Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-08T10:59:38 RDF description of Credibility and creativity: a conversation with Kaiser Permanente's George C. Halvorson - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn18561 Minnesota Health Affairs <p>In 2002 Kaiser Permanente's board surprised the industry by reaching outside its organization and selecting a nonphysician leader, George C. Halvorson, then CEO of ΏͺΤΖΜεΣύ of Minneapolis. In this interview Halvorson talks about returning to Kaiser's strengths--its sixty-year-plus history of integrated health care organization and its power base along the Pacific Coast--and about how he and his physician colleagues intend to leverage clinical information technology to improve their subscribers' health. Halvorson also discusses the new Medicare prescription drug legislation, the sources of the current run-up in health costs, and how he intends to position Kaiser for future growth.<p> public Organizational Case Studies 19076 Cost Sharing 12248 document-rn18561 Economic Competition Credibility and creativity: a conversation with Kaiser Permanente's George C. Halvorson 4 23 *Administrative Personnel 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 10.1377/hlthaff.23.4.133 Organizations, Nonprofit/organization & administration Health Maintenance Organizations/economics/*organization & administration Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Interviews as Topic