The expansion of telehealth services to improve patient access and outcomes and reduce health care cost is one of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) top three “Congressional Asks” for 2014. The official release states that HIMSS works with stakeholders to develop their organizational priorities and recommendations…
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Telemedicine, much to the delight of some health industry observers, is a prominent part of legislation allocating $16.3 billion to overhaul the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The proposed bill, which sailed through the House on a 420-5 vote, requires that all VA mobile vet centers and mobile medical…
The Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center (PBTRC) sat down with Dr. Matthew Koenig, Associate Medical Director of Neurocritical Care at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, HI to discuss the Hawaii Stroke Network and how it has improved stroke care in Hawaiʻi. In the video below, Dr. Koenig discusses…
On June 30, 2014, Governor Neil Abercrombie of the State of Hawaii signed into law Senate Bill 2469: Relating to Telehealth. This bill requires equivalent reimbursement for services, including behavioral health services, provided through telehealth as for the same services provided through face-to-face contact between a healthcare provider and…
Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and General Manager of the Health & Life Sciences Group in the Intel Data Center Group, gave a presentation at the Queen’s Conference Center on April 11, 2014. The title of his presentation was “Collaborative Care Models: Building a Seamless Health Care System and…
The Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center hosted the Spring 2014 Telehealth Resource Center meeting in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi at the John A. Burns School Of Medicine (JABSOM) on March 4-5, 2014. All fourteen HRSA funded telehealth resource centers were represented at this meeting. The meeting provided an opportunity for the TRCs…
The Hawaiʻi Healthcare Project, a public-private partnership between the Office of the Governor and Hawaiʻi healthcare industry stakeholders, organized the 2013 Hawaiʻi Healthcare Summit at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. A major focus was on the State of Hawaiʻi’s roadmap for healthcare transformation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Telehealth was…
Deborah Peters and Christina Higa attended the fall 2013 Telehealth Resource Center strategic planning meeting in Tucson, Arizona hosted by the SouthWest Telehealth Resource Center. All fourteen resource centers were represented. Major highlights include the agreement for the collective Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) to be represented collectively as the National Consortium…
Christina Higa, PBTRC Associate Director, presented a telehealth update at the 13th Annual Hawaii Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Conference, “Managing Change, Cultivating Excellence.” The outline of her presentation included an introduction of the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers and the Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center; highlights of…
Federal authorities have earmarked $1.9 million in new funding for the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers, paving the way for an additional five regional centers and one national center. Read the full story at healthcarefinancenews.com….