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After months of being in a holding pattern, Kaiser Permanente has hired a new, permanent top technology leader to stabilize its troubled IT organization.

Philip Fasano, former CEO of Capital Sourcing Group, is now vice president and chief information officer. He takes over from Bruce Turkstra, who served as interim IT chief after Cliff Dodd resigned in November. Dodd left practically overnight after a …

University of Chicago Hospitals are planning a $70 million upgrade to their 1990s-era clinical information system. Physicians and administrators with UC's Phoenix Project, which will take place over five years, chose software from Epic Systems to replace the previous Oacis technology, a decision which took about a year. (If I were them, I'd have a nice long talk with Kaiser's Justen Deal about Epic's alleged scalability problems. By this point, though, I'm sure the Epic salesguys have …

> So how much downtime did Kaiser's Epic EMR actually experience? To what extent was KP's Citrix infrastructure to blame? Check out this interview with Justen Deal--and some very lively follow-up commentary--to learn more. Blog

>  If this Associated Press report …

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