit.ly/KClzT

Mmarshall: Kaiser demonstrates how technology radically reshaped the system to provide a higher level of care for everyone, says Peter Hopkins #hpio