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UH Hilo gets Beacon Grant

May 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · 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 one [...]

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EUTF Revisited

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · technology Hawaii healthcare

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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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) [...]

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