Kaiser Permanente maintains struggling EMR system ’spectacular’
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, March 13, 2007
While California regulators investigate problems with the installation of Kaiser Permanente's $4 billion electronic medical record system, employees involved in the installation project say progress is "spectacular," the American Medical News reports.
The health system has been working on its EMR system since last fall, after an e-mail sent out by an employee said tests showed that the system underwent frequent changes.
At the same, the project's expense continue to escalate. The project began with an initial estimate of $1.8 billion in 2003. It is currently estimated to cost $4 billion.
Public reports show that the system is available only 80% of the time, which experts say makes the system "inoperable," the report says. Read the entire American Medical News report here.
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