Kramer, who came under fire at eHealth for runaway spending by consultants and her $317,000 severance package, is executive director of a team bringing electronic health records to the UCLA Health System\u2019s patients in four hospitals and clinics with 2,000 doctors. She is working as a consultant, and is not on staff.<\/p>\n
Kramer is part of what the University of California at Los Angeles billed as \u201can exceptional team of experts\u201d in an online publication Monday.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
When Kramer left eHealth as chief executive in the spring of 2008, her golden parachute fuelled outrage from opposition parties and the public.<\/p>\n
It was later revealed Kramer gave a speech that cost $25,000 to write and that eHealth gave out $16 million in contracts without competitive bidding in efforts to get electronic health records in place as quickly as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Californian Tax Payers might just be … OfficiallyScrewed.<\/p>\n
h\/t to Shirley for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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