Bytemarks

En route on its mission: Pacific Partnership 2010, the USNS Mercy docked in Pearl Harbor to pick up supplies and volunteers from Hawaii, before heading off to Guam. The weekend stopover also allowed ship personnel to spend a brief moment in Hawaii. But judging from the amount of visitors filing through the ship, there was [...]

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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 one [...]

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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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A couple of days ago this video about the current EUTF Open Enrollment surfaced on YouTube. I got alerted to it by an email from a fellow co-worker at HMSA. The message was clearly pro-HMSA. The video was a montage of clips from a variety of sources including HMSA’s current ads on television, a Common [...]

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This past Wednesday’s, June 18 big announcement at HMSA hit all the major media in Hawaii. HMSA, in partnership with American Well and Microsoft HealthVault will offer online health services to the residents of Hawaii. The Star-Bulletin had an article by Kristen Constillio that went into good detail about what the service will entail. The [...]

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