Yesterday on a tour of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health (@KPTotalHealth), one of my esteemed guests, Larry Wolf, Health IT Strategist at Kindred Healthcare and Co-Chair, Certification and Adoption Workgroup, Health IT Policy Committee asked about the adoption curves I showed for Kaiser Permanente’s personal health record, kp.org.
Because of that and since I’m giving a guest lecture as part of my colleague Carol Cain, PhD’s (@ccain) course: “Digital Medicine: Designing IT Innovations that Improve Healthcare Stanford University Biomedical Informatics 207” later this month, I needed to update them anyway, so here they are.
The totals are out of a member population of 9.3 million members, with the average practice having 67% of the eligible members (Internet users over 18 years of age) registered to use the portal. Enjoy, and remember, it is possible to engage patients.