Shortly after a Kaiser Permanente project supervisor circulated an internal e-mail to more than 180,000 employees denouncing the company's electronic health record system and the alleged financial waste associated with it, Kaiser's CIO has resigned.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has been praised as being advanced of its peers when it comes to rolling out its large-scale EMR system, dubbed HealthConnect.
But in his e-mail to fellow Kaiser employees, project manager Justen Deal alleges that the company is stalled and that the current system is not scalable.
He argues that Kaiser's EMR system, based on technology from Epic Systems, has reached its limit and cannot handle current user demands let alone a further rollout.
"Can we continue to support the existing users? No. And we can't continue to roll out the system," said Deal in an interview.
Read the full story on eWeek.com: Kaiser EHR System Is Stalled, Employee Says
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