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Date:11/7/2007

lth record, My health manager. The largest civilian electronic health record project in the United States, KP HealthConnect now supports 6.5 million of its 8.7 million members with ambulatory/outpatient electronic medical records. Currently, the system enables more than 275,000 secure online messages a month sent between Kaiser Permanente patients, doctors and clinicians.

"We are investing in KP HealthConnect because we realize that the information needs of caregivers are changing at a phenomenal pace," said KFHP/H Chairman and Chief Executive Officer George Halvorson. "KP HeathConnect will not only give us the best healthcare database in the world, it also will give us the capacity to collect extensive data to meet our caregivers' information needs so that they can serve patients better."

As a not-for-profit organization, KFHP/H's revenues fund numerous community benefit programs, which provide direct health care coverage for uninsured families, community-based health partnerships and research and collaboration with community health organizations. One such example is the organization's long-standing support for the safety net -- institutions that provide care to the underserved and uninsured in our communities. Over the past year, KFHP/H has been instrumental in providing low-income, uninsured patients suffering from diabetes with the proper medications designed to prevent related heart attacks and strokes. In 2006, the organization spent $807 million on community benefits.

As he has emphasized in the past, Halvorson added, "The people of Kaiser Permanente are here to make lives better. Our integrated care delivery system can achieve success through the commitment of our physicians, nurses, caregivers, and all of our employees who work together to serve our customers, members and communities."

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this media release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and
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SOURCE Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. Copyright©2007 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

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