Founded in 1945, Kaiser is recognized as one of America’s
leading healthcare providers and nonprofit health plans. Its
mission is to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare services
and to improve the health of 8.6 million members in nine
states and the District of Columbia. Medical teams are supported
by industry-leading technology advances and tools for
health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the art care
delivery, and chronic disease management.
In mid-2010, every medical facility in its health system
was connected to Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, the
largest private sector electronic medical records (EMR) system
in the world. The development and implementation of KP
HealthConnect took ten years to build and represented a
$4-billion-dollar strategic investment for Kaiser