Hawaiʻi will receive at least $1.7 billion as part of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package approved by Congress on December 27, 2021. Read the full story at the Ka Wai Ola news website….
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Learn how the University of Hawaiʻi is leading a new project to create a telehealth network that will increase access to women’s healthcare and imaging services in American Samoa. Read the full story at the UH Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health website….
HOPE Services Hawaiʻi, a non-profit organization based in Hilo, was awarded CARES Act funding for telehealth and broadband access to service the homeless community on Hawaiʻi Island. Read the full story at the Big Island Gazette….
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) announced that Hawaiʻi will receive $1,671,741 in new federal funding to help the state respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in rural and underserved communities. Read the press release from Brian Schatz….
A short and informative video on “Telehealth Best Practices” developed by the Hawaii Department of Health Genomics Section (3 mins)…
The National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers have released a COVID-19 telehealth toolkit. Its purpose is to assist organizations with the implementation of telehealth….
Conventional attempts to remedy the physicians shortage in Hawai‘i have failed. Now we face a whole new philosophy in how medicine is delivered—including trading face time with doctors for video consultations. Read the full story from Honolulu Magazine….
The CONNECT Act is reintroduced for a third time now with the support of more than 120 organizations. The legislation aims to remove Medicare restrictions on telehealth, thereby increasing telehealth access and further advancing telehealth as a core health care delivery model….
Pohnpei Conducts First Live Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Consultation by Video TeleconferenceBy: Christina Higa, Co-Director, Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center Pohnpei Hospital’s Dr. Payne Perman makes history again! Today he conducted a gastrointestinal endoscopy in Pohnpei while a panel of experts from the Australian and New Zealand Gastroenterology International Training Association…
Pacific Island Health Care Providers launched the first of a series of distance learning sessions for Pacific Island providers on May 18th. The topic was gastroenterology, with a specific focus on biopsy for suspected colon cancers. The discussion was facilitated by Dr. Chris Hair, Gastroenterologist, from ANZGITA, Epworth Private Hospital and…