3. Research the annual rate of medical errors in one or two countries. What are several reasons for these errors? How does KP HealthConnect help to reduce medical errors? Founded in 1945, Kaiser is recognized as one of America’s leading healthcare providers and nonprofit health plans. Its mission is to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare services and to improve the health of 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Medical teams are supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the art care delivery, and chronic disease management.

In mid-2010, every medical facility in its health system was connected to Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, the largest private sector electronic medical records (EMR) system in the world. The development and implementation of KP HealthConnect took ten years to build and represented a

$4-billion-dollar strategic investment for Kaiser.