I saw this article on ReadWriteWeb the other day regarding how personal health records are not being adopted
The most interesting part about that article is not the article itself but the comments that were left by its readers. As an individual working in the health care domain, I have a chance to get some training at Epic System (One of the major vendors of Health care IT). During one of my trips to Wisconsin, I met an entire airplane of people all from Kaisers. I was simply in awe by the amount of resources Kaiser is pouring into health care IT (Epic). Will it work? I believe it. Yet, it will take the same scale similar to what Kaiser is implementing.
Their system will in synced across California in which you can walk into any Kaiser and they will have your health information stored and ready. By building a system from ground up, they can remove the doubt regarding information is tied to a specific hospital location. In this sense, Kaiser is definitely a company to watch as they have enough resources and hospitals to be viewed as a microcosm of our healthcare system.