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UH Hilo gets Beacon Grant

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · healthcare, information technology, infrastructure, technology Hawaii healthcare

The University of Hawaii at Hilo, College of Pharmacy will be one of the recipients of the Beacon Community program to build and strengthen health IT infrastructure and health information exchange capabilities. UH-Hilo’s $16M grant was part of an overall grant totaling $220M from the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Hawaii Island was [...]

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Activity Monitors

March 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · healthcare, technology Hawaii healthcare, unconferenz

At this year’s Unconferenz 2010 there were many session topics that warrant their own blog post but this one I will put to keyboard, so to speak. We usually have a gadget session and talk about smartphones, Kindles, Livescribe, etc. This year the gadget that caught my attention was the personal activity monitor. Bob Lew [...]

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EUTF Open Enrollment

October 25th, 2009 · 21 Comments · healthcare

*** In the interest of full disclosure, I am employed by HMSA and the following post will be biased toward my employer. HMSA has not paid or asked me to write this post. The above chart is from the Open Enrollment Reference Guide.
The Employer-Union Health Benefit Trust Fund (EUTF) will offer Open Enrollment (OE) for [...]

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