Designing the Perfect Healthcare Clinic Fast Company, May 1, 2010 On a November afternoon, a wheelchair-bound woman rolls into Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center in San Leandro, California, for a checkup. "Watch out for your arms, okay?" the nurse says as…
Robotic Legs Among Items Tested at Kaiser Labs San Francisco Chronicle, January 26, 2011 Ted Kilroy's jowls quivered as he gripped the high-tech canes that held him erect while a pair of robotic braces lifted his paralyzed legs, one after…
A Breath of Fresh Air for Health Care New York Times, December 13, 2009 “Optimistic” may be about the last word you’d choose to describe the health care industry. Or maybe “innovative.” But the work now being undertaken by Kaiser…
Innovation on the Front Lines Harvard Business Review, September 10, 2010 Chris McCarthy shows up for an early morning interview wearing raspberry colored scrubs. Later he’ll head to one of Kaiser Permanente’s Bay Area hospitals to watch nurses at work.…
East Bay High School Students Get Hands-On Experience with Healthcare Jobs NBC Bay Area News, May 4, 2017 More than 300 high school students from across the East Bay scrubbed in to "operate" on medical dummies at Kaiser Permanente's training…
A Prescription for the Future How Hospitals Could Be Rebuilt, Better Than Before The Economist, April 8, 2017 In a nondescript part of Cleveland, in a room known as the bunker, a doctor, nurses and medical technicians gather to keep…
Where the Hospital of the Future isn’t a Hospital at all LinkedIn, March 6, 2017 Leo Montgomery is out shopping with his wife Rosemary when he starts to have trouble breathing. A biosensor he was wearing also sounds the alarm.…
Care Anywhere Your Imagination Takes You Inside KP, July 27, 2016 By imagining a world of member experiences, KP is preparing to transform the way we deliver care and approach total health. Meet Marcus, an uninsured 27-year-old who's thinking about…
Taking Bids on the Hospital of the Future Bloomberg Businessweek, July 22, 2016 This is the future as imagined by Kaiser Permanente, which has built a mock-up of Leo’s home in a test facility not far from its Oakland, Calif.,…
Bringing Ideas to Life in Three Dimensions Kaiser Permanente Share, June 28, 2016 Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center celebrates a decade of innovation. “There’s something magical that happens when you build and test a prototype with your end users, rather than sitting…