Kaiser Permanente Wins Inaugural Brill Award for Efficient IT

OAKLAND, Calif., May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente has received one of the first Uptime Institute Brill Awards for Efficient IT. The award recognizes the health care organization's efficiency in capital deployment, technology, design, operations and overall management of its data centers and IT operations.

"It says a lot that our data centers continue to shine for our leadership in energy efficiency," said Phil Fasano, executive vice president and chief information officer, Kaiser Permanente. "We understand how the health of our environment directly affects individual and community health, and we're so pleased that the Uptime Institute recognizes our commitment to improving the health of the communities we serve."

Go to http://bit.ly/1iUYOcV to view an infographic illustrating the benefits of Kaiser Permanente's efficient IT.

The Uptime Institute is a third-party research, education and consulting organization focused on improving data center performance and efficiency through collaboration and innovation. The Brill Awards attracted 100 entries from companies in 19 countries. Kaiser Permanente was one of 18 organizations to receive the recognition.  

"Kaiser Permanente's data center management team has demonstrated leadership and commitment to sustainability that will have a lasting impact on Kaiser Permanente's members, the Kaiser Permanente team, the IT industry and the data profession," said Pitt Turner, Uptime Institute's executive director emeritus. "We are proud to recognize Kaiser Permanente for embracing a culture of continuous improvement and shared team goals, in addition to sharing its best practices so that other organizations can learn from Kaiser Permanente's efforts."

Kaiser Permanente was distinguished by its extensive organizational collaboration. Interdisciplinary teams from across the organization have identified and implemented a number of initiatives that improve and sustain energy efficiency in the organization's national data centers.

Since 2008, Kaiser Permanente's data centers have:

• Avoided more than 100 gigawatt hours of electrical energy usage, equivalent to more than 6,200 average homes' energy use for one year.
• Avoided approximately $10.5 million in electrical utility costs.
• Prevented nearly 53,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from reaching the atmosphere, equivalent to taking more than 11,000 passenger cars off the road for one year.

Thanks to its focus on energy efficiency, Kaiser Permanente is using nearly 20 percent less electricity to cool its national data center facilities and computer room floors than it did five years ago. The health care organization also has the only LEED Platinum certified data center in the world for building operation and management. Three of Kaiser Permanente's data centers are Energy Star rated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The health care organization also received the Uptime Institute's 2011 Green Enterprise IT Award for developing a new way to measure optimized cooling in data centers and was ranked No.1 on IDG's Computerworld magazine Top 12 List of Green-IT Organizations that same year.

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About Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve approximately 9.1 million members in eight states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information, go to: kp.org/share.

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