Kaiser, taking the pulse with RFID | CIO Sessions from ZDNet

13 Minute video discussion with Phil Fasano, the CIO of Kaiser Permanente who came from the financial industry...he is fairly new with this position...Kaiser spends 3 billion dollars a year on IT...speaks on the entire paperless medical records in use presently...addresses mobile devices as they are already mobile and moving toward a more advanced mobile platform..physicians have access via a VPN to view at home... he talks about advanced analytics...otherwise known as business intelligence..with substantial investments going on and more to come...delivering real time health care...Internet presence is a must...and talks about SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE...definitely in their future...and WEB 2.0...social networking seen as a real opportunity to leverage data relative to healthcare...developing "social" interactions presently...he's sees the ROI as being huge...good interview and well worth the watch...BD

In a CIO Vision Series interview, Phil Fasano CIO of Kaiser Permanente talks to ZDNet’s editor-in-chief Dan Farber about transforming the United States’ ailing health care system by making information more accessible online to its 9 millions members. He also discusses new technology innovations the company is developing to improve patient care in the areas of Web 2.0, analytics and RFID.