title: The Kaiser Permanente IT transformation.
abstract: Kaiser Permanente's major health IT initiative, KP Health-Connect, will integrate all patient information in a single system linking medical information with billing, scheduling, and registration data throughout the organization. Healthcare financial leaders whose organizations want to undertake a similar initiative should: Ensure dedicated financial leadership on the team, Maintain a collaborative relationship with other team members, Champion the project, Plan for contingencies, Develop new processes, Provide financial oversight for every phase of the project.
authors.affiliation: Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, Calif, USA. brian.raymond@kp.org
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Raymond
mesh_terms: D005376:Financial Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007256:Information Systems; D007857:Leadership; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States