HP Hosts Live Webcast with Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--HP today announced it is hosting a webcast discussion with George Halvorson, chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente, as part of a series of web interviews called Input/Output.

The interactive discussion, which allows listeners to actively engage in the conversation through Twitter, will explore the area of health care reform, and the impact of IT in care-improvement programs. In this session, scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 18, Halvorson will delve into Kaiser Permanente’s efforts to provide electronic connectivity between doctors and patients and how more than 6 million “e-visits,” instead of face-to-face clinical visits, has had significant results on patient care.

Kaiser Permanente’s efforts show how transforming a traditional business model through technology innovation can generate a workflow that benefits both the enterprise and the customer.

What: Live webcast discussion

Where: HP INPUT / OUTPUT webcast

Who: George Halvorson, chief executive officer, Kaiser Permanente

When: Nov. 18 at 2:30 p.m. ET

Questions can be submitted prior to the session on the @io_mod Twitter handle with the #hpio hashtag.

This webcast is the second in the Input/Output series; the first Input/Output webcast featured Chris Anderson, editor in chief of “WIRED Magazine” and author of best-selling books “Free!” and “The Long Tail.”

HP’s Input/Output sessions bring together the foremost thinkers in economics, management, technology, culture and more to discuss the impact of the “new normal” on the business. Input/Output houses major discussions – generating a conversation and flow of ideas that will lead to even bigger ideas.

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