Kaiser faces $7B loss

Just a note to the editor, your synopsis says that Kaiser's Epic System costs $2 million. but the SF Chronicle article says it costs $3 billion.

"Halvorson has since defended the $3 million Epic Systems EMR installation." - wrong messurement unit. Try billion.

You mentioned 180,000 Kaiser employees in this article; one other newspaper stated 130,000 employees. Kaiser management always quote more than 100,000 employees in its public communications. I'm completely confused with all of these significant discrepancies as I don't believe there are more than 100,000 current Kaiser employees.

Kaiser has more than 100,000 employess and yes, the system did cost over 3 billion dollars. If you think about the market share of this organization that spans from Oregon, Washington State, Colorado, California, Ohio, Georgia and Washington DC the membership numbers and costs associated with implementing a universal information system to support their health records is fair. There has never been an implementation of this scale before so therefore, there will be never seen before costs and timeline. I do agree that things could be more efficient, but hell this is a not for profit organization who really cannot attract the best talent through high salaries and exorbiant bonuses...