All through his profession, Kevin L. Hart has seen how know-how and digital well being information can rework well being care.
These instruments assist sufferers keep in contact with their docs, assist preserve information correct, and make medical companies sooner and simpler.
Sadly, not everybody has entry to this know-how.
Hart is working to vary that.
To honor Kevin Hart for his dedication to creating know-how extra accessible to communities in want, Kaiser Permanente named him the winner of our 2025 George Halvorson Group Well being Management Award.
The award is known as for Kaiser Permanente’s chairman and CEO from 2002 to 2013. It honors excellent management in bettering the well being of our communities. One present or former Kaiser Permanente worker wins the award annually.
Connecting group well being clinics
Hart is the senior vp of strategic growth and know-how at Kaiser Permanente. In 2017, Hart met Ralph Silber, who was then the chief govt officer of the Group Well being Heart Community.
The Group Well being Heart Community is made up of 8 group well being facilities working websites within the San Francisco Bay Space. These nonprofit clinics provide reasonably priced care to individuals with low incomes, individuals with out insurance coverage, and folks with public insurance coverage like Medicaid.
Silber and his group wanted assist getting began with a brand new digital well being document system.
They contacted Kaiser Permanente and OCHIN, the place Hart was a board member. OCHIN is a nonprofit group that gives know-how and assist to group well being facilities, clinics, and different well being care suppliers.
Hart instantly understood the challenges and offered experience and workers assist. He additionally helped safe funding.
By the point the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, a lot of the well being facilities within the Group Well being Heart Community have been utilizing the brand new digital well being document system. This allowed them to take care of sufferers remotely.
“Docs and nurses have been capable of proceed caring for our sufferers, a lot of whom have been very sick,” Silber mentioned. “This device actually allowed us to deal with our communities once they wanted us most.”
The well being facilities within the Group Well being Heart Community serve greater than 285,000 sufferers.
“It’s unimaginable to consider the lives that have been saved as a result of these clinics might do digital care,” Hart mentioned. “I’m honored and blessed to be part of a mission that had that sort of impression.”
Inspiring future leaders
Hart has additionally labored with and been a board member of The Hidden Genius Venture, a nonprofit that helps younger males achieve abilities and mentorship in know-how.
Based in Oakland in 2012, this system has expanded to cities throughout the nation. Hart has seen how this system can change lives.
“Now we have graduates from this system who’ve gone to school and who are actually entrepreneurs themselves,” Hart mentioned. “These younger geniuses go effectively past what any of us might have imagined. It’s fantastic to observe them develop and thrive.”
As a part of the annual award, Hart acquired a $10,000 contribution to a charity of his selection.
He chosen OCHIN and The Hidden Genius Venture.
